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14 Oct 2014, 12:59 pm
Victor Fleischer (San Diego) presents Curb Your Enthusiasm for Pigouvian Taxes at Columbia today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series hosted by Alex Raskolnikov, David Schizer, and Wojciech Kopczuk: Pigouvian (or "corrective") taxes have been proposed or enacted on dozens of products and activities that may be harmful... [read post]
3 Sep 2014, 1:50 pm
New York Times Dealbook: Court Challenge to New Inversion Rules Would Face Long Odds, by Victor Fleischer (San Diego): The Treasury Department is considering new regulations that would make corporate inversions less profitable. [read post]
26 Aug 2014, 11:00 am
New York Times Deal Book: In Burger King-Tim Hortons Deal, Consumer Reaction Could Be Key, by Victor Fleischer (San Diego): Before Burger King, there was Stanley Works. [read post]
21 Aug 2014, 3:05 am
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19 Aug 2014, 6:51 am
Victor Fleischer argues that the Treasury's regulatory authority would permit it to address unilaterally, not just inversions (as to which he says "[t]here is no question that Professor Shay gets the law right" concerning the Treasury's regulatory powers), but also the carried interest loophole for hedge fund managers.As I was quoted as saying in Fleischer's carried interest write-up, it should be no surprise that the Treasury is thinking… [read post]
14 Aug 2014, 1:47 pm
New York Times DealBook: Kinder Morgan Is Playing Tax Arbitrage With Itself, by Victor Fleischer (San Diego): Kinder Morgan’s plan to “roll up” its affiliated master limited partnerships into a single behemoth corporation makes little sense from a tax perspective. [read post]
8 Aug 2014, 3:55 am
New York Times Dealbook: How Obama Can Stop Corporate Expatriations, for Now, by Victor Fleischer (San Diego): The Obama administration has broad legal authority to stop corporate inversions. [read post]
3 Jul 2014, 2:05 am
Victor Fleischer (San Diego) & Nancy Staudt (Dean, Washington University), The Supercharged IPO, 66 Vand. [read post]
13 Jun 2014, 6:57 am
[Victor Fleischer, NYT "DealBook" via TaxProf; earlier on pen-and-phone executive orders here, etc.] [read post]
12 Jun 2014, 1:55 pm
New York Times Deal Book: How Obama Can Increase Taxes on Carried Interest, by Victor Fleischer (San Diego): President Obama could change the tax treatment of carried interest with a phone call to the Treasury Department. [read post]
12 Jun 2014, 12:02 pm
Victor Fleischer has a short piece in today's NY Times Dealbook suggesting that the Treasury Department, at the behest of the Obama Administration, could simply flex its regulatory muscles and eliminate the current practice whereby investment fund managers commonly treat compensation that takes the form of "carried interest" as yielding long-term capital gain that is taxed at only a 20 percent rate, rather than ordinary income that typically would face a 39.6… [read post]
20 May 2014, 9:05 pm
Barton Hinkle] Victor Fleischer: Pigouvian taxes on externalities beloved of economists, not so great as actionable policy [TaxProf] So economically and so environmentally destructive, it’s got to be federal ethanol policy [Hinkle] “Regulation Through Sham Litigation: The Sue and Settle Phenomenon” [Andrew Grossman for Heritage on a consent-decree pattern found in environmental regulation and far beyond; Josiah Neeley, The Federalist] Tweet Tags:… [read post]
15 May 2014, 3:00 am
New York Times DealBook: Why Hedge Funds Don’t Worry About Carried Interest Tax Rules, by Victor Fleischer (San Diego): Hedge fund managers don’t use the carried interest tax loophole. [read post]
7 May 2014, 1:00 pm
Victor Fleischer (San Diego), Tax Extenders: In Tax Legislation in the Contemporary U.S. [read post]
30 Apr 2014, 3:21 am
Following up on yesterday's post, Pfizer's Acquisition of AstraZeneca May Spur Rush of Tax-Avoidance Inversions: New York Times DealBook, How Tax Laws Distort the Pfizer Deal, by Victor Fleischer (San Diego): It’s tempting to look at the Pfizer deal simply as a loss for taxpayers in the United States. [read post]
17 Apr 2014, 12:05 pm
Victor Fleischer (San Diego) presents The Inferiority of Pigouvian Taxes at the University of Washington today as part of its Graduate Tax Program Colloquium Series: Pigouvian (or "corrective") taxes have become the favored policy instrument to address activities that cause negative externalities. [read post]
7 Apr 2014, 12:05 pm
Victor Fleischer (San Diego) presents Sweat Equity: Innovation, Equity Compensation, and the New Inequality at Pepperdine today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series hosted by Paul Caron: How people get paid—not just how much—explains the rising income inequality in the United States. [read post]
1 Apr 2014, 3:00 am
Victor Fleischer (San Diego), Curb Your Enthusiasm for Pigouvian Taxes: Pigouvian (or "corrective") taxes have been proposed or enacted on dozens of products and activities that may be harmful in excess: carbon, gasoline, fat, sugar, guns, cigarettes, alcohol, traffic, zoning, executive pay, and financial transactions, among others. [read post]
27 Mar 2014, 12:02 pm
Following up on Wedmesday's TaxProf Blog op-ed, Omri Marian (Florida): Bitcoin and Notice 2014-21: New York Times DealBook: Taxes Won’t Kill Bitcoin, but Tax Reporting Might, by Victor Fleischer (San Diego): Bitcoin is a digital representation of value, not a real currency, according to the latest pronouncement from the IRS.... [read post]
7 Feb 2014, 12:30 pm
Victor Fleischer (San Diego) presented The Inferiority of Pigouvian Taxes at UCLA yesterday as part of its Tax Policy and Public Finance Colloquium hosted by Jason Oh, Kirk Stark, and Alexander Wu: Pigouvian (or "corrective") taxes have become the favored policy instrument to address activities that cause negative externalities. [read post]
