Update regarding 2024 NYU Tax Policy Colloquium scheduling plans. danshaviro.blogspot.com/2023/12/2024-n…

Musical reflections danshaviro.blogspot.com/2024/02/two-po…

Opportunity knocks. danshaviro.blogspot.com/2024/03/is-thi…

TONIGHT: Daniel Shaviro and Tim O'Brien join Lawrence O'Donnell on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.

I just appeared on The Last Word w/ Lawrence O'Donnell to discuss Trump taxable income from the RNC paying his legal fees. I said the only slam dunk case for net taxable income (i.e., no offsetting deduction) is in the Jean Carroll case, although there are weaker cases for more.

Here is my sequence on MSNBC last night. msnbc.com/the-last-word/…

.Daniel Shaviro (NYU Law) demonstrates that, for early to mid-20th C. libertarian thinkers, policies promoting economic equality might be seen complementary to, rather than in conflict with, support for free market capitalism and limited govt. intervention promarket.org/2024/04/01/hen…

I just posted this piece on a libertarian-affiliated U of Chicago website. Based on a 2013 article that I wrote concerning Henry Simons. promarket.org/2024/04/01/hen…

I have just posted on SSRN a new short paper, Ten Observations About Income Inequality. Available at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… . I wrote it for a (mainly) European tax law professors' conference in Belgium earlier this month, and it will be coming out in a conference volume. (1/3)

Here is the first half of the paper's abstract: What is income (or other material) inequality, how should it be measured, and why should tax policymakers care about it? The answers to these questions are contested and ambiguous. (2/3)

And here's most of the 2nd half: [The paper] finds that more important than any particular conclusion [about income inequality] is the need for continuing methodological pluralism, agnosticism, and humility in how one thinks about it. (3/3)

Initial rapid response to the Supreme Court decision in the Moore v. United States tax case. danshaviro.blogspot.com/2024/06/good-n…

What a surprise. The Supreme Court waited until the last possible moment to issue an opinion apparently crafted to ensure further Trump trial delays.

Recently posted by me in SSRN, Ten Observations About Income Inequality, papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

My forthcoming short piece in the National Tax Journal, "Lawyers, Economists, and Tax Scholarship" (loosely based on my Holland Medal speech) can be accessed online at journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.10…

Congrats to Hilary Hoynes, highly deserving winner of the National Tax Association's 2024 Daniel M. Holland Medal. ntanet.org/2024/08/hillar…

New blogpost about Chat GPT and my novel Getting It. danshaviro.blogspot.com/2024/08/chat-g…

Schedule for the 2024 NYU Tax Policy Colloquium. Important change for this year: we'll be on Zoom as well as live, as a change in NY State Bar Association rules now permits Zoom attendees to participate live. danshaviro.blogspot.com/2024/08/2024-n…

My National Tax Journal article, "Lawyers, Economists, and Tax Scholarship has now been posted online by the NTJ. If you have NTJ access (as it's behind a paywall), it's at journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

Shortened NTJ abstract: In pub finance scholarship, lawyers have comparative advantages (as well as disadvantages) vs. economists. These can help lawyers to make unique contributions that are not limited to their deploying institutional knowledge about the law and legal practice.