Article on Tax Advice For the Second Obama Administration

Paul L. Caron (Charles Hartsock Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law) recently published an article entitled, Tax Advice for the Second Obama Adminstration, 40 Pepperdine L. Rev. 5 (2013). Provided below is the abstract from SSRN:

Twenty-five of the nation’s leading tax academics, practitioners, journalists, and public intellectuals gathered in Malibu, California on the Friday before President Obama’s second inauguration to plead for tax reform. The papers published in this issue of the Pepperdine Law Review provide very different prescriptions for America’s tax ills. But there is a unanimous diagnosis that the country’s tax system is sick indeed. A re-elected president’s inauguration offers a particularly propitious moment to put politics aside and embark on a treatment plan. If our lawmakers are interested in healing our tax wounds, the ideas presented in these pages offer a good place to begin. They run the gamut from relatively minor procedures to total transplantation. But all would improve the health of our current tax system.