Much, much, much has been said about Wednesday’s welcome letter from the University of Chicago dean of students to incoming first-years regarding campus speech, with a focus on the following paragraph:

Our commitment to academic freedom…

Newman’s Own Foundation is facing a massive tax bill at the end of this decade if it doesn’t sell off shares of its salad dressing, sauce, and snack empire and can’t convince Congress to change section 4943. Bills pending in the House and Senate would save Newman’s Own…

Senator Chuck Schumer is leading the charge to pass a tax break for U.S. Olympians who take home the gold, silver, or bronze. “After a successful and hard fought victory, it’s just not right for the U.S. to welcome…

Venture capitalist Alan Patricof has an op-ed in today’s New York Times titled “Close My Tax Loophole,” in which he argues that “my fellow venture capitalists and private equity investors should support the closing of the carried interest loophole . . . , even if it affects our…

The Chamber of Commerce filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Texas Thursday seeking to block the Treasury Department’s April 2016 inversion regulations. The Chamber says that the inversion regulations exceed Treasury’s…

[Note from DH: Guest poster David Feder, currently an associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles and formerly a law clerk to Judge Neil Gorsuch on the Tenth Circuit, has written a thoughtful response to my post last week criticizing Judge Gorsuch’s opinion in Gutierrez-Brizuela v…

Loss harvesting is an easy and entirely legal way for individuals with financial assets outside of their retirement accounts to reduce their tax liability. Here’s one way to do it (but far from the only way): (1) Buy shares of ten…