Sanessa Griffiths of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP discusses the lack of diversity in the tax bar and recommends ways to fix it. This transcript has been edited for length and clarity. David D. Stewart: Welcome to the podcast. I’m David Stewart, editor in chief of Tax Notes Today International. This week: tax
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A Texas man, Lamar “Cory” Thompson, formerly of Chicago, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for mail fraud related to a scheme to fraudulently obtain tax refunds from the IRS. Thompson had the help of others in his scheme—only they didn’t all know it. According to court documents, from approximately June 2010 through
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First, the tax authorities targeted soda, plastics, and hazardous chemicals with excise taxes. Now they’re coming for fast-fashion companies like Shein and Temu. Imposing special taxes on mass-produced $16 party dresses? That seems like a lot of effort for some low-hanging fashion fruit. But the fruit may not be as poor quality as it appears
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From what we are told, sales of previously owned homes in the United States are at their lowest rate in 13 years, while the average sale price for a home in the US has risen in just the last three years from around $374,500 to around $513,400 today. While I’m not an expert in this
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