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DES MOINES LAWYER PUBLISHES LAW REVIEW PIECE ON ‘MURPHY’ ISSUES
The TaxProf notes that John Fatino of the Whitfield and Eddy law firm has published “The Tax Treatment of Verdicts and Settlements Following the Adoption of the Jobs Creation Act of 2004: Paradise...
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TAX COURT REJECTS ‘MURPHY’-TYPE ARGUMENT, IMPOSES PENALTIES
Murphy’s law doesn’t work in the Tax Court. Marcia Green was a non-tenured Humanities instructor at San Francisco State University. She filed a discrimination complaint after she was turned down for a...
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‘MURPHY’ GOES OUT WITH A WHIMPER
The “National Whistleblower Center” reports that the Federal appellate panel that issued the spectacular Murphy decision — the one ruling the taxation of personal injury damages unconstitutional — has...
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MORE ON ‘MURPHY’
The TaxProf has his trademark comprehensive roundup of the Federal Circuit’s reversal of its own decision exempting whistleblower damages from federal taxes. Our report on the new decision is here.
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TAX PROFESSORS WEIGH IN ON MURPHY
The Tax Prof has rounded up learned opinion on this week’s new Murphy decision (update: link fixed). Bryan Camp of Texas Tech focuses on something I had noticed: how the court blames the government’s...
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MURPHY IS DEAD
The Federal Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit has turned down the appeal for the rehearing of the Murphy case. That means the case, which at one time seem poised to disrupt decades of federal tax law...
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MURPHY DEAD TO THE TAX COURT
The Federal Appeals Court for the DC Circuit buried it’s controversial Murphy decision over the summer. Before the DC court changed its mind, Murphy said emotional damages — and potentially many other...
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WHISTLEBLOWER MURPHY ASKS FOR SUPREME COURT HEARING
Marrita Murphy, the whistleblower who rocked the tax world when she won a since-reversed decision ruling that taxing her damage award was unconstitutional, has asked the Supreme Court to hear her case....
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GOVERNMENT FILES BRIEF OPPOSING SUPREME COURT REVIEW OF ‘MURPHY’ DECISION
The taxpayer in the controversial Murphy decision asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case. The TaxProf reports that the government has filed its reply brief to the request for review. The...
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MURPHY’S END
The dramatic life of the Murphy case came to a quiet end yesterday when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take the case. The U.S. Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit shocked the tax world with its...
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