Tax Law
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You Must Know These Tax Rules If You Plan To Write Off Your Purchase Of The Apple Vision Pro
While the Vision Pro’s business use has not been established, businesses seem to have several reasons to purchase it for their operations.
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The IRS Will Use Artificial Intelligence To Help Pick Which Large Law Firms To Audit
The IRS has not elaborated, but the vague language could be intentional in order to put many others on notice.
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Will The Rise Of Artificial Intelligence Technology Threaten Social Security’s Solvency?
As workers disappear, the tax base declines.
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Stop Calling It A ‘Slap On The Wrist’ Just Because The Media Hyped It Up More Than It Deserved
From Hunter Biden to the ChatGPT lawyers, when media deploy the phrase ‘slap on the wrist,’ prepare to take several grains of salt.
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The Problems With Trying To Apply Real-World Laws In The Virtual Metaverse
Let’s take a deeper dive.
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Fortnite Goes Against Apple And Google And Their 30% Tax On App Purchases
Last Thursday, Epic Games, creator of the hit game Fortnite, announced a discount for the purchase of V-Bucks — its in-game currency. For iPhone and Android smartphone users, you had to purchase the V-Bucks through its own payment portal instead of Apple’s App Store or Google’s Play Store to get the discount. Both Apple and […]
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* It’s checkout time at the Supreme Court, and courtroom correspondent Mark Walsh is ready to reveal what’s in his shopping cart. [SCOTUSblog]
* Being cited by the Supreme Court is usually something to boast about — but not always, as Adam Feldman notes in this thoughtful analysis of how much oral arguments matter. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Will Baude breaks down the Court’s intriguing debate over stare decisis in South Dakota v. Wayfair. [PrawfsBlawg]
* Joel Cohen looks at why the federal judiciary gets better treatment from the press than the other two branches of government — and whether the differential is justified. [The Hill]
* Orin Kerr identifies an interesting issue: if a police officer uses Google Translate to try and request consent to search from a non-English speaker in that person’s own language, is the consent valid if Google Translate botched the translation? [Volokh Conspiracy / Reason]
* There’s a long and bipartisan tradition of… the federal government spying on reporters, as Charles Glasser explains. [Daily Caller]
* Speaking of the media, Jean O’Grady points out a helpful new resource from CQ for consumers of news, along with tips for how to tell whether or not a story is “fake news.” [Dewey B Strategic]
* If reforms come to university boardrooms, let’s hope they include law schools as well. [ProfessorBainbridge via Instapundit]
* An interesting new use of voice-activated technology, courtesy of Wolters Kluwer: getting insights into federal tax law. [Artificial Lawyer]
* If you’ll be in New York on Tuesday, July 17, raise your glass with fellow young lawyers, summer associates, and law students, at the UJA’s Summer Law Happy Hour. [UJA Federation of New York]
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* Trump team decries Kate Steinle verdict as jury finds their preferred political talisman not guilty of murder. [SF Gate]
* IRS needs $1.7 million in back taxes? X gon’ give it to you. [Law360]
* Judge Pryor thinks court packing is stupid, which probably burned all his bridges with the Heritage Foundation. [National Law Journal]
* Pay for in-house counsel is up… women still lag behind. [Corporate Counsel]
* Black women in law face discrimination on two fronts. It’s almost like they sit at the intersection of oppressions. [American Lawyer]
* Judge orders handcuffs to prevent spanking. [ABA Journal]
* Even Texas can’t defend voter suppression anymore. [Texas Tribune]
* More M&A firms join the AI train. [American Lawyer]