Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Schumacher & Townsend Co-Author Book on Tax Crimes

Alumni Scott Schumacher and Jack Townsend have recently co-authored (with Larry Campagna and Steve Johnson) a book, Tax Crimes, in the LexisNexis Graduate Tax Series.

Monday, January 26, 2009

W's DOJ Promo Piece - Tax Division Excerpts

George W. Bush DOJ Promo Piece re George W. Bush Years 2001-2009 (the Tax Division Portion)

Position Available: Senior Tax Mergers & Acquisition Advisor

Senior Tax Mergers & Acquisition Advisor (Attorney)

Job descriptionTax attorney who will participate from a tax perspective in the negotiation, tax planning and integration for an acquiring company. Duties will include the minimizing for the tax cost of integration, participate in due diligence work, calculation of the Sec 382 NOL limitation. Also, determine the purchase price accounting implications of all of the tax costs. Candidate must be capable of succeeding the current director

Required
• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 2 years experience in M and A Tax Experience
• At least 5 years experience in International Tax
• Readiness to travel up to 10%; travelling 1 day a week
• English: Fluent Preferred
• Law

Location
• Armonk, NY

Contact: Alden Powell [mppowell@us.ibm.com]

Monday, January 5, 2009

NPR Article (with Pictures) on DOJ's Murals

On 1/5/2009, NPR had a presentation on the DOJ Murals. The title of the article is "Murals Depict Law and Justice."

The NPR article (with a link to audio) is at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98783331

The slide show of pictures of the murals is at: http://www.npr.org/multimedia/2008/12/murals/index.html

Enjoy!