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Thursday, July 21, 2022

Dr Cope - “ Parliamentary Hasta la vista baby' - Husky Sacred Grounds: Teaching Tax Through Movies 🎥

 “Be yourself; Jozef as everyone else is already taken.”


 Buzz Luhrmann agrees - Teaching Tax Through Film: It’s Not as Crazy as it Sounds


 Irish horror films find mainstream success. “Irish folklore is particularly dark and lends itself to horror,” said the film’s writer and director, Kate Dolan, 31. “Not a lot of happy endings – a lot of people being dragged to their doom.”


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Iceberg Image: Older Australians’ Workforce Participation, Health and Wealth Inequality


Australians urged to work from home as winter Omicron wave swamps hospitals


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Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz calls for windfall profits tax in Australia


A controversial plan to build apartments and a hotel on a historic Anglican Church site has caused uproar in the seaside village of Huskisson on the NSW South Coast. . . And they fought and they fought every step of the way


Stephen Bartlett: DA Did not need removal of trees April 2019


Everyone knows John Hatton: …this week the current DA for the Husky church site has been withdrawn by the ruthless developer … On April 11 the majority of Shoalhaven City Councillors passed a motion (see below) that instructs Council staff to prepare a timeline to heritage list the church and grounds.


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This 33-year-old mom makes $760,000 a year in passive income—and lives on a sailboat: 'I work just 10 hours a week'


Is Paul Mason’s parliamentary run a Trojan Horse for British intelligence? The Grayzone. As opposed to Parliamentary Labor and the press?


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Rio Tinto agrees to pay nearly $1 billion in tax avoidance settlement with Australian Tax Office



Teaching Tax Through Movies -- Loverly 

 I was in my former life an Adjunct Professor at University of Houston Law School where I taught courses in Tax Procedure and in Tax Crimes.  Often in the courses, I would mention My Cousin Vinny to illustrate (often by stretch) some point relevant to the classes.  

This offering caught my attention.  Alice G. Abreu (Temple), Teaching Tax Through Film Is Not As Crazy As It Sounds, 19 Pittsburgh Tax Rev. 183 (2022), here.  I was intrigued to see what Professor Abreu offered her students in the way of teaching tax law through the movies. I offer the relevant portions (pages 205-207 of the article (pages 24-26 of the pdf), footnotes omitted).

The films for this course were chosen for a breadth of genres and eras from the 1960s to last year. Some were animated; some were about superheroes; some were musicals. I aspired for every student to enjoy at least one film, and I hope they enjoyed many more. At the same time, an underlying need was to choose films that highlight specific tax topics. Although all films raise important tax issues, some are more clearly on point for the topics we covered.


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