Wednesday, March 17, 2021

St Patrick’s Day- A Law Professor Switches to Stand-Up Comedy

Why Celebrating St. Patrick's Day Could Make You Happier

According to our resident happiness expert, Christmas doesn't have to be the only holly jolly holiday.







Kathryn Goddard, Paul MacDonald convicted for defrauding Australian Taxation Office

Divorce, bankruptcy and citizenship issues – these are all matters that might land you in court. But not all courts are created equal. So how does Australian courts work?

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Two Hunter police officers had plenty of opportunities to come clean about “false and inflated” tax returns but decided to lodge them anyway, a court heard.

    Two Hunter police officers caught defrauding the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) out of thousands of dollars have escaped jail time, instead slapped with a fine and each put on a two year good behaviour bond.

    Do privileged cabinet ministers have any idea how the poorer people live?

    As a child in the 1950s, our family moved to Port Kembla, and we lived on Hill 60, just above the rocks where a lot of people have drowned recently…. 





    Indictment for FBAR Charges, False Income Tax Returns and False Streamlined Submission 

    Yesterday, DOJ Tax issued this press release:  Businessman Indicted for Not Reporting Foreign Bank Accounts and Filing False Documents with the IRShere.  T


    Wall Street Journal, A Law Professor Switches to Stand-Up Comedy:

    Liz 2“It wasn’t like I was Doogie Howser,” Liz Glazersaid of her precocious success, but she wasn’t far off. She picked up a master’s degree in philosophy during her four years as an undergraduate, then shot through law school and landed a job at a Wall Street firm before becoming a full-time law professor at age 27. And then, shortly after attaining hard-won tenure

     Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 6, 2021 – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: You Can’t Launder Bitcoins!; You got a vaccine. Walgreens got your data; NSA Pushes Zero Trust Principles to Help Prevent Sophisticated Hacks; and Accidental Wiretaps: The Implications of False Positives By Always-Listening Devices For Privacy Law & Policy.


    Omri Y. Marian (UC-Irvine), Taxing Data:

    The Article offers a new theory of tax on data collection and transmission, as a primary source of government revenue. This tax does not depend on the monetary value of data. This “data tax” can supplement, and in some instances replace, income taxes. The data tax can: (1) mitigate some of the failures of income taxes in a globalized data-based economy; and, (2) serve to alleviate some of the externalities of a data-based economy.



    The “Chinese” are a very diverse group.

    The so-called “Chinese Australian community” is a myth. It is a much less homogeneous group than widely assumed in public debate. Recognising differences within the group would not deny their commonality but instead, serve the ultimate purposes of multiculturalism and social cohesion. ...