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Stephanie Hoffer
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Lawrence A. Jegen III Chair in Tax Law, Indiana University McKinney School of Law. All opinions are my own and do not represent the position of I.U.
University budgets are getting ugly. If you still have funds, you can minimize disruption for junior scholars in affected states by inviting them to give a talk or a visit and *covering their costs!* We can fold our academic wings around our junior colleagues. Let’s not fail them.
May 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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For more details on the law, see this Tax Law Center post. Overwhelming bipartisan majorities in Congress have enacted laws making it a crime for the President and his staff to request an audit or investigation of a particular taxpayer. 3/3 taxlawcenter.org/blog/irs-sta...
IRS Staff Must Reject and Report Attempts at Political Interference in Tax Investigations
Recent reporting suggests that the President and other Administration officials may have attempted to initiate or interfere with IRS investigations for political reasons. Overwhelming bipartisan major...
taxlawcenter.org
May 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Thank you, colleagues. We had a great year together!
May 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Our Graduate Tax Program at @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social now offers $20K scholarships towards a tax LLm to IRS/DOJ Tax Division attorneys who lost their job to DOGE's utter idiocy.
Check it out here:
UC Irvine’s Graduate Tax Program Joins in Supporting IRS and DOJ Tax Attorneys  – UC Irvine Law News
news.law.uci.edu
April 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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I'm not sure about tariffs being unforeseeable when Trump ran on imposing them. Not believing him probably isn't going to be enough.
April 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law are open access now! Very cool. What will you learn today? opil.ouplaw.com/home/MPIL
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April 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Measles outbreak confirmed in Ohio, state health department announces

www.dispatch.com/story/news/h...
Measles outbreak confirmed in Ohio, state health department announces
None of the individuals infected were vaccinated.
www.dispatch.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Congrats to Indiana University McKinney students Bryce Hull, Giovanni Murtha, and Josh Brandle on having the 2d place brief and 3d place oral arguments at last week’s tax moot court! I am so proud of you and am glad to be your coach. Well deserved- you guys worked so hard!
March 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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We know that elephants and dolphins have names for themselves and others (as discussed in www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...). The new hope of a growing number of biologists and computer scientists is that applying AI to animal sounds might reveal what these creatures are saying to each other!
AI decodes the calls of the wild
Artificial intelligence could reveal how animals of the land, sea and sky talk to others of their species.
www.nature.com
December 15, 2024 at 3:43 AM
I have a Section 61 joke, but it’s gross.
I have a depreciation joke, but it’s lost most of its value
December 4, 2024 at 4:28 AM
We do not come to treat with Sauron, faithless and accursed. Tell your master this: the armies of Mordor must disband. He is to depart these lands, never to return.
For the first time, astronomers have captured a clear image of a star beyond our galaxy.

"WOH G64" is a red supergiant star, 2000 times the diameter of our Sun, and appears to be on the verge of a supernova explosion. 🧪🔭

www.eso.org/public/news/...
December 1, 2024 at 1:51 PM
The best Saturday nights are the ones where I fall asleep next to my little boy after story time and wake up at midnight all snuggled together. He won’t be little forever, and I am going to miss these moments. 💕
December 1, 2024 at 5:46 AM
The news story about that Chinese crypto guy eating the art banana is exam fodder for sure. It’s my favorite art blurb since the one about the guy who drew money and paid for things with it. What a peach :-) #taxprof #contractsprof #bananas
December 1, 2024 at 5:43 AM
PSA: if you bought a frozen turkey for Thanksgiving, put it in your fridge to thaw today! (Unless your family are all buzzards. In that case, just set it on the lawn.) 🦃 #thanksgiving #saynotorawturkey
November 25, 2024 at 2:00 PM
This AI is from … Boston? #AI
November 25, 2024 at 4:09 AM
“Did you mean kylo ren syndrome?”
You know the "🔹AI Overview" you get on Google Search?

I discovered today that it's repeating as fact something I made up 7 years ago as a joke.

"Kyloren syndrome" is a fictional disease I invented as part of a sting operation to prove that you can publish any nonsense in predatory journals...
November 24, 2024 at 7:44 PM
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ACLU is hiring an Algorithmic Justice Fellow to work on cutting edge projects focused on digital rights — the work will interrogate how automated systems are being used in high stakes areas. www.aclu.org/careers/appl...
Careers at ACLU
Join our team! We’re looking for committed, passionate people for open roles at the ACLU.
www.aclu.org
November 24, 2024 at 3:00 AM
So excited at first because I thought this bit was about adjusted gross income. And it is, just in a more terrifying and interesting way than usual.
Starting to see the first serious economic analysis attempts to grapple with what AGI might mean. I appreciate that this piece embraces scenarios, we don’t know if or when AGI might happen.

But wow that wages graph is something else. www.imf.org/en/Publicati...
November 22, 2024 at 3:40 AM
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A word about DOGE: The Framers rejected the idea that the President would determine the structure of the executive branch. The creation of offices, boards, and DEPARTMENTS to implement law is the job of Congress. Journalists should call DOGE an “initiative” or a “project.” It’s not a department. YW.
November 22, 2024 at 2:47 AM
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🚨 JOB ALERT - Come work with me on #offshorefinance and #geopolitics!!

There's a #postdoc opening in my Freigeist Research Group at Freie Universität #Berlin. 100%, 2 years.

🗓 Deadline: 16.12.2024

Details: lnkd.in/ee5_MWpp

P.S. Sharing is caring 🎁

www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
PS-PostDoc-FreigeistFG-2024
www.fu-berlin.de
November 20, 2024 at 9:42 AM
My friend, Carrie, sent me a potato in the mail! Whoever started @mailaspud is a comic genius.
November 16, 2024 at 2:44 PM
If we made a graphic depiction of changes to the Internal Revenue Code over time, I wonder if it would be a fractal pattern? #taxskye
November 16, 2024 at 2:39 PM
It’s been maybe a year since I left twitter. It’s so exciting to see all of my friends here!
November 15, 2024 at 1:58 AM