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Leandra Lederman

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Leandra Lederman

William W. Oliver Professor of Tax Law


Break into Tax: Tax Concepts & Contexts Explained -- Breaking into Tax (with Allison Christians) is a video series on YouTube featuring Lederman and Christians, "two seasoned tax profs, here to break down tax-related concepts."

A Pinch of S.A.L.T. (Overview of State & Local Taxes) (Jun. 7, 2022).

Estate & Gift Tax: Basics & A View of IRS Practice (May 2, 2022).

An Overview of Individuals' Deductions (Apr. 18, 2022).

Addicted to Tax (parody) (Apr. 1, 2022).

Misconceptions About Tax (Mar. 28, 2022).

TaxValentine's Day (parody trailer) (Feb. 14, 2022).

Optimizing Law Review Submissions (Advice From an Executive Articles Editor) (with Jon Choi and Abbi Semnisky) (Jan. 31, 2022).

Sources of Tax Authority (with Ashley Ahlbrand) (Jan. 17, 2022).

How To Do Tax Research (with Ashley Ahlbrand) (Jan. 12, 2022).

How To Do Legal Research (with Ashley Ahlbrand) (Jan. 10, 2022).

Spider-Man: No Tax Home (parody trailer) (Dec. 17, 2021).

The Federal Income Tax Treatment of Debt (with Stephen Mazza) (Dec. 15, 2021).

The Capital Gains Preference (with Emily Cauble) (Dec. 8, 2021).

The Limitation on Capital Losses (with Emily Cauble) (Dec. 1, 2021).

Capital Gains & Losses: An Introduction (with Emily Cauble) (Nov. 23, 2021).

Introduction to Deductions (with Ariel Jurow Kleiman) (Nov. 17, 2021).

Tax Actually (parody trailer) (Nov. 10, 2021).

Exam Tips (Nov. 3, 2021).

Computing Tax Gain & Loss (with Emily Satterthwaite) (Oct. 28, 2021).

Tax Papers Unlocked: Victoria Haneman (Oct. 21, 2021).

Crossover Episode: Talking Tax Careers with The Tax Chick (with Amanda Doucette) (Oct. 14, 2021).

Friday the 15th (parody trailer) (Oct. 1, 2021).

Break into Legal Academia (Sept. 22, 2021).

Introduction to Season 2 of Break Into Tax (Sept. 15, 2021).

Tax Papers Unlocked: Prof. Jon Choi (Aug. 17, 2021).

Tax Careers: The Office of Chief Counsel & the IRS (Aug. 12, 2021).

Tax Papers Unlocked: Prof. Dan Shaviro (Jul. 29, 2021).

How to Read a Tax Statute (Jul. 19, 2021).

Tax Papers Unlocked: Prof. Rita de la Feria (Jul. 6, 2021).

Taxing Nonrecognition Transactions (Jun. 30, 2021).

An Overview of U.S. Federal Tax Controversies (Jun. 16, 2021).

Initial Basis in an Asset (Jun. 10, 2021).

The Basics of Basis (May 27, 2021).

Tax Papers Unlocked: The Elevator Pitch (May 17, 2021).

Last-Minute Exam Prep (Apr. 22, 2021).

The 3 Tax Policy Principles Unlocked (Apr. 19, 2021).

Notable Quotable: John Locke on the Benefits Principle (Apr. 14, 2021).

Notable Quotable: Adam Smith on Ability to Pay (Apr. 13, 2021).

Why Take Tax? The Top 10 Reasons! (Apr. 9, 2021).

Why Take Tax? #WrongAnswersOnly (Apr. 1, 2021).

1 Weird Tip to Save a Bundle in Taxes! (Apr. 1, 2021).

Getting a Job at the U.S. Department of Justice Tax Division (Mar. 22, 2021).

Tax Return of the Jedi: Unofficial Parody Trailer (Mar. 17, 2021).

Prosecuting Mobsters: Behind the Scenes of a Front-Page News Criminal Tax Case (Mar. 15, 2021).

A BiT of Grammar for Students (Mar. 10, 2021).

How Does the Government Catch Tax Crime? (Mar. 8, 2021).

Tax at the U.S. Department of Justice: Richard Zuckerman Interview (Mar. 1, 2021).

Tax Realization: Extended Cut! (Feb. 25, 2021).

Tax Realization: When Do You Realize Gain, Loss, Income & Deductions? (Feb. 22, 2021).

Should You Get A Tax LLM? Our Experiences, Pros & Cons, and Things to Evaluate (Feb. 15, 2021).

Good Question! Asking a Question in a Tax Policy Colloquium or Tax Workshop (Feb. 1, 2021).

What's A Tax Policy Colloquium and Why Participate? (Feb. 1, 2021).

Writing Tips for Short Papers (Feb. 1, 2021).

So, You Have to Write a Reaction Paper? (Feb. 1, 2021).

Introduction to Your Hosts and Break into Tax (Feb. 3, 2021).

Fulbright Belgium-Luxembourg's Blog -- 

A University That Doesn't Show Its Age (June 12, 2019).

The Surly Subgroup -- The Surly Subgroup is a tax blog written by tax academics. Discussion topics include tax-exempt organizations, tax procedure and administration, cross-border taxation, and taxation of individuals and business entities.

Season 2 of Break Into Tax (9/15/21).

Announcing the 2021 Indiana/Leeds Summer Tax Workshop Series! (5/24/21).

Call for Papers for the 2021 Indiana/Leeds Summer Tax Workshop Series (4/29/21).

Tax Return of the Jedi (Mar. 18, 2021).

Supervillainy and the U.S. Tax Code (Feb. 19, 2021).

#TaxValentines (Feb. 13, 2021).

Break into Tax (Feb. 8, 2021).

Superman, Tax Evader? (Dec. 27, 2020).

Why Tax Losses Matter (for Pres. Trump's Taxes and Everyone Else's) (Oct. 2, 2020).

#TrumpTaxLimericks (Sept. 30, 2020).

Wrap-Up of the 2020 Indiana/Leeds Summer Tax Workshop Series (Aug. 17, 2020).

More on Altera v. Commissioner (June 12, 2020).

Announcing the 2020 Indiana/Leeds Summer Tax Workshop Series! (May 15, 2020).

Call For Papers for the Indiana/Leeds Summer Tax Workshop Series (Apr. 29, 2020).

Virtual Tax Policy Colloquia (Apr. 7, 2020).

IU Tax Policy Colloquium: Liscow, “Equality, Taxation, and Law and Economics In the 21st Century” (Feb. 25, 2020).

IU Tax Policy Colloquium: Haslehner, "International Tax Competition: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" (Feb. 10, 2020).

IU Tax Policy Colloquium: Layser, "When, Where, and How To Design Community-Oriented Place-Based Tax Incentives" (Feb. 4, 2020).

The IU Maurer School of Law's 2020 Tax Policy Colloquium (Jan. 21, 2020).

Call for Papers: "Social Equality in the 'Sharing Economy?'"  Symposium (Indiana University, Bloomington) (Nov. 11, 2019).

The IRS's New Tax Gap Map (Sept. 27, 2019).

IU Tax Policy Colloquium: Williamson, Filer Voter: An Experiment Testing Voter Registration at Tax Time (Mar. 4, 2019).

Zelenak: IU Tax Policy Colloquium, "The NCAA and the IRS" & Tax Sitcom Night (Feb. 18, 2019).

Happy #TaxValentines Day! (Feb. 24, 2019).

New Paper on Tax Enforcement and Corporate Malfeasance (Feb. 7, 2019).

IU Tax Policy Colloquium: Hayashi, "Countercyclical Tax Bases" (Jan. 21, 2019).

The IU Maurer Law School's 2019 Tax Policy Colloquium (Jan. 14, 2019).

Tax Evasion and the Fraud Diamond (Dec. 18, 2018).

Increased Transparency in the U.S. Tax Court: Has the Moment Arrived? (Nov. 1, 2018).

#TaxProf Gathering as #SEALS2018 (Aug. 8, 2018).

Update on Altera (Aug. 7, 2018).

Reversing the U.S. Tax Court, 9th Circuit Rules for IRS in Altera (July 24, 2018).

IU Tax Policy Colloquium: Burman, "The Rising Tide Wage Credit" (Apr. 17, 2018).

IU Tax Policy Colloquium: Satterthwaite, "Optional Taxation: Survey Evidence from Ontario Microentrepreneurs" (Mar. 29, 2018).

IU Tax Policy Colloquium: Ring, "Silos and First Movers in the Sharing Economy Debates" (Mar. 9, 2018).

Stephanie McMahon, "Tax as Part of a Broken Budget: Good Taxes Are Good Cause Enough" (Mar. 2, 2018).

IU Tax Policy Colloquium: Glogower, "Taxing Inequality" (Feb. 20, 2018).

#TaxValentines (Feb. 14, 2018).

IU Tax Policy Colloquium: Brooks, "The Case for Incrementalism in Tax Reform"  (Feb. 6, 2018).

IU Tax Policy Colloquium: Brennan & McDonald, "Debt and Equity Taxation: A Combined Economic and Legal Perspective" (Jan. 24, 2018).

The 2018 Tax Policy Colloquium at the IU Maurer Law School (Jan. 11, 2018).

Sharing Syllabi and Course Updates in the Wake of the Recent Tax Law Changes (Dec. 27, 2017).

Are Sexual Harassment Plaintiffs' Attorneys' Fees Inadvertently Disallowed by the Tax Cuts Bill? (Dec. 19, 2017).

Tomorrow's Ninth Circuit Oral Argument in Altera (Oct. 10, 2017).

The Real IRS Scandal (Oct. 5, 2017).

Analysis of the ABA Tax Section's Reduced Travel Support for Academics (Sept. 25, 2017).

Stetson Law School Seeks a Tax Professor (Aug. 18, 2017).

Looking Back at Maurer's SALT-Filled 2017 Tax Policy Colloquium (Aug. 10, 2017).

The University of Pittsburgh School of Law Seeks to Hire a Tax Professor (Aug. 9, 2017).

AALS Call for Papers by Junior Scholars (May 9, 2017).

AALS Call for Papers on the Challenges and Opportunities of Exotic Hybrids (Mar. 30, 2017).

ACTC Letter Requesting a Variance for Tax Guidance (Mar. 27, 2017).

When a Tax Strategy Benefits a Subnational Government (Mar. 13, 2017).

Death, Taxes, and a Beach Read (Mar. 9, 2017).

The Status of Judicial Anti-Abuse Doctrines If Code Section 7701(o) Were Repealed (Feb. 20, 2017).

Concluding Thoughts on the 2017 Mini-Symposium on "The Future of Tax Administration and Enforcement" (Feb. 10, 2017).

2017 Mini-Symposium on "The Future of Tax Administration and Enforcement" (Jan. 18, 2017).

Deficient Notices of Deficiency and the Remedy Question (Jan. 13, 2017).

Letter Urging the Senate to Vote on U.S. Tax Court Nominations (Nov. 10, 2016).

Tax Professor Letter Opposing Impeachment or Censure of IRS Commissioner Koskinen (Aug. 29, 2016).

"Taxman" at 50 (Aug. 5, 2016).

Don't Impeach IRS Commissioner Koskinen (July 20, 2016).

An Amicus Brief on Behalf of the Commissioner in Altera (July 15, 2016).

The New Tax Gap Map: Not Much Has Changed (May 2, 2016).

Introduction Post: Leandra Lederman (Apr. 22, 2016).

TaxProf Blog -- TaxProf Blog is a member of the Law Professor Blog Network, the nation's only network of legal blogs edited primarily by law professors.

On the PATH to a More Judicial Tax Court (with Paul Caron) (Dec. 23, 2015).

Structuring a Tax Policy Workshop Series -- Indiana-Bloomington's Experience (with Paul Caron) (May 4, 2009).

Structuring a Tax Policy Workshop Series -- Indiana (with Paul Caron) (Apr. 23, 2008).

Conglomerate Blog -- Created in 2004, the Conglomerate Blog brings together a number of academics to discuss various topics related to business, law, economics, and society.

Agenda for 112th: Sunsetting Tax Provisions (published as part of the Masters' Forum) (Nov. 5, 2010).

Leandra Lederman on Field's Check-the-Box (Aug. 4, 2008).

Thank You! (Apr. 19, 2007).

Virtual Tax Revisited (Apr. 18, 2007).

Tax Humor (Apr. 17, 2007).

Fiscal Equalization for the U.S.? (Apr. 15, 2007).

What Do We Owe Future Generations? (Apr. 13, 2007).

Administrability Matters in the Federal Income Tax (Apr. 10, 2007).

Virtual Tax, Part 2 (Apr. 7, 2007).

Virtual Tax, Part 1 (Apr. 5, 2007).