Tax Advice for the Second Obama Administration

Should the Obama Administration Implement a CO2 Tax?

Policy Options: The Obama Administration and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

What are the assets available to the incoming Obama administration for resolving or at least reducing the intensity of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict? What liabilities and constraints will the next administration face and what opportunities might it attempt to exploit for this purpose? This document constitutes a first attempt by two experts— one Israeli, the other a Palestinian—to examine th...

Symposium Introduction Fdr and Obama: Are There Constitutional Law Lessons from the New Deal for the Obama Administration?

It was the popular media that first made the comparison between an Obama presidency and that of Franklin Roosevelt. The media did not wait until President Obama took office, but began the comparisons in earnest after the presidential election of 2008, perhaps most famously on Time Magazine’s November 24, 2008 cover depicting a photoshopped Barack Obama in a characteristic pose of the New Deal P...

Health reform and the obama administration: reflections in mid-2010.

The reforms that finally emerged from the Obama administration's initiative were the result of a year of nasty, demagogic and misleading claims in the US public forum, coupled with the complexities of crafting legislation that stood a chance of passing both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The resulting "hybrid" approach to healthcare reform produced a conservative strategy that ign...

Designing Competency Model for the Head of Tax groups at Iranian National Tax Administration Based on Qualitative Approach

Implementing comprehensive Tax plan and achieving its goals require human resources system to be in harmony with changing environment. Therefore a unified approach is necessary for designing human resources sub- systems. The purpose of this research is to formulate and design a competency framework for tax group heads. This research is embedded in an interpretative paradigm and follows that res...