Professor of Law and Sociology, Vanderbilt University
Beverly Moran teaches in federal income taxation, including individuals, partnerships, tax-exempt organizations and corporate, as well as courses in Law and Cinema, Islamic Law and Race and Law.
In addition to her work on the Internal Revenue Code, Moran’s interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work encompasses empirical legal studies ("Coitus and Consequences"), international and comparative tax law ("Taxation" in The Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies), Islamic law (“Islamic Law and Elder Care in the Central Asian Edgen System”), labor law ("The Right to Religious Accommodation in Pension Plans”), law and development (“Local Government Tax Incentives for Economic Development”), legal education (“Revisiting the Work We Know So Little About: Race, Wealth, Privilege, and Social Justice”), legal philosophy (“Capitalism and the Tax System: A Search for Social Justice”), and politics (“United States’ Trade Policy and the Exportation of United States’ Culture”).
Feb 24, 2022 20:59 pm UTC| Life
No one likes tax season. Its complicated, its stressful, and its getting worse. Last year was already the most challenging year taxpayers and tax professionals have ever experienced, according to the Taxpayer Advocate...
The IRS already has all your income tax data – so why do Americans still have to file their taxes?
Feb 02, 2022 09:12 am UTC| Economy Life
Doing taxes in the U.S. is notoriously complicated and costly. And it gets even worse when there are delays and backlogs, making it especially hard to reach the Internal Revenue Service for assistance. But to me this...
Why taxing US billionaires’ wealth – as Biden tried to do – will never work
Oct 31, 2021 23:29 pm UTC| Economy
The speed with which a tax on billionaires came and went as a means to pay for President Joe Bidens economic agenda shows why its so hard to tax wealth in the U.S. Democrats unveiled their proposal on Oct. 27, 2021, and...
Why can't the IRS just send Americans a refund – or a bill?
Mar 22, 2021 12:46 pm UTC| Economy
The Internal Revenue Service has postponed the April 15 tax filing deadline to May 17. If taxpayers need even more time to file federal returns, the agency added, they can request an extension until Oct. 15. This...
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