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Amanda Parsons

@amandaparsons.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at Colorado Law School. Research focuses on tax law, particularly the intersection of tax law and the digital economy papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAu…

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Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I am spending my 4th reading up on student loans and #OBBB for the podcast with @mbkplus.bsky.social. Unless I am missing something, law schools will be in serious trouble beginning in 2026-27. Many media outlets are reporting the $200k total cap for professional schools, but the annual cap is $50k
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Well this is certainly new
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 20/05/2025
Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever, analysis of new data @epi.org from me & Adam Reich of Columbia Labor Lab. In data back 60 years, Americans' sentiments are both warmer toward unions & cooler towards big business than ever before. www.epi.org/blog/america...
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
"I’m concerned less enforcement could lead to a boom in crypto fraud similar to what we saw in 2020 to 2022." Gutting the IRS provides particularly powerful opportunities for industries are already difficult to police because of decentralization, pseudonymity, etc www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-to...
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Less Enforcement Could Lead to More Crypto Fraud, Professor Says | Tax Notes
Tax Notes is the first source of essential daily news, analysis, and commentary for tax professionals whose success depends on being trusted for their expertise.
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Do we think this is continued disagreement over taxpayer data? Harvard's tax-exempt status? Both? Something else? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Trump to Replace Acting IRS Commissioner
The tax agency’s next leader is the fifth so far this year.
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
From a pedagogical perspective, it would have been great if he had threatened this apx two weeks ago. . . . Revoking tax-exempt status was an inevitable next step. I don't think Trump has a leg to stand on, but the legal battle will be interesting www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Trump threatens to remove Harvard’s tax-exempt status
The proposal follows the Ivy League school’s decision to defy a list of demands from the White House.
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Zuckerberg did everything he could to personally lobby Trump to avoid the FTC trial or settlement, thought this would make it go away: $25 million payment $1 million to inauguration 2 trips to Mar a Lago dialed back content moderation …and it didn’t work. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Exclusive | Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Failed Negotiations to End Antitrust Case
The FTC wanted $30 billion to drop its case. Zuckerberg offered much less and hoped Trump would back him up.
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Kimberly Clausing @kclausing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Some choice words on the tariffs. PIIE experts react to Trump’s tariffs announced April 2 www.piie.com/blogs/realti...
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PIIE experts react to Trump’s tariffs announced April 2
President Donald Trump rolled out a new Executive Order Wednesday imposing tariffs of 10 percent or higher on all US trading partners. Here is a sample of PIIE experts’ initial reactions, lightly edit...
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EPIC @epic.org · 01/04/2025
Data brokers aren't just selling your information anymore—they're spreading false narratives about data deletion services that help consumers minimize collection of their data. Read Scholar-in-Residence Justin Sherman's latest analysis 📰: epic.org/dont-believe... #DataBrokers #DataDeletion
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
These numbers are stark. Harris voters at 3% help, 94% hurt and Trump voters at 61% help, 19% hurt.
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Judy Lee @judylee.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
An excerpt from WilmerHale's filing, about a company predecessor. They won't roll over, and this gives me hope.
During the Army-McCarthy hearings, Hale and Dorr’s Joseph Welch took on pro bono
representation of the United States Army in a time when anti-communist sentiment was at its
height. Welch’s advocacy—and his famous “Have you no decency, sir” rejoinder—began the
process that ended Senator McCarthy’s career.
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
“they had seen a large increase in clients wanting to set up Swiss-based bank and investment accounts, especially ones that are compliant with US tax rules” I’m writing about wealth taxes & capital flight is a common pushback. Here we see the power of FATCA to negate it. Expatriation though . . .
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Authoritarian regimes first target 3 groups: academics, lawyers, and journalists. Columbia & Paul Weiss have made it clear that, in the first two cases, the "elites" can be bought Someone has to forgo $$ to stop the tide abovethelaw.com/2025/03/a-th...
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A Third-Year Skadden Associate Is The Only Person In Biglaw Willing To Publicly Condemn Trump's Threat To The Rule Of Law - Above the Law
She's the bravest person in Biglaw.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/03/2025
Cool cool. @durbin.senate.gov, @amyklobuchar.com @klobuchar.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov are looking to team up with MAGA to give Donald Trump the power to censor anything he wants on the Internet. Do they not recognize what will happen?
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Martin Niemoller: first they came for the socialists... Dem consultants: our polls suggest we should also come for the socialists!!
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 19/03/2025
JOB ALERT: Seeking a recent law school grad to work as a legal fellow from the spring or summer 2025 through August 2026. Help litigate groundbreaking First Amendment cases and contribute to research and public education initiatives. Deadline to apply: 4/3/2025. knightcolumbia.org/page/legal-f...
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| Knight First Amendment Institute
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
As an alum of the college and former fellow at the law school, I sadly agree Universities serve an essential role in society. If Columbia folds, it is completely abandoning that role
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025 (ECCA) would use the tax code to privilege nonprofit organizations that give out private K-12 school vouchers over nonprofits working on other issues. www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-to...
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Education Bill Would Provide High-Income Tax Cut, ITEP Says | Tax Notes
The Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025 would provide a tax credit for donating to scholarship groups, but most contributions would be made by high-income taxpayers looking to save on taxes be...
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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Here's a statement from Democratic FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter responding to the Trump administration's attempt to fire her.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 18/03/2025
FTC removes posts critical of big tech from its website
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FTC removes posts critical of big tech from its website
The FTC has removed over 300 blog posts published during the agency’s leadership under former chair Lina Khan, Wired reports. These include posts that are critical of companies like Amazon and Microsoft for their handling of customer data. The FTC did not…
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Texas legislators considering a bill that would put all public university course curricula and faculty hiring in the hands of ruling party political appointees and politicians, effectively ending academic freedom.
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Texas bill would increase oversight of universities’ hiring, curriculum and compliance
Senate Bill 37 would create a state office to investigate complaints against universities and require governing boards to ensure courses don’t endorse certain ideologies.
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...
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Balkinization: A Title VI Demand Letter That Itself Violates Title VI (and the Constitution)
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
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A New Reconstruction @burleyzack.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Bernie and AOC are coming to Denver for a Fighting Oligarchy rally, Civic Center Park, Friday March 21 — starts at 5pm.
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Let them eat birthday cake 🤦‍♀️
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
"Acting IRS Chief Counsel William Paul has been replaced by Trump ally and lawyer Andrew De Mello, a move that former agency officials say is out of the ordinary." Look for a lot of extraordinary moves at the IRS. This is concerning from a taxpayer data perspective www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-to...
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Trump Replaces Acting IRS Chief Counsel | Tax Notes
Tax Notes is the first source of essential daily news, analysis, and commentary for tax professionals whose success depends on being trusted for their expertise.
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
"Begin the process of placing the Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies department under academic receivership for a minimum of five years." This goes beyond policing protest, it's policing thought
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Kimberly Clausing @kclausing.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The folly of IRS staffing cuts, from Natasha Sarin. DOGE could easily lose all of their purported savings, and more, from gutting the IRS. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | DOGE says it’s saving $100 billion. It’s about to lose a lot more.
Cuts to the IRS will backfire by giving tax evaders a free pass.
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Buckle up friends
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
For those of you who asked me if you should file your taxes quickly in case accounts get frozen, apparently the answer is yes
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This explainer was a helpful breakdown for me—particularly the jurisdiction question
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We can’t wait for Adam to join us at Colorado Law! Everyone should check out his amazing scholarship: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/...
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Author Page for Adam B. Sopko :: SSRN
Total downloads of all papers by Adam B. Sopko
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Tariffs *facilitate* tax cuts for a very small sliver of very wealthy Americans. At the expense of higher prices for everyone.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/03/2025
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 05/03/2025
My colleague @stevevladeck.bsky.social points out the contrast between Samual Alito's dissent this morning supporting presidential autonomy from courts and his dissent in 2022 when Biden was president, arguing courts could dictate immigration enforcement. www.stevevladeck.com/p/129-untang...
In that respect, contrast Alito’s analysis here with his dissenting opinion in United States v. Texas—in which he would’ve upheld an injunction by a single (judge-shopped) district judge that effectively dictated to the executive branch what its immigration enforcement priorities must be. In explaining why the Biden administration should lose, he wrote:

nothing in our precedents even remotely supports this grossly inflated conception of “executive Power,” which seriously infringes the “legislative Powers” that the Constitution grants to Congress. At issue here is Congress’s authority to control immigration, and “[t]his Court has repeatedly emphasized that ‘over no conceivable subject is the legislative power of Congress more complete than it is over’ the admission of aliens.” In the exercise of that power, Congress passed and President Clinton signed a law that commands the detention and removal of aliens who have been convicted of certain particularly dangerous crimes. The Secretary of Homeland Security, however, has instructed his agents to disobey this legislative command and instead follow a different policy that is more to his liking.
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Apparently not anymore . . .
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
socialism is very socially acceptable for bankers
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Important read. It is absolutely essential that Republicans (not just DOGE) focus on the spending side only. Otherwise, they risk scrutiny of the massive tax cuts for the wealthy that are an/the ultimate goal of this mayhem
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
So we’re all giving up Amazon for lent, right?
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
What the people want the Dems to do during the State of the Union: Boycott it en masse & hold a competing event featuring fired federal workers & get real angry about the whole situation What the Dems want to do during the State of the Union: Clap tepidly, make an eww stinky poopoo face once
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Crypto is predatory. This administration likes predators
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 04/03/2025
Basically nobody currently making policy for the United States seems to have any concept of how vulnerable global value chains are despite being bashed repeatedly over the head with these lessons for the last five years and it’s absolutely wild.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 03/03/2025
Atlanta Fed forecasts a -2.8% GDP growth for this quarter. 4 weeks ago it was +3.9%. Trump owns this. bit.ly/3Ddsxim
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Atlanta Fed model forecasts nearly -3% GDP growth in first quarter of this year
The Atlanta Fed's GDPNow model updated on Monday.
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I am so deeply ashamed. I went to YLS at the same time as JD Vance. How he has become what he has become completely baffles me
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/02/2025
Screenshot of Rubio while Trump and Vance berated Zelenskyy
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“By the dawn of the 19th century, tuberculosis—or consumption—had killed one in seven of all people that had ever lived.” www.pbs.org/wgbh/america....
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TB in America: 1895-1954 | American Experience | PBS
By the dawn of the 19th century, tuberculosis had killed one in seven of all people that had ever lived. Browse images of America's fight against the deadly disease.
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
CO friends: please call your reps about this! Incredible program is being slashed (limiting services like speech and physical therapy to 4 hours per month total—not nearly enough for many kids) ALL OVER A $4 MILLION BUDGET SHORTFALL. We can do better www.cpr.org/2025/02/27/b...
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Budget shortfall means Colorado’s young children with developmental delays will get fewer services
The changes would impact potentially thousands of children, especially those from low-income families who are on Medicaid.
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Women terrify MAGA more than anything else
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
personal liberties= doing whatever I want regardless of the cost to others free markets=guarding corporate profits and staggering concentrations of economic power regardless of the cost to others they're starting to say the quiet part out loud
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
With House Republican leadership trying to falsely claim their draconian $880b in #Medicaid cuts is only about curbing fraud, read this essential blog from my colleague Andy Schneider: ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/01/10/t...
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The Truth about Fraud Against Medicaid
As my colleague Edwin Park has explained, capping federal Medicaid payments to states will likely be a key objective for the incoming administration.  To lay the groundwork for this radical co…
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Amanda Parsons @amandaparsons.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Calling this “tax avoidance” doesn’t capture the issue. Propublica’s “true tax rate” was calculated ignoring the realization requirement, which is either a legislative gift or a constitutional mandate, depending on who you speak to. It’s the primary reason founder billionaires maintain low tax rates
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