Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every dachshund knows what it means to be placed in air jail. 050
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We have officially reached the point in my teaching career where I need to explain to law students what “stop payment on a check” means and how one does it. The generational divide is no longer just skinny jeans or side parts. 050
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The internet has a content theft economy. The tweet on the left went viral (22M views) and accounts have been screenshotting-grabbing it as their own for years now. Why? It’s an effective growth strategy and there is little recourse (and so little downside). 042
Reposted by Victoria J. HanemanLawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Re-upping this. Again. You run some risks accusing people of using AI. abovethelaw.com/2026/09/law-...abovethelaw.comLaw Reviews And AI Detection, A Letter To Law Review Editors - Above the LawLaw reviews potentially rejecting submissions because the journals detect AI is problematic for a variety of reasons. 041
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 08/09/2026“Tax wealth over $50 million at 100%” sounds like a smart idea to some people until you realize that confiscating all wealth creates an incredible incentive for anyone with more than $50M to shift assets, relinquish citizenship, and change residency. 332
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 03/09/2026At this point, I assume Bloomberg has me on speed dial under “tax professor willing to say something borderline snarky about Jeffrey Epstein.” And I remain delighted to serve. The underlying story really is astonishing: Billionaire Leon Black paid Epstein 221
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 17/08/2026“Just add your child to the deed. You’ll avoid probate!” Please do not. You may have just made a taxable gift, lost the stepped-up basis on part of the house, AND exposed your home to your child’s creditors/divorce. Do not create a tax /asset-protection disaster because you’re scared of probate. 240
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Imagine spending years complaining about coastal elites only to find out the coastal elites you went to school with also can’t stand you. 0113
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Turns out ‘abolish the income tax’ polls a lot better than ‘cut billions from the budget or tell me which taxes you’re raising instead.’ 050
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 01/08/2026The Venn diagram between people posting daily to bash Fauci and people convinced a national sales tax is brilliant feels suspiciously close to a circle. 040
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Other than the WA bar exam fiasco, the worst bar exam story I’ve ever heard is the poor soul who threw up on the person sitting next to them during the July exam. Both were rescheduled to take the February exam. One for vomiting. One for sitting in the splash zone. . 030
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 29/07/2026My heart goes out to everyone who tried to take the Washington bar exam. You spend years in law school, months preparing, thousands of dollars on courses, and countless hours putting your life on hold for a single exam. No matter how this ultimately gets resolved, these examinees deserved better. 213030
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The Trump administration is now referring to frozen embryos as children, and no one is talking about the fact that this makes liquid nitrogen their legal guardian. Somewhere a tank of liquid nitrogen is thinking about the Child Tax Credit. 031
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Nothing ages you like walking into an art show and seeing VHS tapes upcycled into artwork labeled “vintage reclaimed materials.” 1324
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Bernie Sanders posted to say that Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500 and he is proposing to remove the cap on taxable income to generate revenue to keep SS solvent for years. When people hear "remove the Social Security cap," they 1/3 1217
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 14/05/2026You know you are a lawyer when you walk by the openly touchable unattended bread in a Czech grocery store and you cannot stop thinking about the Janus v. Tarasewicz case, which is now the reason we have safety seals on Tylenol bottles (ie cyanide slipped in the bottles). 150
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 08/05/2026It’s usually not a good sign when someone uses the phrase “technically legal.” 160
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Link: news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re... 032
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 12/04/2026I was interviewed by Reveal for their new podcast: “Inside America’s Race to Hide the World’s Money,” re: how the U.S. quietly became one of the best places in the world to park wealth. If you care about money, power, and the legal structures that protect both, link: revealnews.org/podcast/us-t...revealnews.orgIt’s easy, and legal, to avoid paying your taxes by using trusts, but what are the effects?The rich don’t need to go offshore to hide assets—they can do it right here in the US. But if America becomes the world’s tax haven, what are the effects? 095
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Asset protection isn’t about how much money you have. It’s about how easily someone can take it. The trigger is simple: 👉 Can you be sued easily? 👉 Do you have assets worth taking? 👉 Will insurance leave a gap or not fully cover you? 000
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 01/04/2026South Dakota follows equitable distribution, not a clean 50/50 split. That means a judge divides property based on what they think is fair, not necessarily equal. Interestingly, fault can creep in to divorce proceedings in SD. Courts can consider marital misconduct when dividing 1/2 1205
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Some of you have decided to no longer use pillowcases and this feels like something that would cause a divorce for me. 130
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Quoted in a piece examining the intersection of wealth, power, tax and estate planning in the orbit of Leon Black + Epstein. When tax/estate structures get this aggressive, the legal questions are only half the story. The ethical ones tend to be far more revealing. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/b...nytimes.comHow Epstein Helped Solve a Billionaire’s Problems With Women 271
Reposted by Victoria J. HanemanKat Macfarlane @katmacfarlane.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Appreciate this kind of in-depth coverage and the quote from @taxlawprof.bsky.social!nytimes.comHow Epstein Helped Solve a Billionaire’s Problems With Women 153
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Excited to be quoted in this Fast Company article on AI and digital resurrection. The legal problem isn’t just the technology—it’s that existing contracts and doctrines weren’t built for a world where identity can be replicated indefinitely. www.fastcompany.com/91500169/ai-...fastcompany.comAI can make actors immortal—but not everyone wants to become IPThe prospect of digital resurrection of actors isn't just looming for A-listers. Actors across the board are signing contracts that could keep their likeness acting even after they die. 143
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 09/03/2026When approval ratings fall, foreign crises suddenly get very interesting. 020
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 09/03/2026The top 5 warnings signs that tax content on social media is not credible: 1. No credentials, just vibes. If their bio says that they are a tax guru, wealth hacker, 7-figure strategist, or financial architect, but there are no credentials (CPA, EA, attorney). 1/4 160
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Many of the most celebrated men in history have allegedly had affairs. Are we seriously pretending that whether Kristi Noem is sleeping with someone is the scandal that matters? Her career should have ended the moment she bragged about killing a puppy. 2130
Reposted by Victoria J. HanemanUVA Law School @uvalaw.bsky.social · 13/02/2026A paper from Prof. @naomicahn.bsky.social shows how the law often lags behind the development of new technologies, according to @universityofga.bsky.social Prof. Victoria J. Haneman. @taxlawprof.bsky.social @jotwell.bsky.socialtrustest.jotwell.comLeveraging Trust Law to Protect Child Influencers - Trusts & EstatesNaomi Cahn, Trusting Remedies for the Child Influencer Space: Blocked Trust Accounts and Child Beneficiaries, 17 Drexel L. Rev. 971 (2025).Victoria J. HanemanProfessor Naomi Cahn’s recent article, Tru... 012
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Fun inheritance fact In some states, a posthumously conceived child can be biologically yours but legally treated like a stranger for inheritance purposes 040
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 03/02/2026If any money changes hands to keep someone quiet that income is generally taxable to the recipient. Calling it a “gift” doesn’t magically fix it and render it not taxable. The IRS asks: Was this motivated by detached generosity, or was it “please don’t talk” money? Spoiler: NDAs scream the latter. 1163
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Pam Bondi doesn’t just have the worst job in America. She has the worst decision tree. ‘No’ was right there. 1101
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 27/01/2026My middle-school daughter has no idea what a pair of pantyhose or a slip is. And I love this for her. 040
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 27/01/2026On the science of trying to freeze and preserve an embryo versus a corpse: “We know when we try to freeze lettuce and we try to unfreeze it, it's a big goopy mess . . But some other vegetables [like carrots] come up reasonably well.” 020
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I am working on an article and I need you to please spam with every movie or television reference to a character being frozen with cryonics and then later revived. I need people who were frozen for the sake of being frozen—not for space travel but for life extension or imprisonment (eg Hans Solo). 1022
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 26/01/2026“When is the will reading?” —people who are about to learn how probate actually works. (Television invented the will reading.) 070
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Winter storm advisory = the government politely begging you not to create a law school exam fact pattern. 030
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 23/01/2026What we’re watching in the Brooklyn Beckham family drama isn’t a feud. it is a proxy war between two billionaire brands, complete with PR teams laundering power through personality. Victoria is cast as the toxic narcissist; Nicola as the scheming succubus. It’s narrative management in real time. 021
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 23/01/2026I am writing on cryotrusts (trusts for the cryogenically preserved dead). The literature is thin, but what little exists has abused puns beyond ethical recognition. Seriously. Some of these authors have chosen violence: Let’s Be Cool Dead on Arrival Rest in Freeze Gifts of the Future 350
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 14/01/2026POV: you just met the main character 🐶 12 weeks old, longhaired mini dachshund Lucy 040
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 13/01/2026The world seems divided between those who see upstream-flowing tax benefits for the wealthy as a flaw in the system, and those who see them as a feature. 000
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 12/01/2026ChatGPT has taken the em dash from us and that’s how you know the AI revolution has started. 060
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Voting Republican ‘for lower taxes’ is the economic equivalent of ordering off the kids’ menu and calling yourself a foodie. In my experience as a tax lawyer, most people who say this out loud don’t know who gets tax cuts, how they’re structured, or who actually pays. 1132
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Prenups fail most often because of omissions in disclosures. Romance dies in Exhibit B. 010
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Being sued doesn’t necessarily mean you did anything wrong—just that you had assets. Liability follows money like a heat-seeking missile. 010
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 06/01/2026The law asks: “What would a reasonable person do?” With the tension being that some people clearly do not have the faintest clue how the objectively reasonable person would behave. 1135
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 04/01/2026The IRS’s position: “Congratulations on your geopolitical clairvoyance. You owe us money.” And yes, it is ordinary income. The capital gains arguments re: Polymarket are really unlikely to go anywhere. 0143
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Unpopular opinion Telling women to ‘save more’ while childcare eats a mortgage payment is just austerity cosplay. 0245
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 01/01/2026If tax law were actually simple, there wouldn’t be an entire industry built on explaining it poorly on Instagram. I teach several law classes on bad social media tax law and estate planning advice, because it is a great (and fun) way to illustrate so many important concepts. 0237
Victoria J. Haneman @taxlawprof.bsky.social · 30/12/2025From the perspective of a lawyer, the 5 most expensive words in the English language are: It’s a matter of principle. 170