Writings about the Joint Committee on Taxation
Representative Eugene Keogh (New York), “Colin Stam and the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation,” Cong. Record 102:11, July 26, 1956, p. 14762.
Representative Daniel A. Reed (New York), “The Staff of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation,” Cong. Record 102:11, July 27, 1956, pp. 15341-15342.
Stanley S. Surrey, The Congress and The Tax Lobbyist – How Special Tax Provisions Get Enacted,” Harvard Law Review, vol. 70, no. 7, May 1957, pp. 1145-1182.
“Lovell H. Parker, Revenue Specialist,” The Washington Post and Times-Herald, January 18, 1961.
E.W. Kenworthy, “Colin F. Stam: A Study in Anonymous Power” in Delia Kuhn and Ferdinand Kuhn (eds.), Adventures in Public Service, The Vanguard Press, Inc., 1963.
“Colin Stam Dead; Guided Tax Bills,” The New York Times, January 7, 1966.
John F. Manley, “Congressional Staff and Public Policy-Making: The Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation,” The Journal of Politics, vol. 30, no. 4, November 1968, pp. 1046-1067.
John L. Connolly, “Colin F. Stam—The Individual,” in Essays on Taxation: Contributed in Memory of Colin F. Stam, Tax Foundation, Inc., 1974.
Art Pine, “Lawrence Woodworth, Expert On U.S. Tax Laws, Dies at 59,” The Washington Post, December 7, 1977.
Lawrence J. Haas, “Protection Squad,” National Journal, May 26, 1990, pp. 1270-1274.
Michael Livingston, "What's Blue and White and Not Quite as Good as a Committee Report: General Explanations and the Role of "Subsequent" Tax Legislative History," American Journal of Tax Policy, vol. 11, no. 1, Spring 1994, pp. 91-124.
Diana Lisa Erbsen, “The Joint Committee Refund Review Function: Is It ‘Worth a Damn’?,” Tax Notes, July 8, 1996, pp. 227-232.
Donald L. Korb, Jeffry J. Erney, and Gregory J. Gawlik, "Rethinking Refund Review: Understanding the Joint Committee on Taxation," Corporate Business Taxation Monthly, vol. 4, no. 2, November 2002, pp. 3-10.
Travis M. Seegmiller, “The New Gray Area for the “Blue Book” After Robinson v. Commissioner: Twelve Factors to Keep in Mind When Using the Blue Book as a Tool of Statutory Interpretation,” Tax Lawyer, vol. 57, no. 3, Spring 2004, pp. 833-844.
Bernard (Bob) Shapiro, Lindy Paull, Bill Archer, and Pamela Olson, "The Role of Tax Policy in the Development of Tax Legislation: Larry Woodworth's Era and Now," Ohio Northern University Law Review, vol. 32, 2006, pp. 1-22.
Thomas J. Callahan, Gregory J. Gawlik, and Jon R. II Stefanik, "Joint Committee Refund Review: Twelve Questions to Consider," Journal of Tax Practice and Procedure, vol. 10, no. 5, October-November 2008, pp. 19-55.
George K. Yin, “Legislative Gridlock and Nonpartisan Staff, Norte Dame Law Review, vol. 88, no. 5, June 2013, pp. 2287-2322.
George K. Yin, “The Role of Nonpartisan Staff in the Legislative Process,” Tax Notes, vol. 139, no. 12, June 17, 2013, pp.1415-1421.
George K. Yin, "James Couzens, Andrew Mellon, the Greatest Tax Suit in the History of the World, and the Creation of the Joint Committee on Taxation and Its Staff," Tax Law Review, vol. 66, no. 4, Summer 2013, pp. 787-880.
Cole Barnett, “United States v. Woods and the Future of the Tax Blue Book as a Means of Penalty Avoidance and Statutory Interpretation,” Florida Law Review, vol. 66, no. 4, 2014, pp. 1791-1802.
Amandeep S. Grewal, "The Congressional Revenue Service." University of Illinois Law Review, vol. 2014, no. 3, 2014, pp. 689-736.
Eric Kroh, “JCT Will Review a Refund if It’s Big Enough,” Tax Notes, vol. 143, no. 2, April 14, 2014, pp. 160-162.
George K. Yin, “The Joint Committee on Taxation and Codification of the Tax Laws,” United States Capitol Historical Society, February 2016.
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, “The Joint Tax Committee’s Secret Public Service,” Tax Notes, vol. 151, no. 4, April 25, 2016, pp. 525-527.
Randall D. Weiss and James W. Wetzler, “The Evolution of Economics at the Joint Committee on Taxation, Part 1,” Tax Notes, vol. 151, no. 7, May 16, 2016, pp. 983-1000.
Randall D. Weiss and James W. Wetzler, “The Evolution of Economics at the Joint Committee on Taxation, Part 2,” Tax Notes, vol. 151, no. 8, May 23, 2016, pp. 1113-1124.
Bernard M. ‘‘Bob’’ Shapiro, “The Last 50 Years: The Evolving Role of the Joint Tax Committee,” Tax Notes, vol. 151, no. 8, May 23, 2016, pp. 1125-1131.
Joseph J. Thorndike, “JCT Investigation of Nixon’s Tax Returns,” Tax Notes, vol. 151, no. 11, June 13, 2016, pp. 1527-1536.
John M. Samuels, “The Joint Committee Staff — From the Outside Looking In,” Tax Notes, vol. 151, no. 12, June 20, 2016, pp. 1711-1729.
George K. Yin, “A Maritime Lawyer, Percentage Depletion, and the JCT,” Tax Notes, vol. 152, no. 12, September 19, 2016, pp. 1695-1705.
Clinton G. Wallace, “Congressional Control of Tax Rulemaking,” Tax Law Review, vol. 71, no. 1, Fall 2017, pp. 179-252.
George K, Yin, "How Codification of the Tax Statutes and the Emergence of the Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation Helped Change the Nature of the Legislative Process," Tax Law Review, vol. 71, no. 4, Summer 2018, pp. 723-780.
Jesse Drucker, “Edward Kleinbard, Tax Lawyer Turned Reformer, Dies at 68,” The New York Times, July 10, 2020.
Sarah Gonzalez and Jacob Goldstein, “Trump’s Tiny Taxes,” Planet Money, September 30, 2020.
Jasper L. Cummings, Jr, “Joint Committee Refund Review,” Tax Notes Federal, vol. 175, no. 4, April 25, 2022, pp. 601-613.
Joshua D. Blank and Leigh Osofsky, “Simplicity Lost,” Pittsburgh Tax Review, vol. 20, no. 1, Fall 2022, pp. 105-143.
George K. Yin, “Textualism, the Authoritativeness of Congressional Committee Reports, and Stanley Surrey,” Law and Contemporary Problems, vol. 86, no. 2, 2023, pp. 107-135.