Incoming president of the ABA Tax Section Stanley Blend spoke at the U.S. Tax Court Judicial Conference on the 20th of April about tax patents. Calling the idea of patenting tax strategies "a threat to the American tax system", Blend vowed to work to undo this new idea that tax strategies can be patented.
Blend is a partner at Oppenheimer, Blend, Harrison & Tate Inc. in San Antonio, Texas. Before joining the firm in the early 1970s, he was with the tax court litigation division of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington.
For more information about tax patents, see earlier postings here and here, as well as the ABA Tax Section task force website.
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