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    Please see this link for the final version of the McMaster Philosophy Department’s notice for Barry Allen. There is some…

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Cornell is telling its graduate students their tuition waivers are “scholarships,” and so not taxable even under the House Republican tax plan

Story here.  It's clear that the closer the connection is between the tuition waiver and work duties at the university, the clearer it is that it is taxable.  But whether simply calling it a "scholarship" will satisfy the tax authorities remains to be seen.  I imagine the Republicans may take a different view.

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