2025-02-12
TaxProf Blog is a great resource put together by Paul Caron. TaxProf Blog surfaces many interesting tax articles and publications. I used to check the blog every day. Unfortunately, I just don’t have the time to do this anymore.
TaxProf Blog offers an RSS feed of all the posts and an RSS feed just for tax-related posts. However, I have found that I am often not interested in some of the recurring tax-related posts. For example, I am not particularly interested in tax professor rankings, tax professor moves, job offerings, calls for nominations or papers, etc.
I decided to create a Python script that: (1) retrieves links to the tax-related posts for the past week, (2) filters to exclude items I am not interested in, and then (3) sends me an email with links to the filtered posts. I get this email once a week, which is much more manageable.
The Python code has been uploaded to Github, for anyone else who might be interested in creating a similar script.