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Business Associations -- 1960 Tennessee Survey, Kenneth L. Roberts
Business Associations -- 1960 Tennessee Survey, Kenneth L. Roberts
Vanderbilt Law Review
Two opinions of the court of appeals during the survey period-one unpublished-discussed the fiduciary duties owing by officers and directors to their corporations. In Harriman Welding Supply Co. v. Lake City Lightweight Aggregate Corp.,' Presiding Judge McAmis of the eastern section found occasion to state the principles applicable when the fairness of contracts between two corporations having interlocking directorates is questioned.
State And Local Taxation -- 1960 Tennessee Survey, Paul J. Hartman
State And Local Taxation -- 1960 Tennessee Survey, Paul J. Hartman
Vanderbilt Law Review
A congressional statute that became law on September 14, 1959,severely curtails the power of all state and local governments to impose net income taxes. This statute was the aftermath of the Northwestern-Stockham decision, and a series of cases soon to follow, by the United States Supreme Court, which held that neither the due process nor the commerce clause bars the way to a nondiscriminatory, properly apportioned state tax levied directly on net income derived exclusively from interstate commerce. These decisions by the Supreme Court caused such a furor in the business world that demands were soon made on Congress for …
Tax And Other Legal Aspects Of The Corporate Practice Of Medicine, Jerry B. Martin
Tax And Other Legal Aspects Of The Corporate Practice Of Medicine, Jerry B. Martin
Vanderbilt Law Review
With the coming of regulations allowing doctors the tax advantages of corporate employees, the doctors will probably be more solidly behind the positions of the AMA in favor of the prohibition against the corporate practice of medicine. For example, at least one state group, the Tennessee State Medical Association, has recently adopted a resolution against practicing medicine in the corporate form, and there have been no recent reports of state associations taking the opposite position. The American Hospital Association which seems to lead the opposition to the corporate practice rule does not attack the rule as being intrinsically bad but …
Non-Tax Aspects Of Thin Incorporation, Thomas H. Rainey Jr.
Non-Tax Aspects Of Thin Incorporation, Thomas H. Rainey Jr.
Vanderbilt Law Review
The coveted privilege of conducting business in the corporate form is not an unconditional grant.' As consideration for granting the corporate privilege of doing business with limited liability, the law requires that the shareholders "put at the risk of the business some stake which shall appear reasonably adequate for its prospective needs." This "stake," characterized as equity capital, represents that portion of the shareholders' capital investment which is required by law as the basis of financial responsibility for the protection of corporate creditors. This special fund is substituted for the personal liability which the participants would otherwise have for the …