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The Story Of The Separate Corporate Income Tax: A Vehicle For Regulating Corporate Managers, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
The Story Of The Separate Corporate Income Tax: A Vehicle For Regulating Corporate Managers, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
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The corporate income tax is under attack. The former Secretary of the Treasury has announced that it should be abolished, and the current drive to eliminate the taxation of dividends can be seen as the first step toward that goal. A significant number of tax academics have argued for repeal of the tax. Other academics have urged radical reform of the tax. And no serious academic has in recent years mounted a convincing normative defense of why this cumbersome tax should be retained.
And yet it does not seem likely that the corporate tax will be repealed any time soon. …