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Abandoning Realization And The Transition Tax: Toward A Comprehensive Tax Base, Henry Ordower Dec 2019

Abandoning Realization And The Transition Tax: Toward A Comprehensive Tax Base, Henry Ordower

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Phantom Income And Domestic Support Obligations, Timothy M. Todd Apr 2019

Phantom Income And Domestic Support Obligations, Timothy M. Todd

Buffalo Law Review

The tax code is designed to raise government revenue. Domestic support obligations (DSOs)—namely, child support and spousal support—are designed to ameliorate the financial burdens that arise upon divorce. To determine the amount of domestic support obligations, statutes often refer to commonly used taxation concepts, such as “income.”

Courts determining domestic support obligations have been confronted with the question of how to treat “phantom income”—that is, amounts that are includible as gross income under the federal tax code but that have not resulted in any actual current cash receipt. Individuals obligated to make domestic support payments have argued that phantom income …


Failed Charity: Taking State Tax Benefits Into Account For Purposes Of The Charitable Deduction, Roger Colinvaux Aug 2018

Failed Charity: Taking State Tax Benefits Into Account For Purposes Of The Charitable Deduction, Roger Colinvaux

Buffalo Law Review

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) substantially limited the ability of individuals to deduct state and local taxes (SALT) on their federal income tax returns. Some states are advancing schemes to allow taxpayers a state tax credit for contributions to a charity controlled by the state. The issue is whether state tax benefits are deductible as a charitable contribution for purposes of the federal income tax. Under a general rule of prior law—the full deduction rule—state tax benefits were ignored for purposes of the charitable deduction. If the full deduction rule is applied to the state workaround schemes, then …


A Way Forward For Tax Law And Economics? A Response To Osofsky's "Frictions, Screening, And Tax Law Design", David Gamage Jan 2014

A Way Forward For Tax Law And Economics? A Response To Osofsky's "Frictions, Screening, And Tax Law Design", David Gamage

Buffalo Law Review

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Who's Naughty And Who's Nice? Frictions, Screening, And Tax Law Design, Leigh Osofsky Dec 2013

Who's Naughty And Who's Nice? Frictions, Screening, And Tax Law Design, Leigh Osofsky

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Role Tax Preparers Play In Taxpayer Compliance: An Empirical Investigation With Policy Implications, Sagit Leviner Aug 2012

The Role Tax Preparers Play In Taxpayer Compliance: An Empirical Investigation With Policy Implications, Sagit Leviner

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Power To Tax Is The Power To Foreclose: Reuniting Law And Logic In Tribal Immunity From Suit, Mary E. Saitta Jan 2012

The Power To Tax Is The Power To Foreclose: Reuniting Law And Logic In Tribal Immunity From Suit, Mary E. Saitta

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Taxing Facebook Code: Debugging The Tax Code And Software, Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Jeffrey A. Maine Jan 2012

Taxing Facebook Code: Debugging The Tax Code And Software, Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Jeffrey A. Maine

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Tax Equity, Anthony C. Infanti Jan 2008

Tax Equity, Anthony C. Infanti

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Region And Taxation: School Finance, Cities, And The Hope For Regional Reform, Myron Orfield May 2007

The Region And Taxation: School Finance, Cities, And The Hope For Regional Reform, Myron Orfield

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Taxing Risk: An Approach To Variable Insurance Reform, Charlene D. Luke May 2007

Taxing Risk: An Approach To Variable Insurance Reform, Charlene D. Luke

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Agenda Setting In Supreme Court Tax Cases: Lessons From The Blackmun Papers, Nancy C. Staudt Jul 2004

Agenda Setting In Supreme Court Tax Cases: Lessons From The Blackmun Papers, Nancy C. Staudt

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Education Expense Epiphanies, Malcolm L. Morris Apr 1999

Education Expense Epiphanies, Malcolm L. Morris

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Restoring Tortiously Damaged Human Capital Tax-Free Under Internal Revenue Code Section 104(A)(2)'S New Physical Injury Requirement, F. Philip Manns Jr. Apr 1998

Restoring Tortiously Damaged Human Capital Tax-Free Under Internal Revenue Code Section 104(A)(2)'S New Physical Injury Requirement, F. Philip Manns Jr.

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Deductibility Of Loan Origination Costs, Alan B. Rosenthal Apr 1995

Deductibility Of Loan Origination Costs, Alan B. Rosenthal

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Distinguishing Interest From Damages: A Proposal For A New Perspective, Alice G. Abreu Apr 1992

Distinguishing Interest From Damages: A Proposal For A New Perspective, Alice G. Abreu

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Tefra And The Origination Clause: Taking The Oath Seriously, Thomas L. Jipping Apr 1986

Tefra And The Origination Clause: Taking The Oath Seriously, Thomas L. Jipping

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Federal Tax Liens And State Homestead Exemptions: The Aftermath Of United States V. Rodgers, Terrence C. Brown-Steiner Jan 1985

Federal Tax Liens And State Homestead Exemptions: The Aftermath Of United States V. Rodgers, Terrence C. Brown-Steiner

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Tax Superiority In Bankruptcy—A Study Of Business Bankruptcy Distributions In The Southern And Western Districts Of New York, Peter D. Wolfson Oct 1977

Tax Superiority In Bankruptcy—A Study Of Business Bankruptcy Distributions In The Southern And Western Districts Of New York, Peter D. Wolfson

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Impact Of Canadian Income Tax Law On Domestic Subsidiaries Of U.S. Corporations—B.C. And A.D., James A. Rendall Oct 1967

The Impact Of Canadian Income Tax Law On Domestic Subsidiaries Of U.S. Corporations—B.C. And A.D., James A. Rendall

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Burden Of Proof In Tax Litigation: Offset And Equitable Recoupment, Richard M. Johnson Apr 1966

Burden Of Proof In Tax Litigation: Offset And Equitable Recoupment, Richard M. Johnson

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


"Property" In The Capital Asset Definition: Influence Of "Fruit And Tree", Louis A. Del Cotto Oct 1965

"Property" In The Capital Asset Definition: Influence Of "Fruit And Tree", Louis A. Del Cotto

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Taxation—Unconstitutional License Fees Recoverable In Absence Of Formal Protest, Joseph S. Forma Oct 1963

Taxation—Unconstitutional License Fees Recoverable In Absence Of Formal Protest, Joseph S. Forma

Buffalo Law Review

Five Boros Elec. Contractors Ass'n Inc. v. City of New York, 12 N.Y.2d 146, 187 N.E.2d 774, 237 N.Y.S.2d 315 (1963).


Some Reflections About The Impact Of Federal Taxation On American Private Law, Joseph T. Sneed Apr 1963

Some Reflections About The Impact Of Federal Taxation On American Private Law, Joseph T. Sneed

Buffalo Law Review

The James McCormick Mitchell Lecture, delivered at the Statler Hilton Hotel, Buffalo, New York, November 16, 1962.


Commentaries On Professor Sneed's Lecture, Donald C. Lubick Apr 1963

Commentaries On Professor Sneed's Lecture, Donald C. Lubick

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Commentaries On Professor Sneed's Lecture, Ernest J. Brown Apr 1963

Commentaries On Professor Sneed's Lecture, Ernest J. Brown

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Preface, J. D. Hyman Apr 1963

Preface, J. D. Hyman

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Commentaries On Professor Sneed's Lecture, Walter J. Blum Apr 1963

Commentaries On Professor Sneed's Lecture, Walter J. Blum

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Professor Sneed's Reply, Joseph T. Sneed Apr 1963

Professor Sneed's Reply, Joseph T. Sneed

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Need For A Court Of Tax Appeals: An Argument And A Study, Louis A. Del Cotto Oct 1962

The Need For A Court Of Tax Appeals: An Argument And A Study, Louis A. Del Cotto

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.