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Washington and Lee Law Review

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Income tax/Corporations

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Tax, Corporate Governance, And Norms, Steven A. Bank Jun 2004

Tax, Corporate Governance, And Norms, Steven A. Bank

Washington and Lee Law Review

This Article examines the use of federal tax provisions to effect changes in state law corporate governance. There is a growing academic controversy over these provisions, fueled in part by their popularity among legislators as a method of addressing the recent spate of corporate scandals. As a case study on the use of tax to regulate corporate governance, this paper compares and contrasts two measures enacted during the New Deal-the enactment of the undistributed profits tax in 1936 and the overhaul of the tax-free reorganization provisions in 1934-and considers why the former was so much more controversial and less sustainable …


Checkmate, The Treasury Finally Surrenders: The Check-The-Box Treasury Regulations And Their Effect On Entity Classification, Thomas M. Hayes Jun 1997

Checkmate, The Treasury Finally Surrenders: The Check-The-Box Treasury Regulations And Their Effect On Entity Classification, Thomas M. Hayes

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Origins Of Tax Law: The History Of The Personal Service Corporation, J. Timothy Philipps, James S. Mcnider, Iii, Daniel E. Riley Mar 1983

Origins Of Tax Law: The History Of The Personal Service Corporation, J. Timothy Philipps, James S. Mcnider, Iii, Daniel E. Riley

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.