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The Marriage Tax Revisited: An Analysis Of The Tax Consequences Of Marriage, Dan Subotnik Jun 1988

The Marriage Tax Revisited: An Analysis Of The Tax Consequences Of Marriage, Dan Subotnik

West Virginia Law Review

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What Has Happened To The Tax Legislative Process?, Pamela Brooks Gann May 1988

What Has Happened To The Tax Legislative Process?, Pamela Brooks Gann

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Showdown at Gucci Gulch: Lawmakers, Lobbyists and the Unlikely Triumph of Tax Reform by Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and Alan S. Murray


Cadillacs, Gold Watches, And The Tax Reform Act Of 1986: The Continuing Evolution Of The Tax Treatment Of Gifts To Employees, Mark W. Cochran Jan 1988

Cadillacs, Gold Watches, And The Tax Reform Act Of 1986: The Continuing Evolution Of The Tax Treatment Of Gifts To Employees, Mark W. Cochran

Akron Tax Journal

The purpose of this article is to explore the historical background underlying the changes in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, to explain the changes, and to assess their meaning and significance?


Traveling Expenses To Temporary Job Sites Kohr V. United States Walraven V. Commissioner, John Ney Jan 1988

Traveling Expenses To Temporary Job Sites Kohr V. United States Walraven V. Commissioner, John Ney

Akron Tax Journal

The issue addressed in this update is the current status of the deductibility of traveling expenses to temporary job sites. The analysis is a comparison of two recent cases: Kohr v. United States I and Walraven v. Commissioner.' Kohr involves the granting of a summary judgment in favor of the taxpayer from the District Court. In Walraven, the Eighth Circuit affirmed a Tax Court ruling in favor of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Both cases involve construction workers who maintained residences that were considerable distances from their employment. Both were employed at a nuclear power plant construction project, and both …


Unitary Theory Of Stock Ownership Fink V. Commissioner, Janis Stamm Jan 1988

Unitary Theory Of Stock Ownership Fink V. Commissioner, Janis Stamm

Akron Tax Journal

In Commissioner v. Fink,' the Supreme Court held that a dominant shareholder who voluntarily surrenders a portion of his shares to the corporation, while retaining control, does not sustain an immediate loss deductible for income tax purposes. Such a surrender of stock must be treated as a contribution to capital, the basis of the surrendered shares being reallocated to the remaining shares held and loss or gain recognized only when the shareholder disposes of the remaining shares.


Constructive Receipt Of Income Baxter V. Commissioner, Adam M. Ekonomon Jan 1988

Constructive Receipt Of Income Baxter V. Commissioner, Adam M. Ekonomon

Akron Tax Journal

In Baxter v. Commissioner, the court decided whether taxpayer Baxter had constructively received $13,095 of commissions he had earned in 1978. Baxter, a cash basis taxpayer, received a check in the mail for these commissions in early 1979. The check was dated December 30, 1978. Treasury Regulation Section 1.451-2(a) controls and provides, in part, that a taxpayer constructively receives income when it is otherwise made available to draw upon at any time, even though it is not reduced to the taxpayer's possession. However, there is no constructive receipt if "taxpayer's control of its receipt is subject to substantial limitations or …


26 U.S.C. 501(C)(9) Tax Exempt Status Of Voluntary Employees' Benefit Associations, Tony Paxton Jan 1988

26 U.S.C. 501(C)(9) Tax Exempt Status Of Voluntary Employees' Benefit Associations, Tony Paxton

Akron Tax Journal

This article discusses Canton Police Benevolent Association v. United States and it's implications related to 26 U.S.C. 501(c)(9).


Report On Transfer Tax Restructuring, K. Jay Holdsworth, Ronald D. Aucutt, Edward B. Benjamin Jr., Kenneth W. Bergen, James B. Lewis Jan 1988

Report On Transfer Tax Restructuring, K. Jay Holdsworth, Ronald D. Aucutt, Edward B. Benjamin Jr., Kenneth W. Bergen, James B. Lewis

Akron Tax Journal

This report is submitted to the Council of the Section of Taxation, American Bar Association as a proposed response to the request of the Treasury Department for suggestions for reform of the Federal transfer taxes (the estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes). That request was contained in a letter dated November 19, 1985, from Ronald A. Pearlman, the Assistant Secretary (Tax Policy), to Hugh Calkins, then Section Chair.' After receiving individual comment papers on the subject from members of the Section's Committee on Estate and Gift Taxes, Mr. Calkins, on April 14, 1986, created this Task Force and asked it …


Should General Utilities Be Reinstated To Provide Partial Integration Of Corporate And Personal Income—Is Half A Loaf Better Than None?, Douglas A. Kahn Jan 1988

Should General Utilities Be Reinstated To Provide Partial Integration Of Corporate And Personal Income—Is Half A Loaf Better Than None?, Douglas A. Kahn

Articles

The General Utilities doctrine is the name given to the now largely defunct tax rule that a corporation does not recognize a gain or a loss on making a liquidating or nonliquidating distribution of an appreciated or depreciated asset to its shareholders. The roots of the doctrine, can be traced to a regulation promulgated in 1919 that denied realization of gain or loss to a corporation when making a liquidating distribution of an asset in kind. No regulatory provision existed which specified the extent to which realization would or would not be triggered by a nonliquidating distribution such as a …