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The Misconstruction Of The Deductions For Business And Personal Casualty Losses, Jeffrey H. Kahn

Scholarly Publications

Losses suffered on an individual's personally used property generally are not deductible. Even after the changes made by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, in two circumstances an exception to this rule applies when "such losses arise from.fire, storm, shipwreck, or other casualty, or from theft." The principal issue that arises is determining the meaning of the term "other casualty." Taking what they deemed to be the common elements in the three explicitly identified casualties, the courts and the Internal Revenue Service determined that an event will qualify as an "other casualty" only if it is "sudden," "unusual," and …

The Inappropriateness Of The Bad Checks Penalty, Jeffrey H. Kahn, Douglas A. Kahn

Scholarly Publications

In this article, the authors argue that the penalty for sending a bad check to the IRS is excessive and that the reasonable cause exception should apply to any honest factual error.

Cancellation Of Debt And Related Transactions, Jeffrey H. Kahn

Scholarly Publications

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Prevention Of Double Deductions Of A Single Loss: Solutions In Search Of A Problem, Jeffrey H. Kahn, Douglas A. Kahn

Scholarly Publications

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Secondary Liability For Federal Trust Fund Taxes, Steve R. Johnson

Scholarly Publications

When collection of unpaid taxes cannot be effected from the person primarily liable for them, the Internal Revenue Code creates for the IRS a number of mechanisms for collection from secondary parties. To satisfy the requirements of fairness and due process, secondary liability is imposed only when the party has some nexus to the liability, that is, when that person's actions helped create the liability or frustrated its collection from the primary taxpayer.

This article discusses l.R.C. § 6672, one of the most widely used and important of the secondary liability mechanisms in tax. There are numerous § 6672 assessments …

Of No Interest: Truth, Substance, And Bargain Borrowing, Joseph W. Jacobs

Florida State University Law Review

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The Continuing Saga Of Prepaid Feed Expense: The Fat Lady Has Not Sung, James D. Wright, Nancy E. Wright

Florida State University Law Review

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Section 302(C)(2): Opportunities And Pitfalls, Michael A. Jones

Florida State University Law Review

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I.R.C. § 302(B)(1): Dividend Equivalency After United States V. Davis, Ronald L. Nelson

Florida State University Law Review

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Capital Gains And Losses: A Primer (Part Two), Thomas J. Gallagher, Jr.

Florida State University Law Review

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Capital Gains And Losses: A Primer (Part One), Thomas J. Gallagher, Jr.

Florida State University Law Review

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Hill Farrer & Burrill, 67 T.C. 411 (1976), David Brian Mursten

Florida State University Law Review

Profit Sharing- NEW DEFINITION OF A PARTNERSHIP "PROFITS INTEREST" DISQUALIFIES AN OTHERWISE QUALIFIED PROFIT SHARING PLAN.