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Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer Quoted In Propublica "The Irs Moves To Limit Dark Money – But Enforcement Still A Question", Lloyd Mayer Dec 2013

Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer Quoted In Propublica "The Irs Moves To Limit Dark Money – But Enforcement Still A Question", Lloyd Mayer

Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer

Lloyd Mayer was quoted in the ProPublica article "The IRS Moves to Limit Dark Money – But Enforcement Still a Question" by Kim Barker. The proposed regulations “are only as good as the extent of compliance with them, which history would indicate requires a realistic threat of enforcement and significant sanctions on the groups involved and probably the individuals running those groups,” said Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, a law professor and associate dean at the University of Notre Dame who specializes in nonprofits and campaign finance.


Lloyd Mayer Was Quoted In Bna, Inc. Money & Politics Report Article "Treasury, Irs Propose New Definition Of Political Activity For Social Welfare Groups.", Lloyd Mayer Dec 2013

Lloyd Mayer Was Quoted In Bna, Inc. Money & Politics Report Article "Treasury, Irs Propose New Definition Of Political Activity For Social Welfare Groups.", Lloyd Mayer

Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer

Lloyd Mayer was quoted in BNA, Inc. Money & Politics Report article Treasury, IRS Propose New Definition Of Political Activity for Social Welfare Groups. by Diane Freda.


Tax In The Cathedral: Property Rules, Liability Rules, And Tax, Andrew Blair-Stanek Nov 2013

Tax In The Cathedral: Property Rules, Liability Rules, And Tax, Andrew Blair-Stanek

Andrew Blair-Stanek

The distinction between property rules and liability rules has revolutionized our understanding of many areas of law. But scholars have long assumed that this distinction has no relevance to tax law. This assumption is flatly wrong. Tax law currently uses both property rules and liability rules, and the choice between them has real consequences. When a taxpayer violates a requirement for a favorable tax status, tax law either imposes additional tax proportionate to the harm (a liability rule) or imposes the draconian penalty of taking away the tax status entirely (a property rule). This recognition has three key implications. First, …


The Death Of The Income Tax: A Progressive Consumption Tax And The Path To Fiscal Reform, Daniel Goldberg Apr 2013

The Death Of The Income Tax: A Progressive Consumption Tax And The Path To Fiscal Reform, Daniel Goldberg

Daniel S. Goldberg

The Death of the Income Tax explains how the current income tax is needlessly complex, contains perverse incentives against saving and investment, fails to use modern technology to ease compliance and collection burdens, and is subject to micromanaging and mismanaging by Congress. Daniel Goldberg proposes that the solution to the problems of the current income tax is completely replacing it with a progressive consumption tax collected electronically at the point of sale.