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Legal Ethics And Federal Taxes, 1945-1965: Patriotism, Duties, And Advice, Michael Hatfield May 2011

Legal Ethics And Federal Taxes, 1945-1965: Patriotism, Duties, And Advice, Michael Hatfield

Michael Hatfield

Legal Ethics and Federal Taxes, 1945-1965: Patriotism, Duties, and Advice

ABSTRACT

At a time in which tax reform, tax shelters, and tax protestors are headline news, and the tax bar is debating the appropriate ethical standards for tax advice, Legal Ethics and Federal Taxes, 1945-1965: Patriotism, Duties, and Advice provides a timely historical review of legal ethics and federal taxes. Focusing on the first two decades of the modern income tax (1945-1965), the Article reviews the ethics literature of the tax bar, which was mostly written by very prominent tax lawyers (a founder of Paul, Weiss; partners at Sullivan & …


Legal Ethics And Federal Taxes, 1945-1965: Patriotism, Duties, And Advice, Michael Hatfield May 2011

Legal Ethics And Federal Taxes, 1945-1965: Patriotism, Duties, And Advice, Michael Hatfield

Michael Hatfield

Legal Ethics and Federal Taxes, 1945-1965: Patriotism, Duties, and Advice

ABSTRACT

At a time in which tax reform, tax shelters, and tax protestors are headline news, and the tax bar is debating the appropriate ethical standards for tax advice, Legal Ethics and Federal Taxes, 1945-1965: Patriotism, Duties, and Advice provides a timely historical review of legal ethics and federal taxes. Focusing on the first two decades of the modern income tax (1945-1965), the Article reviews the ethics literature of the tax bar, which was mostly written by very prominent tax lawyers (a founder of Paul, Weiss; partners at Sullivan & …