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Employment Discrimination Remedies And Tax Gross Ups, Gregg D. Polsky, Stephen F. Befort Oct 2004

Employment Discrimination Remedies And Tax Gross Ups, Gregg D. Polsky, Stephen F. Befort

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This article considers whether a successful employment discrimination plaintiff may be entitled, under current law, to receive an augmented award (a gross up) to neutralize certain adverse federal income tax consequences. The question of whether such a gross up is allowed, the resolution of which can have drastic effects on litigants, has received almost no attention from practitioners, judges, and academics. Because of the potentially enormous impact of the alternative minimum tax (AMT) on discrimination lawsuit recoveries, however, the gross up issue is now beginning to appear in reported cases.

The three principal federal anti-discrimination statutes - Title VII, the …


"More Mighty Than The Waves Of The Sea": Toilers, Tariffs, And The Income Tax Movement, 1880-1913, Ajay K. Mehrotra Jan 2004

"More Mighty Than The Waves Of The Sea": Toilers, Tariffs, And The Income Tax Movement, 1880-1913, Ajay K. Mehrotra

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