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Full-Text Articles in Law
A Look Back In Time: Analyzing The Success And Value Of The 2014 Amendments To Rule 2a-7 And Reporting On Form N-Cr In Light Of The March 2020 Market Events, Jocelyn Near
Catholic University Law Review
Money market funds have frequently been a target of regulation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Perhaps the most expansive regulation came as a response to the 2008 financial crisis, in which the Reserve Primary Fund “broke the buck.” The SEC’s misguided 2014 reforms exacerbated the inherent risks of money market funds, including the risk of runs and first mover advantage, particularly with the implementation of Form N-CR. Form N-CR requires a money market fund to publicly report when various events occur, including when a retail or government money market fund’s current net asset value per share deviates downward …
Public Good Through Charter Schools?, Philip Hackney
Public Good Through Charter Schools?, Philip Hackney
Articles
Should nonprofit charter schools be considered “charitable” under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and be entitled to the benefits that go with that designation (income tax exemption, charitable contribution deduction, etc.)? Current tax law treats them as such; the question is whether there is a good rationale for this treatment. In addition to efficiency and equity, I consider political justice as a value in evaluating tax policy. By political justice, I mean a democratic system that prioritizes the opportunity for more people to have a voice in collective decisions (political voice equality or PVE). Thus, a tax policy …
A More Capacious Concept Of Church, Philip Hackney, Samuel D. Brunson
A More Capacious Concept Of Church, Philip Hackney, Samuel D. Brunson
Articles
United States tax law provides churches with extra benefits and robust protection from IRS enforcement actions. Churches and religious organizations are automatically exempt from the income tax without needing to apply to be so recognized and without needing to file a tax return. Beyond that, churches are protected from audit by stringent procedures. There are good reasons to consider providing a distance between church and state, including the state tax authority. In many instances, Congress granted churches preferential tax treatment to try to avoid excess entanglement between church and state, though that preferential treatment often just shifts the locus of …
On Period Poverty, Victoria J. Haneman
On Period Poverty, Victoria J. Haneman
Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
No abstract provided.
Political Justice And Tax Policy: The Social Welfare Organization Case, Philip Hackney
Political Justice And Tax Policy: The Social Welfare Organization Case, Philip Hackney
Articles
In addition to valuing whether a tax policy is equitable, efficient, and administrable, I argue we should ask if a tax policy is politically just. Others have made a similar case for valuing political justice as democracy in implementing just tax policy. I join that call and highlight why it matters in one arena – tax exemption. I argue that politically just tax policy does the least harm to the democratic functioning of our government and may ideally enhance it. I argue that our right to an equal voice in collective decision making is the most fundamental value of political …
Dark Money Darker? Irs Shutters Collection Of Donor Data, Philip Hackney
Dark Money Darker? Irs Shutters Collection Of Donor Data, Philip Hackney
Articles
The IRS ended a long-time practice of requiring most nonprofits to disclose substantial donor names and addresses on the nonprofit annual tax return. It is largely seen as a battle over campaign finance rather than tax enforcement. Two of the nonprofits involved, social welfare organizations and business leagues, are referred to as “dark money” organizations because they allow individuals to influence elections while maintaining donor anonymity. Many in the campaign finance community are concerned that this change means wealthy donors can avoid campaign finance laws and have no reason to fear being discovered. In this Article, I focus on whether …
Preventing Tax-Exempt Propaganda: The Case For Defining The Second Prong Of The Methodology Test, Jordanne Miller
Preventing Tax-Exempt Propaganda: The Case For Defining The Second Prong Of The Methodology Test, Jordanne Miller
Catholic University Law Review
Under current Treasury Regulations, various propaganda groups throughout the United States are exempt from paying federal income tax. This is so because the current test used by the IRS to determine tax-exempt eligibility, the methodology test, is incapable of separating wild propaganda from viewpoints supported by facts.
The IRS created the methodology test in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Since then, groups denied tax-exempt status have repeatedly challenged its validity. The IRS has responded, and the test has evolved. However, the second prong of the test remains undefined—it is still unclear what it means for facts to be “distorted.” This Comment …
Prop Up The Heavenly Chorus? Labor Unions, Tax Policy, And Political Voice Equality, Philip T. Hackney
Prop Up The Heavenly Chorus? Labor Unions, Tax Policy, And Political Voice Equality, Philip T. Hackney
St. John's Law Review
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This Article contributes to the tax legal literature by providing an analysis of labor unions and how we tax them. Although labor unions as a whole are a very small part of our economy and tax system, by looking at one narrow section of the tax-exempt sector we can shed light on the rest of the exempt sector. Additionally, although most tax policy scholarship focuses on one of three values—equity in an economic sense, efficiency in an economic sense, and administrability—I focus primarily on the value of equity in a governance sense.
I argue that, at least in the …
Post-Graduate Legal Training: The Case For Tax-Exempt Programs, Philip Hackney, Adam Chodorow
Post-Graduate Legal Training: The Case For Tax-Exempt Programs, Philip Hackney, Adam Chodorow
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The challenging job market for recent law school graduates has highlighted a fact well known to those familiar with legal education: A significant gap exists between what students learn in law school and what they need to be practice-ready lawyers. Legal employers historically assumed the task of providing real-world training, but they have become much less willing to do so. At the same time, a large numbers of Americans – and not just those living at or below the poverty line – are simply unable to afford lawyers. In this Article, we argue that post-graduate legal training, similar to post-graduate …
Post-Graduate Legal Training: The Case For Tax-Exempt Programs, Adam Chodorow, Philip T. Hackney
Post-Graduate Legal Training: The Case For Tax-Exempt Programs, Adam Chodorow, Philip T. Hackney
Journal Articles
The challenging job market for recent law school graduates has highlighted a fact well known to those familiar with legal education: A significant gap exists between what students learn in law school and what they need to be practice-ready lawyers. Legal employers historically assumed the task of providing real-world training, but they have become much less willing to do so. At the same time, a large numbers of Americans – and not just those living at or below the poverty line – are simply unable to afford lawyers. In this Article, we argue that post-graduate legal training, similar to post-graduate …
Taxing The Unheavenly Chorus: Why Section 501(C)(6) Trade Associations Are Undeserving Of Tax Exemption, Philip Hackney
Taxing The Unheavenly Chorus: Why Section 501(C)(6) Trade Associations Are Undeserving Of Tax Exemption, Philip Hackney
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Our federal, state, and local governments provide a subsidy that enhances the political voice of business interests. This article discusses the federal subsidy for business interests provided through the Internal Revenue Code (“Code”) and argues why we should end that subsidy. Under the same section that provides exemption from income tax for charitable organizations, the Code also exempts nonprofit organizations classified as “business leagues, chambers of commerce, real-estate boards, boards of trade, or professional football leagues.” Theory supporting tax exemption states that we should subsidize nonprofit organizations that provide goods or services that are undersupplied by the market. A charitable …
Saving The Preachers The Tax Code's Prohibition On Church Electioneering, Nicholas P. Cafardi
Saving The Preachers The Tax Code's Prohibition On Church Electioneering, Nicholas P. Cafardi
Nicholas P. Cafardi
Shifting The Paradigm By Bringing Tax Arbitrage To The Lower Income Separated Family: Why Should The Middle To Upper Class Family Have All The Fun?, Reginald Mombrun
Shifting The Paradigm By Bringing Tax Arbitrage To The Lower Income Separated Family: Why Should The Middle To Upper Class Family Have All The Fun?, Reginald Mombrun
Akron Tax Journal
The background for this article is, of course, the duty of parents to provide sustenance for their children, a duty that necessarily survives the break-up of the family. In this article, I continue to address the problems of the child support system, and I continue to take a holistic view of the problem. A fundamental concept of family law is that the system must do what is in the best interests of the child. Few people will disagree with the soundness of this fundamental concept. However, the problem lies with its application. Although counterintuitive, focusing solely on the child to …
Race And Equality Across The Law School Curriculum: The Law Of Tax Exemption, David A. Brennen
Race And Equality Across The Law School Curriculum: The Law Of Tax Exemption, David A. Brennen
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
What is the relevance of race to tax law? The race issues are apparent when one studies a subject like constitutional law. The Constitution concerns itself explicitly with such matters as defining rights of citizenship, allocating powers of government, and determining rights with respect to property. Given the history of our country -- with slavery followed by periods of de jure and de facto racial discrimination -- these constitutional law matters obviously must have racial dimensions.
Tax law, however, does not generally concern itself explicitly with matters of race. Tax law is often thought of as completely race neutral in …
Restricting The Flow Of Funds From U.S. Charities To International Terrorist Organizations - A Proposal, Mindy Herzfeld
Restricting The Flow Of Funds From U.S. Charities To International Terrorist Organizations - A Proposal, Mindy Herzfeld
UF Law Faculty Publications
This paper argues that the Internal Revenue Service should take a more active stance in denying tax exemption to organizations that finance terrorist activities abroad. The paper explores the well-established principle that organizations granted U.S. tax-exemption must act consistently with national public policy, and the application of that principle to charitable organizations that send monies overseas. To foster that policy, the Service should apply special guidelines to charitable organizations that channel contributions abroad, similar to the special guidelines in effect for tax-exempt private schools. In addition, legislative changes should be made to advance such a goal in order to provide …
Taxing Income From Mailing List And Affinity Card Arrangements: A Proposal, Kevin M. Yamamoto
Taxing Income From Mailing List And Affinity Card Arrangements: A Proposal, Kevin M. Yamamoto
San Diego Law Review
The courts' and the Internal Revenue Code ("Code")2 presently treat
income received by a tax-exempt organization for affinity card programs' and mailing list rentals4 similarly; neither type of income is subject to taxation.5 This Article asserts that equal treatment should not be the case. Because donors have not consented to sell their personal information, the exception for royalty income from the unrelated business income tax ("UBIT") should not permit the tax-free rental of a nonprofit organization's mailing list. Affinity card income, on the other hand, should continue to be nontaxable since any income received from these programs comes from the …
Reinventing Government: The Promise Of Comparative Institutional Choice And Government Created Corporations, Nancy J. Knauer
Reinventing Government: The Promise Of Comparative Institutional Choice And Government Created Corporations, Nancy J. Knauer
Nancy J. Knauer
This Article focuses on a subset of private/public partnerships - those that involve relationships between the public sector and charitable organizations, specifically "government created charitable organizations" (GCCOs). For example, the first President Bush, known as the "Education President," championed the creation of the New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC) as the cornerstone of his education policy. Designed as an independent charitable organization, the NASDC's proposed budget relied on private corporate contributions. In this way, the federal government could assert that it would fund its new educational program without increasing the federal bureaucracy, raising taxes, or cutting other budget items. To …
How Good A Samaritan? Federal Income Tax Exemption For Charitable Hospitals Reconsidered, James B. Simpson, Sarah D. Strum
How Good A Samaritan? Federal Income Tax Exemption For Charitable Hospitals Reconsidered, James B. Simpson, Sarah D. Strum
Seattle University Law Review
Do contemporary charitable hospitals provide a sufficient community benefit to justify the loss of government revenue caused by their tax exemption? Focusing particularly on federal income tax exemption and on the community benefit derived from the provision of services to persons unable to pay, this Article argues that not all hospitals do. Accordingly, the authors recommend that the Internal Revenue Service issue a Revenue Ruling revising the current standards for federal income tax exemption to encourage charitable hospitals to clearly and explicitly identify and respond to health care needs, including the needs of persons unable to pay, in their local …
Evolving Disclosure Practices And Standards Affecting Tax-Exempt Bonds Issued For The Nonprofit Health Care Industry, Robert J. Zimmerman, Daniel J. Rieken
Evolving Disclosure Practices And Standards Affecting Tax-Exempt Bonds Issued For The Nonprofit Health Care Industry, Robert J. Zimmerman, Daniel J. Rieken
Northern Illinois University Law Review
This Article addresses the effects of increasingly stringent disclosure standards under securities laws as such standards affect capital generation by the not for profit health care industry. Recently promulgated Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 15c2-12 and voluntary disclosure standards are analyzed and applied to the health care tax exempt securities transaction. The authors conclude that the health care industry must accept the need for more extensive disclosure than has been the practice.
26 U.S.C. 501(C)(9) Tax Exempt Status Of Voluntary Employees' Benefit Associations, Tony Paxton
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).
Serving Two Masters: Commercial Hues And Tax Exempt Organizations, Lawrence Zelenak
Serving Two Masters: Commercial Hues And Tax Exempt Organizations, Lawrence Zelenak
Seattle University Law Review
This article will describe the statutory and regulatory framework of section 501(c)(3), examine how the test has been applied, criticize the test, and suggest a test more in keeping with the language and the spirit of section 501(c)(3). The proposed test is this: If the questioned activity directly accomplishes an exempt purpose of the organization, and if all profits from the activity are used in a manner consistent with the organization's exempt purposes, 6 then the organization should be granted exempt status, whether or not the organization's activities are imbued with a "commercial hue."
Tax Exempt Financing Of Health Care Facilities As A Component Of The Market Approach To Health Care Cost Containment, George A. King
Tax Exempt Financing Of Health Care Facilities As A Component Of The Market Approach To Health Care Cost Containment, George A. King
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Comment will discuss the current health delivery system in the context of a Market Approach to health care cost containment. Political and financial issues in health care as well as current judicial and tax policies affecting Market Approach theory will be examined. The Comment concludes that targeted tax exempt financing must play a major role in establishing competitive forces in the health care delivery system.
Tax Exempt Religious Schools Under Attack: Conflicting Goals Of Religious Freedom And Racial Integration , Thomas Stephen Neuberger, Thomas C. Crumplar
Tax Exempt Religious Schools Under Attack: Conflicting Goals Of Religious Freedom And Racial Integration , Thomas Stephen Neuberger, Thomas C. Crumplar
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Tax Exempt Religious Schools Under Attack: Conflicting Goals Of Religious Freedom And Racial Integration , Thomas Stephen Neuberger, Thomas C. Crumplar
Tax Exempt Religious Schools Under Attack: Conflicting Goals Of Religious Freedom And Racial Integration , Thomas Stephen Neuberger, Thomas C. Crumplar
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Constitutional Implications Of Withdrawal Of Federal Tax Benefits From Private Segregated Schools - Bob Jones University V. Connally
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
Jury Instructions On Tax Exemption In Personal Injury Cases, Edwin Knachel
Jury Instructions On Tax Exemption In Personal Injury Cases, Edwin Knachel
Cleveland State Law Review
The practical aspects of instructing a jury that the amount of its verdict in a personal injury case is exempt from federal income taxation, of course, relate to the trend of the times. Jury verdicts in personal injury cases throughout the United States have been increasing in amount due to the booming economy of our times and the inflation of the dollar.
Tax Aspects Of Jury Valuation Of Future Earnings, John J. Kennett
Tax Aspects Of Jury Valuation Of Future Earnings, John J. Kennett
Cleveland State Law Review
Whether or not a jury should be instructed, in a personal injury case, that its verdict is exempt from federal income taxation, has been much discussed recently. A most practical element in this problem is the difference between "gross pay" and "take-home pay" in computing the present value of future earnings, when estimating damages. The real question presented by the topic concerns impairment, or deprivation, of future earning capacity. Some of the early English cases which I shall mention considered earnings lost between the time of injury and the time of trial, in addition to the impairment of future earning …
Instructions On Taxes In Personal Injury Suits, Lloyd J. Fingerhut
Instructions On Taxes In Personal Injury Suits, Lloyd J. Fingerhut
Cleveland State Law Review
The Internal Revenue Code enacted in 1954 has continued the 1939 Code provision of law that damages received, whether by suit or agreement, for personal injuries or sickness, are exempt from the Federal income taxation, by providing that such awards are specific exclusions from gross income. In light of this, many defense attorneys engaged in suits of such nature are asking the courts to instruct the jury of such provision, or in their closing arguments mentioning the same. The introduction of the provision in closing arguments has been the cause of many appeals and subsequent reversals due to prejudicial error.