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Tax Reform Unraveling, Michael J. Graetz
Tax Reform Unraveling, Michael J. Graetz
Faculty Scholarship
The Tax Reform Act of 1986 was widely heralded as the most significant change in our nation’s tax law since the income tax was extended to the masses during World War II. It was the crowning domestic policy achievement of President Ronald Reagan, who proclaimed it “the best antipoverty measure, the best pro-family measure and the best job-creation measure ever to come out of the Congress of the United States” (Reagan, 1986). This journal published a symposium on the Tax Reform Act in its first issue. The law’s rate reductions and base broadening reforms were mimicked throughout the countries belonging …
An Introduction To The Governance And Taxation Of Not-For-Profit Organizations, Patrick Bolton, Hamid Mehran
An Introduction To The Governance And Taxation Of Not-For-Profit Organizations, Patrick Bolton, Hamid Mehran
Center for Contract and Economic Organization
This paper provides a brief overview of the current state of the not-for-profit sector and discusses specific governance issues in not-for-profit organizations. We offer an in-depth analysis of the issues that arise when not-for-profit organizations compete against for-profit firms in the same markets. We argue that while competition by for-profit firms can discipline not-for-profit firms and mitigate their governance problems, the effects of this competition are distorted by the not-for-profits’ corporate income tax exemptions. Based on a simple general equilibrium analysis, we argue that there is little justification for such exemptions.
Income Tax Discrimination And The Political And Economic Integration Of Europe, Michael J. Graetz, Alvin C. Warren Jr.
Income Tax Discrimination And The Political And Economic Integration Of Europe, Michael J. Graetz, Alvin C. Warren Jr.
Faculty Scholarship
In recent years, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has invalidated many income tax law provisions of European Union (EU) member states as violating European constitutional treaty guarantees of freedom of movement for goods, services, persons, and capital. These decisions have not, however, been matched by significant EU income tax legislation, because no EU political institution has the power to enact such legislation without unanimous consent from the member states. In this Article, we describe how the developing ECJ jurisprudence threatens the ability of member states to use tax incentives to stimulate their domestic economies and to resolve problems of …
Why Start-Ups?, Joseph Bankman, Ronald J. Gilson
Why Start-Ups?, Joseph Bankman, Ronald J. Gilson
Faculty Scholarship
The prototypical start-up involves an employee leaving her job with an idea and selling a portion of that idea to a venture capitalist. In many respects, however, the idea should be worth more to the former employer. The former employer can be expected to have better information concerning the employee-entrepreneur and the technology, have opportunities to capture economies of scale and scope not available to a venture capital-backed start-up, and will receive more favorable tax treatment than the start-up should the innovation fail. In connection with an auction of the idea, the former employer should have both a more accurate …