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R&D Tax Incentives--Growth Panacea Or Budget Trojan Horse?, Stephen E. Shay, J. Clifton Fleming Jr., Robert J. Peroni Dec 2016

R&D Tax Incentives--Growth Panacea Or Budget Trojan Horse?, Stephen E. Shay, J. Clifton Fleming Jr., Robert J. Peroni

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Can Tax Expenditure Analysis Be Divorced From A Normative Tax Base?: A Critique Of The 'New Paradigm' And Its Denouement, J. Clifton Fleming Jr., Robert J. Peroni Dec 2010

Can Tax Expenditure Analysis Be Divorced From A Normative Tax Base?: A Critique Of The 'New Paradigm' And Its Denouement, J. Clifton Fleming Jr., Robert J. Peroni

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Tax expenditure analysis (TEA) requires a baseline for identifying tax provisions that provide subsidies or incentives instead of serving to define the tax base and to implement the tax. With respect to the federal income tax, the baseline historically has been the Schanz-Haig-Simons (SHS) definition of income with a few modifications. Critics have continuously and strongly attacked TEA by characterizing the SHS baseline as unprincipled, imprecise, and insufficiently related to our hybrid income/consumption tax system as it actually exists. Since the baseline is hopelessly defective, so the critics argue, TEA is fatally dysfunctional and the results of its application to …


Replacing The Federal Income Tax With A Postpaid Consumption Tax: Preliminary Thoughts Regarding A Government Matching Program For Wealthy Investors And A New Tax Policy Lens, J. Clifton Fleming Jr. Dec 2006

Replacing The Federal Income Tax With A Postpaid Consumption Tax: Preliminary Thoughts Regarding A Government Matching Program For Wealthy Investors And A New Tax Policy Lens, J. Clifton Fleming Jr.

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In recent years, proposals have been made to replace the federal income tax with a postpaid consumption tax - that is, a federal value added tax ("VAT"), a federal retail sales tax ("RST"), or a federal cash-flow (consumed income) tax. Because these taxes can be constructed so that they are indistinguishable at the level of the ultimate consumer in terms of their principal effects, and because a prominent recent proposal is the RST approach, I have written this article in terms of an RST/income tax comparison. The analysis, however, would be mostly the same if the income tax was compared …


Deferral: Consider Ending It Instead Of Expanding It, J. Clifton Fleming Jr. Dec 2000

Deferral: Consider Ending It Instead Of Expanding It, J. Clifton Fleming Jr.

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U.S. Taxation Of Profits From Internet Software Sales - An Electronic Commerce Case Study, J. Clifton Fleming Jr. Dec 1999

U.S. Taxation Of Profits From Internet Software Sales - An Electronic Commerce Case Study, J. Clifton Fleming Jr.

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Getting Serious About Curtailing Deferral Of Us Tax On Foreign Source Income, Robert J. Peroni, J. Clifton Fleming Jr., Stephen E. Shay Dec 1999

Getting Serious About Curtailing Deferral Of Us Tax On Foreign Source Income, Robert J. Peroni, J. Clifton Fleming Jr., Stephen E. Shay

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When a U.S. person conducts business or investment activity abroad through a foreign corporation in a country that imposes only low rates of tax, the so-called deferral privilege allows the U.S. taxpayer to defer substantial amounts of U.S. tax at the cost of only a small foreign levy. Hence, the deferral privilege operates as a tax subsidy of sorts for U.S. persons with operations in low tax foreign countries and provides a major incentive for U.S. persons to shift their business operations and investments to foreign countries that impose little or no tax on the earnings of the foreign corporations.To …


The Deceptively Disparate Treatment Of Business And Investment Interest Expense Under A Cash-Flow Consumption Tax And A Schanz-Haig-Simons Income Tax, J. Clifton Fleming, Jr. Dec 1997

The Deceptively Disparate Treatment Of Business And Investment Interest Expense Under A Cash-Flow Consumption Tax And A Schanz-Haig-Simons Income Tax, J. Clifton Fleming, Jr.

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Ending The Irs As We Know It: Thoughts From Outside The Beltway, J. Clifton Fleming Jr. Dec 1996

Ending The Irs As We Know It: Thoughts From Outside The Beltway, J. Clifton Fleming Jr.

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Scoping Out The Uncertain Simplification (Complication?) Effects Of Vats, Bats, And Consumed Income Taxes, J. Clifton Fleming Jr. Dec 1995

Scoping Out The Uncertain Simplification (Complication?) Effects Of Vats, Bats, And Consumed Income Taxes, J. Clifton Fleming Jr.

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A Second Look At The Zero Basis Hoax, J. Clifton Fleming Jr. Dec 1994

A Second Look At The Zero Basis Hoax, J. Clifton Fleming Jr.

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The Unfinished Business Of Section 1244: Removing The Remaining Traps, J. Clifton Fleming Jr. Dec 1980

The Unfinished Business Of Section 1244: Removing The Remaining Traps, J. Clifton Fleming Jr.

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Has The 1976 Tax Reform Act Injected A Gain-Seeking Requirement Into Section 166?, J. Clifton Fleming Jr. Oct 1977

Has The 1976 Tax Reform Act Injected A Gain-Seeking Requirement Into Section 166?, J. Clifton Fleming Jr.

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