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Full-Text Articles in Law
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
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
Faculty Scholarship
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 …
Déjà Vu All Over Again? Reflections On Auerbach's 'Modern Corporate Tax', Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Déjà Vu All Over Again? Reflections On Auerbach's 'Modern Corporate Tax', Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Law & Economics Working Papers
This paper comments on Alan Auerbach's "A Modern Corporate Tax" (Hamilton Project/CAP, December 2010) and argues that it is not a significant improvement over previous proposals to replace the corporate tax with a cash flow tax.
Transfer Pricing, Business Restructurings And Intangibles - Case Studies: Ups V. Commissioner; Dsg Retail Ltd. V. Hmrc, Richard Thompson Ainsworth
Transfer Pricing, Business Restructurings And Intangibles - Case Studies: Ups V. Commissioner; Dsg Retail Ltd. V. Hmrc, Richard Thompson Ainsworth
Faculty Scholarship
United Parcel Service of America, the largest motor carrier in the US, and DSG Retail the largest retailer of electrical goods in the UK, restructured operations and established captive insurance companies in offshore tax havens. In both instances, these restructurings removed sizeable amounts of income from the domestic tax base.
The IRS and HMRC opened transfer pricing audits. The UPS case involved tax year 1984 and was settled in 2003; DSG Retail involved 1997 through 2005 and was settled in 2009. Both settlements came on the heels of government-favorable court decisions, and prior to the addition of Chapter IX to …
Tilted Versus Reasonable Interpretation Of Tax Law, Steve R. Johnson
Tilted Versus Reasonable Interpretation Of Tax Law, Steve R. Johnson
Scholarly Publications
In part, Interpretation Matters is about the craft of advocacy, how statutory interpretation arguments can be effectively made – and effectively countered – in state and local tax cases. For example, when one’s opponent in such a case invokes one or another of the canons of construction, how is that canon to be blunted?
One strategy we often have explored is fighting fire with fire – that is, identifying and asserting another recognized canon that leads to an opposite conclusion. One of the most famous articles on statutory interpretation arrayed dozens of pairs of canons that seemingly contradict each other. …
Conservation Easement Appraisal Rules And Questions, Stephen J. Small
Conservation Easement Appraisal Rules And Questions, Stephen J. Small
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Conservation Easements, Appraisals Thereof, And Form 8283 - The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Stephen J. Small
Conservation Easements, Appraisals Thereof, And Form 8283 - The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Stephen J. Small
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Tax Strategies And Key Tax Issues In Selling A Business, Part 2, Robert G. Mcelroy
Tax Strategies And Key Tax Issues In Selling A Business, Part 2, Robert G. Mcelroy
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Some Points Re Perpetuity - Code And Regulations
Some Points Re Perpetuity - Code And Regulations
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Tax Notes Article, Stephen J. Small
Tax Notes Article, Stephen J. Small
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Estate Planning For The Closely Held Business, Dennis I. Belcher, William I. Sanderson
Estate Planning For The Closely Held Business, Dennis I. Belcher, William I. Sanderson
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Tax Strategies And Key Tax Issues In Selling A Business, Part 1, L. Michael Gracik Jr.
Tax Strategies And Key Tax Issues In Selling A Business, Part 1, L. Michael Gracik Jr.
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Using - And Not Losing - Tax Losses, Part 1: Protecting Tax Losses From A Section 382 Ownership Change (Slides), Mark C. Van Deusen
Using - And Not Losing - Tax Losses, Part 1: Protecting Tax Losses From A Section 382 Ownership Change (Slides), Mark C. Van Deusen
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Using - And Not Losing - Tax Losses, Part 2 (Slides), Steven M. Friedman
Using - And Not Losing - Tax Losses, Part 2 (Slides), Steven M. Friedman
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Tax Planning In This Uncertain Environment, Eric Solomon
Tax Planning In This Uncertain Environment, Eric Solomon
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks - Emerging Tax Issues For Distressed Real Estate Assets And Partnerships (Slides), Michael G. Frankel, David A. Miller
Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks - Emerging Tax Issues For Distressed Real Estate Assets And Partnerships (Slides), Michael G. Frankel, David A. Miller
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks - Emerging Tax Issues For Distressed Real Estate Assets And Partnerships, Michael G. Frankel, David A. Miller
Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks - Emerging Tax Issues For Distressed Real Estate Assets And Partnerships, Michael G. Frankel, David A. Miller
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Políticas Públicas Para Enfrentar Los Desafíos Proporcionados Por Las Rentas Económicas: El Caso Del Impuesto Específico A La Minería, Andrew Linville
Políticas Públicas Para Enfrentar Los Desafíos Proporcionados Por Las Rentas Económicas: El Caso Del Impuesto Específico A La Minería, Andrew Linville
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
La economía chilena es fuertemente dependiente en la explotación y exportación de productos primarios y en sectores de recursos naturales, como los sectores minero, forestal, pesquero, y frutícola. El modelo de desarrollo emprendido por Chile en los últimos treinta años, uno de apertura unilateral y bilateral a flujos de bienes y capital, ha dado importancia especial a las políticas impositivas y reguladoras entorno a esos sectores. Sin embargo, la explotación de recursos naturales escasos proporciona un rango de desafíos únicos debido a la existencia de rentas económicas y los efectos de competencia, distribución y desarrollo regional que las acompañan. Mi …
Construing Wills And Trusts During The Estate Tax Hiatus In 2010, S. Alan Medlin, F. Ladson Boyle
Construing Wills And Trusts During The Estate Tax Hiatus In 2010, S. Alan Medlin, F. Ladson Boyle
Faculty Publications
Many estate planners have drafted wills and revocable trusts with dispositive provisions based on formulas. These formulas often use language based on transfer tax terminology. For clients who die in 2010, the language used in these formulas will be ambiguous, if not apparently meaningless, because Congress failed to re-institute the estate tax for 2010. The resulting 2010 estate tax hiatus will result in will and revocable trust construction problems for the estates of many decedents who die during the hiatus. Courts will have to use statutory and common law construction methods to attempt to determine the decedent's dispositive intentions. This …
The Civil Judicial Subsidy, Brendan S. Maher
The Civil Judicial Subsidy, Brendan S. Maher
Faculty Scholarship
American society does not require civil litigants to bear the actual cost of using the court; those costs are borne almost entirely by the taxpayer (i.e., the “civil judicial subsidy”). In this Article I ask: is that right? Or is there a more desirable way to apportion court usage costs between the state and litigants?
I develop an evaluative framework that facilitates analysis of the purpose, contours, and cost of the current judicial subsidy. We subsidize court use because, in theory, there are certain “social positives” associated with public adjudication. To date the unspoken assumption has been that these social …
Equity And Efficiency In Intellectual Property Taxation, Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Jeffrey A. Maine
Equity And Efficiency In Intellectual Property Taxation, Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Jeffrey A. Maine
Faculty Publications
This article evaluates the Current US income tax regime governing intellectual property by focusing on the traditional principles of tax policy - tax fairness and efficiency. It highlights the shortcomings of the current tax system in fulfilling both of these tenets.
Pennsylvania's Sales And Use Tax: Has Nearly $1 Billion Been 'Zapped' Away In Fraud?, Richard Thompson Ainsworth
Pennsylvania's Sales And Use Tax: Has Nearly $1 Billion Been 'Zapped' Away In Fraud?, Richard Thompson Ainsworth
Faculty Scholarship
The Sales and Use Tax is an essential part of Pennsylvania’s revenue profile. Not only is it the State’s second largest revenue source, it has historically played a critical role in reducing the volatility of Pennsylvania’s overall tax collections. The sales tax is also critical to the city of Philadelphia, and Allegheny County. During the current economic downturn both the revenue and structural attributes of this levy should be pushing it to the front of the tax policy line.
The two topics that should rest atop Pennsylvania’s tax policy agenda should be: (1) joining the Streamlined Sales Tax initiative and …
Pro & Con: Should Congress Adopt A New Tax Credit For Buying A Home? Yes: No Recovery Is Possible If Homeowners Lose Their Homes, Jessica D. Gabel
Pro & Con: Should Congress Adopt A New Tax Credit For Buying A Home? Yes: No Recovery Is Possible If Homeowners Lose Their Homes, Jessica D. Gabel
Faculty Publications By Year
No abstract provided.
The Case For Dividend Deduction, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, Amir C. Chenchinski
The Case For Dividend Deduction, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, Amir C. Chenchinski
Law & Economics Working Papers
There have been various proposals made in the past two decades to integrate the corporate and shareholder tax, including dividend exemption, imputation, and the Comprehensive Business Income Tax (CBIT). In our view, the problem with all of these proposals is that they omit to ask the crucial question of why we should tax business entities in the first place. Taxes, the economists tell us, are always borne by human beings, not by legal entities. Why should legal entities, be they corporations or other forms of business entity, be subject to tax at all? Would it not be easier to just …
Taxing Punitive Damages, Gregg D. Polsky, Dan Markel
Taxing Punitive Damages, Gregg D. Polsky, Dan Markel
Scholarly Works
There is a curious anomaly in the law of punitive damages. Jurors assess punitive damages in the amount that they believe will best “punish” the defendant. But, in fact, defendants are not always punished to the degree that the jury intends. Under the Internal Revenue Code, punitive damages paid by business defendants are tax deductible and, as a result, these defendants often pay (in real dollars) far less than the jury believes they deserve to pay.
To solve this problem of under-punishment, many scholars and policymakers, including President Obama, have proposed making punitive damages nondeductible in all cases. In our …
Vat Fraud - Technological Solutions, Richard Thompson Ainsworth
Vat Fraud - Technological Solutions, Richard Thompson Ainsworth
Faculty Scholarship
Every VAT/GST allows missing trader fraud. The fraud is simple, and can be simply prevented (with technology). The fraud arises when a business makes a purchase without paying VAT, collects VAT on an onward sale, and then “disappears” without remitting the tax. Missing trader fraud is common in high-value/low-volume goods sold across borders – computer chips and cell phones are the classic examples. But the fraud easily migrates when pursued. It operates well with goods as wide ranging as xenon bulbs, automobiles, and earth moving equipment.
The recent appearance of MTIC fraud in tradable CO2 permits and VoIP is a …
The Power Of Warm Glow, Usha Rodrigues
The Power Of Warm Glow, Usha Rodrigues
Scholarly Works
Professor Brian Galle’s Keep Charity Charitable is a thoughtful contribution to the ongoing conversation about the proper tax treatment of charitable organizations. I largely agree with Galle’s arguments, but I would like to offer two criticisms of his positions: first, Galle overstates the problem posed by for-profit firms offering charitable services; and second, he understates the power of “warm glow” in the nonprofit organization.
State Fiscal Policies And Transitory Income Fluctuations, James R. Hines Jr.
State Fiscal Policies And Transitory Income Fluctuations, James R. Hines Jr.
Articles
State and local expenditure and tax revenue respond less to the business cycle than do federal spending and revenue, thereby reducing the countercyclicality of total government expenditure and revenue. This paper considers forces responsible for the cyclical pattern of state expenditure and revenue. Annual fluctuations in state personal income are associated with small changes in state spending and significant changes in tax receipts; receipt of federal grants is associated with greater state spending. Tax collections, and to a lesser degree expenditure, of larger states are more closely associated with annual income fluctuations than are the tax collections and expenditure of …
The Judicial Instinct To Harmonize Statutes, Steve R. Johnson
The Judicial Instinct To Harmonize Statutes, Steve R. Johnson
Scholarly Publications
Judges like to reach results that harmonize statutory meanings, both meanings within given statutes and meanings among statutes. That inclination applies as fully in tax cases as in nontax cases, and in state and local tax cases as well as in federal tax cases. Effective advocates in state-local tax controversies recognize that judicial tropism and use it, whenever possible, in their clients’ interests.
Part I discusses the harmonization instinct generally. Part II illustrates application of the harmonization approach in state and local cases. Part III notes some limitations on and unsettled questions regarding the harmonization.
Taxation As Regulation: Carbon Tax, Health Care Tax, Bank Tax And Other Regulatory Taxes, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Taxation As Regulation: Carbon Tax, Health Care Tax, Bank Tax And Other Regulatory Taxes, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Law & Economics Working Papers
This paper addresses three questions: 1. Is regulation a legitimate goal for taxation? 2. Which tax is best suited for regulation? 3. Would it be better to allocate just one goal per tax among the major taxes (individual and corporate income tax and VAT)? It then analyzes the proposed bank tax and the enacted health care tax as regulatory taxes, and concludes that the first is desirable (as is a carbon tax) but the second is not.