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Full-Text Articles in Law
History Of Mexico’S Tax Regime: A Haphazard Journey., Nicolás José Muñiz
History Of Mexico’S Tax Regime: A Haphazard Journey., Nicolás José Muñiz
University of Miami Inter-American Law Review
Mexico’s tax regime can best be described as haphazard and uncoordinated, as indirect levies were often assessed to satisfy short-term needs, irrespective of the economic capacity to pay of the local population. When compared to other members of the OECD, Mexico reports a relatively low tax-to-GDP ratio. This may be attributable to the vast presence of small to medium size companies conducting business in the informal market, the comparatively minor percentage of individuals and companies that regularly pay tax, and proliferation of tax benefits historically enjoyed by the wealthy.
This Article covers the more salient features of Mexican tax legislation …
Too Much Salt: Rejecting The Pass-Through Entity Tax As A Salt Deduction Cap Workaround, Timothy Gray Ingram
Too Much Salt: Rejecting The Pass-Through Entity Tax As A Salt Deduction Cap Workaround, Timothy Gray Ingram
Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar
Historically, U.S. taxpayers have been able to deduct their state and local taxes from their federal taxable income. This changed with the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which introduced a $10,000 cap on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction. States have reacted by turning to various methods to mitigate the negative tax consequences of the cap for their residents, including workarounds that use the charitable contribution deduction or a payroll tax as a means to allow full deductibility of state and local taxes.
With the IRS striking down the charitable contribution workaround, and the …
State Workarounds To The Irc's Salt Cap: The Past, The Present, And Building For The Future, Richard Stephenson Mcewan
State Workarounds To The Irc's Salt Cap: The Past, The Present, And Building For The Future, Richard Stephenson Mcewan
Indiana Law Journal
Recently, Congress has debated measures to provide some relief to taxpayers negatively impacted by the Internal Revenue Code’s State and Local Tax (SALT) deductibility limit. Although Congress has not yet budged on whether to adjust this cap, many states have taken it upon themselves to find creative workarounds to provide relief for their constituent taxpayers. In the face of an uncertain future for the current SALT cap, crucial questions exist for these state workarounds and those still to come. This Note carefully lays out the individual income tax issue posed by the SALT cap, before analyzing the core elements of …
Tax Now Or Tax Never: Political Optionality And The Case For Current-Assessment Tax Reform, David Gamage, John R. Brooks
Tax Now Or Tax Never: Political Optionality And The Case For Current-Assessment Tax Reform, David Gamage, John R. Brooks
Articles by Maurer Faculty
The U.S. income tax system is broken. Due to the realization doctrine and taxpayers’ consequent ability to defer taxation of gains, taxpayers can easily minimize or avoid the taxation of investment income, a failure that is magnified many times over when considering the ultra-wealthy. As a result, this small group of taxpayers commands an enormous share of national wealth yet pays paltry taxes relative to the economic income their wealth produces—a predicament that this Article condemns as being economically, politically, and socially harmful.
The conventional view among tax law experts has assumed that the problems created by the realization doctrine …
Tax Now Or Tax Never: Political Optionality And The Case For Current-Assessment Tax Reform, David Gamage, John R. Brooks
Tax Now Or Tax Never: Political Optionality And The Case For Current-Assessment Tax Reform, David Gamage, John R. Brooks
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The U.S. income tax is broken. Due to the realization doctrine and taxpayers’ consequent ability to defer taxation of gains, taxpayers can easily minimize or avoid the taxation of investment income, a failure that is amplified many times over when considering the ultra-wealthy. As a result, this small group of taxpayers commands an enormous share of national wealth yet pays paltry taxes relative to the economic income their wealth produces—a predicament that this Article condemns as being economically, politically, and socially harmful.
The realization doctrine is widely justified as an accommodation made for administrative convenience. Although there have been numerous …
Taxing Parents: Welfarist Theories, Shannon Weeks Mccormack
Taxing Parents: Welfarist Theories, Shannon Weeks Mccormack
Articles
The Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”) taxes parents inequitably. Couples with a sole earner are under-taxed compared to couples with dual earners or single parents. Previous scholarship has identified these inequities and then argued that this sole earner bias should be eliminated. These arguments, however, have often been incomplete. Simply establishing that an inequity exists does not create a full argument for legal reform. After all, the Code plays favorites all the time. Scholars have traditionally turned to theories of distributive justice when evaluating whether tax preferences are warranted. These theories offer competing visions about the way resources should be …
Kaestner Fails: The Way Forward, Mitchell M. Gans
Kaestner Fails: The Way Forward, Mitchell M. Gans
William & Mary Business Law Review
This past term, the Supreme Court applied the Due Process Clause to prevent the states from closing down a tax strategy that employs out-of-state trusts. Many had hoped that the case would serve as a vehicle for the Court to overrule taxpayer-friendly precedents that make the strategy possible. But it failed. The question that emerges is whether the decision leaves the states with a path to address the strategy and thereby prevent it from being used to exacerbate issues of inequality. After examining the decision, this Article considers the options available to the states and then suggests a way forward.
Caregivers And Tax Reform: Before And After Snapshots, Shannon Weeks Mccormack
Caregivers And Tax Reform: Before And After Snapshots, Shannon Weeks Mccormack
Articles
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) changed the way families are taxed, starting in tax year 2018. By rearranging a myriad of deck chairs, politicians painted rosy pictures of families reaping the benefits of tax reform. In reality, however, generalizations cannot be made and the extent to which any one family gains or loses depends on particular facts. Even more obscured is the way in which the TCJA changed –– and failed to change –– the taxation of different types of caregivers. This Essay seeks to provide needed clarity in this area. It begins by offering snapshots of how …
Uniform International Tax Collection And Distribution For Global Development, A Utopian Beps Alternative, Henry Ordower
Uniform International Tax Collection And Distribution For Global Development, A Utopian Beps Alternative, Henry Ordower
All Faculty Scholarship
Under the guise of compelling multinational enterprises (MNEs) to pay their fair share of income taxes, the OECD and other multinational agencies have introduced proposals to prevent MNEs from eroding the income tax base of developed economies by continuing to shift income artificially to low or zero tax jurisdictions. Some of the proposals have garnered substantial multinational support, including recent support from the new U.S. presidential administration for a global minimum tax. This Article reviews many of those international proposals. The proposals tend to concentrate the incremental tax revenue from the prevention of base erosion into the treasuries of the …
A Tax Hike Liberals And Conservatives Should Both Like, Nathan B. Oman
A Tax Hike Liberals And Conservatives Should Both Like, Nathan B. Oman
Nathan B. Oman
No abstract provided.
Taxing Systemic Risk, Eric D. Chason
Taxing Systemic Risk, Eric D. Chason
Eric D. Chason
A tax on the harmful elements of finance—a tax on systemic risk—would raise revenue and also lower the likelihood of future crisis. Financial institutions, which pay the tax, would try to minimize its cost by lowering their systemic risk. In theory, a tax on systemic risk is perfect policy. In practice, however, this perfect policy is unattainable. Tax laws need clear definitions to be administrable. Our current understanding of systemic risk is too abstract and too metaphorical to serve as a target for taxation.
Despite the absence of a clear definition of systemic risk, academics and policy makers continue to …
Extending The Taxation-Of-Risk Model To Timing Options And Marked-To-Market Taxes, Eric D. Chason
Extending The Taxation-Of-Risk Model To Timing Options And Marked-To-Market Taxes, Eric D. Chason
Eric D. Chason
No abstract provided.
Domicile In Multistate Personal Income Tax Residency Matters: Enter The Swamp At Your Own Peril, Scott R. Thomas
Domicile In Multistate Personal Income Tax Residency Matters: Enter The Swamp At Your Own Peril, Scott R. Thomas
Pace Law Review
This Article argues that states should remove the domicile concept from the definition of a resident and rely solely on an objective test or tests. Part I of this Article defines the terms resident and domicile using examples from the laws of Massachusetts, Minnesota, and New York. Part II discusses the problems created for individuals and state taxing authorities in the application of a subjective standard, the burden and standard of proof applied, and the domicile or residency bias of states. Part III describes how Congress defines a resident of the United States and the rationale behind Congress’s movement away …
Taxing "All Other Income" In Singapore And Malaysia, Vincent Ooi
Taxing "All Other Income" In Singapore And Malaysia, Vincent Ooi
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
Section 10(1)(g) of the Singapore Income Tax Act is a ‘sweeping-up’ provision which catches all income not falling under sections 10(1)(a)–(f). More than 50 years after its introduction, the application of section 10(1)(g) is still unclear despite the test laid out in IB v CIT. This article notes that the current jurisprudence is limited to cases involving gains or profits from the disposal of assets. It argues that the reliance on the Australian Myer Emporium test in IB v CIT was misplaced and that the section 10(1)(g) test should not have a sole focus on intention. Rather, it proposes a …
Afterlife Of The Death Tax, Samuel D. Brunson
Afterlife Of The Death Tax, Samuel D. Brunson
Indiana Law Journal
More than a century ago, Congress enacted the modern estate tax to help pay for World War I. Unlike previous iterations of the estate tax, though, this one outlived the war and accumulated additional goals beyond merely raising revenue. The estate tax helped ensure the progressivity of the tax system as a whole, and it limited the hereditary ability to accumulate wealth.
This modern estate tax almost instantly met with opposition, though. The opposition has never been sufficient to entirely eliminate the estate tax, but it has severely weakened its ability to raise revenue and to prevent the accumulation of …
Cryptocurrency Hard Forks And Revenue Ruling 2019-24, Eric D. Chason
Cryptocurrency Hard Forks And Revenue Ruling 2019-24, Eric D. Chason
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Taxing Combat, Samuel Kan
Taxing Combat, Samuel Kan
Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)
When you are being shot at or dodging landmines you are in a combat zone. Diplomatic niceties aside, these brave warriors are in danger because of the policies of their Government and we must take care of them. Quite frankly, we must act to insure that we do not have a repeat of what happened in Somalia. In Somalia, the families of the soldiers who lost their lives could not receive the benefits that should have gone to them under the Tax Code because the President never declared it a combat zone.
We don’t know exactly where we’re at in …
Cybersecurity And Tax Reform, Michael Hatfield
Cybersecurity And Tax Reform, Michael Hatfield
Indiana Law Journal
INTRODUCTION
I. THE PAST AND FUTURE OF THE IRS AS A CYBERATTACK TARGET
A. IRS AS A CYBERATTACK TARGET
B. THE FUTURE OF THE IRS AS A CYBERATTACK TARGET1. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
2. TAX INFORMATION
3. TYPES OF FUTURE ATTACKS
II. THE IRSWILL FAIL TO IMPLEMENT ADEQUATE CYBERSECURITY
A. VERY POOR HISTORY OF IMPROVING TECHNOLOGY
B. INADEQUATE FUNDING
C. INABILITY TO RECRUIT AND RETAIN EXPERTS
D. TOOMANY USERS
E. CYBERSECURITY IS DIFFICULT
III. BETTER DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IS NOT THE GOAL
A. SLOWING THE USE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
B. CYBERSECURITY AND TAX REFORM
1. PAY-AS-YOU-EARN (PAYE)
2. SIMPLIFIED INCOME TAX
3. PURIFIED …
Taxing Systemic Risk, Eric D. Chason
Taxing Systemic Risk, Eric D. Chason
Faculty Publications
A tax on the harmful elements of finance—a tax on systemic risk—would raise revenue and also lower the likelihood of future crisis. Financial institutions, which pay the tax, would try to minimize its cost by lowering their systemic risk. In theory, a tax on systemic risk is perfect policy. In practice, however, this perfect policy is unattainable. Tax laws need clear definitions to be administrable. Our current understanding of systemic risk is too abstract and too metaphorical to serve as a target for taxation.
Despite the absence of a clear definition of systemic risk, academics and policy makers continue to …
The Enigma Of Wynne, Edward A. Zelinsky
The Enigma Of Wynne, Edward A. Zelinsky
William & Mary Business Law Review
The five-justice Wynne majority used that case to make a major statement about the dormant Commerce Clause. In many respects, Wynne is an enigma that perpetuates an inherent problem of the Courts dormant Commerce Clause doctrine: the Court declares some ill-defined taxes as unconstitutionally discriminatory because they encourage in-state investment, while other economically equivalent taxes and government programs that similarly encourage intrastate economic activity are apparently acceptable under the dormant Commerce Clause.
Wynne is thus more important than the immediate situation it addresses, and will have consequences beyond the immediate circumstances it addresses. A decision as enigmatic as it is …
Integrating The Corporate Income Tax, John Mcnulty
Integrating The Corporate Income Tax, John Mcnulty
John K. McNulty
No abstract provided.
Preserving The Virtues Of Subchapter S In An Integrated World, John Mcnulty
Preserving The Virtues Of Subchapter S In An Integrated World, John Mcnulty
John K. McNulty
No abstract provided.
Economic Fables/Tax-Related Foibles: On The Cost Of Promissory Notes, Guarantees, Contingent Liabilities And Nonrecourse Loans, Babette Barton
Economic Fables/Tax-Related Foibles: On The Cost Of Promissory Notes, Guarantees, Contingent Liabilities And Nonrecourse Loans, Babette Barton
Babette Barton
No abstract provided.
Subchapter K And Passive Financial Intermediation, Mark P. Gergen
Subchapter K And Passive Financial Intermediation, Mark P. Gergen
Mark P. Gergen
No abstract provided.
The Common Knowledge Of Tax Abuse, Mark P. Gergen
The Common Knowledge Of Tax Abuse, Mark P. Gergen
Mark P. Gergen
No abstract provided.
Of More Than Usual Interest: The Taxing Problem Of Debt Principal, Charlene D. Luke
Of More Than Usual Interest: The Taxing Problem Of Debt Principal, Charlene D. Luke
Seattle University Law Review
Leverage is an essential but often troubling component of the U.S. market. The financial crisis highlighted the risks and complexity of a leverage web that includes flesh-and-blood people from all walks of life and paper people from all corners of the business and investment world. In the tax area, the potentially problematic incentive effects of interest deductibility have long engaged a wide array of tax commentators and policymakers. While interest deductibility rightly receives widespread scrutiny, a more comprehensive approach to leverage is needed. This Article focuses on the surprisingly complicated tax treatment of cash (and cash equivalent) borrowings. This Article …
Federal Tax Update, Stephen L. Owen
Federal Tax Update, Stephen L. Owen
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Can Wealth Taxes Be Justified, Eric Rakowski
The United States Tax Court - A Court For All Parties, T. Fogg
The United States Tax Court - A Court For All Parties, T. Fogg
T. Keith Fogg
This article seeks to explain the role of the Tax Court both within the system of taxation and the system of tribunals of the United States. To provide this explanation, the article will address several specific areas: 1) the mission of the Court; 2) the placement of the Court within the judicial system and the scope of its jurisdiction; 3) selection of judicial officers of the Court; 4) the internal organization of the Court and its opinions; 5) access to the Court; 6) policy issues facing the Court; and 7) interaction between the Court and the public outside the courtroom. …
Net Investment Income Tax Planning, Jeanne M. Sullivan
Net Investment Income Tax Planning, Jeanne M. Sullivan
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.