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How To Interpret The Securities Laws?, Zachary J. Gubler
How To Interpret The Securities Laws?, Zachary J. Gubler
Seattle University Law Review
In discussions of the federal securities laws, the SEC usually gets most of the attention. This makes some sense. After all, it is the agency charged with administrating the securities laws and regulating the industry as a whole. It makes the majority of the laws; it engages in enforcement actions; it reacts to crises; and it, or sometimes even its individual commissioners, intervene publicly in policy debates. Often overlooked in such discussion, however, is the role of the Supreme Court in shaping securities law, and a new book by Adam Pritchard and Robert Thompson demonstrates why this is an oversight. …
Reconciling Tax Law And Securities Regulation, Omri Marian
Reconciling Tax Law And Securities Regulation, Omri Marian
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Issuers in registered securities offerings must disclose the expected tax consequences to investors investing in the offered securities (“nonfinancial tax disclosure”). This Article advances three arguments regarding nonfinancial tax disclosures. First, nonfinancial tax disclosure practice, as the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) has sanctioned it, does not fulfill its intended regulatory purposes. Currently, nonfinancial tax disclosures provide irrelevant information, sometimes fail to provide material information, create unnecessary transaction costs, and divert valuable administrative resources to the enforcement of largely-meaningless requirements. Second, the practical reason for this failure is the SEC and tax practitioners’ unsuccessful attempt to address investors’ heterogeneous …
Stapled Securities--"The Next Big Thing" For Income Trusts? Useful Lessons From The Us Experience With Stapled Shares, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, Tim Edgar, Fadi Shaheen
Stapled Securities--"The Next Big Thing" For Income Trusts? Useful Lessons From The Us Experience With Stapled Shares, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, Tim Edgar, Fadi Shaheen
Articles
The Department of Finance has introduced two separate sets of legislation that together attempt to limit demand in the income trust market (though with very different revenue consequences). However, neither the proposed legislation nor the existing Income Tax Act contains an equity recharacterization rule. Consequently, the tax results associated with the standard income trust and royalty trust structures can still be realized with direct holding structures, in which the use of a trust as a pooling mechanism is eliminated and investors hold directly a combination of high-yield junk debt and a specified number of shares of the issuer. Until now, …
The Taxation Of Reinvested Corporate Earnings, Richard L. Doernberg
The Taxation Of Reinvested Corporate Earnings, Richard L. Doernberg
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Income Tax--Tax Free Transfers To Controlled Corporations, Frederick L. Delp, James P. Holland
Income Tax--Tax Free Transfers To Controlled Corporations, Frederick L. Delp, James P. Holland
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Liquidation-Reincorporation Device - Analysis And Proposed Solutions, Bruce D. Lombardo, Thomas C. Riley
The Liquidation-Reincorporation Device - Analysis And Proposed Solutions, Bruce D. Lombardo, Thomas C. Riley
Villanova Law Review
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Known Generally As Corporate Securities, Albert S. Abel
Known Generally As Corporate Securities, Albert S. Abel
West Virginia Law Review
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Definition And Classification Of Securities Under The Revenue Act, Charles C. Parlin
Definition And Classification Of Securities Under The Revenue Act, Charles C. Parlin
Indiana Law Journal
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