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Tax Law Uncertainty And The Role Of Tax Insurance, Kyle D. Logue Jan 2005

Tax Law Uncertainty And The Role Of Tax Insurance, Kyle D. Logue

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In the broadest sense, this is an article about legal or regulatory uncertainty and the role that private and public insurance can play in managing it. More narrowly, the article is about tax law enforcement and the familiar if ill-defined distinctions between tax evasion, tax avoidance, and abusive tax avoidance. Most specifically, the article is about a new type of tax risk insurance policy, sometimes called tax indemnity insurance or transactional tax risk insurance that provides coverage against the risk that the Internal Revenue Service (Service) will disallow a taxpayer-insured's tax treatment of a particular transaction. The question is whether …


Personal Holding Companies And The Revenue Act Of 1964, Jerome B. Libin Jan 1965

Personal Holding Companies And The Revenue Act Of 1964, Jerome B. Libin

Michigan Law Review

By 1964, many years had elapsed since significant changes were made in the federal income tax treatment of so-called "personal holding companies." For that reason alone, any amendments contained in the Revenue Act of 1964 that dealt with personal holding companies would have deserved attention. But the fact is that the changes made by the 1964 Act are so powerful in their thrust that they require the most careful kind of study by every practitioner charged with advising closely held corporations. Since the new provisions are rather complicated in nature, such a study cannot lead to a full understanding of …


Taxation-Federal Income Taxation-The Three-Party Sale And Lease-Back, Lawrence R. Velvel S.Ed. Apr 1963

Taxation-Federal Income Taxation-The Three-Party Sale And Lease-Back, Lawrence R. Velvel S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

The so-called sale and lease-back device has long been the subject of judicial and governmental scrutiny. The Internal Revenue Service has recently decided to begin a more active campaign of enforcement against a certain three-party variation of the sale and lease-back device. The structure of this variation can be best understood by considering the following hypothetical situation.


Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Worthless Debt Of Corporation Deductible Only As A Nonbusiness Bad Debt By Creditor-Partnership, Larry W. Waggoner Jun 1962

Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Worthless Debt Of Corporation Deductible Only As A Nonbusiness Bad Debt By Creditor-Partnership, Larry W. Waggoner

Michigan Law Review

A partnership formed for the purpose of holding and renting real estate and "such other business and enterprises" as might be agreed upon by the partners loaned 120,000 dollars to a corporation which manufactured liquid hair spray for women. This was the only loan the partnership had made. The controlling shareholder in the debtor-corporation was another corporation of which every shareholder was either a parent or grandparent of the partners. The debtor-corporation was to repay the loan in monthly installments of 3,000 dollars plus interest at the rate of twelve percent on the unpaid balance. When the debt became worthless, …


Taxing Distributions Pursuant To Corporate Reorganizations, William M. Emery Feb 1952

Taxing Distributions Pursuant To Corporate Reorganizations, William M. Emery

Michigan Law Review

"Distributions" implies that we are concerned with the tax problems of the stockholder rather than those of the corporation. And while one corporation may be the stockholder of another, my emphasis will be primarily upon stockholders who are individuals, including, of course, trusts and estates who are taxed as individuals.


Taxation-Income Tax-Corporation Not Taxable On A Sale Of Property By Stockholders Following Genuine Liquidation Distribution, R. Lawrence Storms S.Ed. Jun 1950

Taxation-Income Tax-Corporation Not Taxable On A Sale Of Property By Stockholders Following Genuine Liquidation Distribution, R. Lawrence Storms S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

The stockholders of a closely held electric utility corporation offered to sell all the corporate stock to a cooperative competitor. The cooperative countered with an offer to buy a part of the corporation's physical assets. Hoping to avoid a heavy corporate capital gains tax, the stockholders caused the corporation to distribute to them in partial liquidation the property in question, and then executed the previously contemplated sale themselves. The commissioner assessed and collected a capital gains tax from the corporation which then sued and recovered the amount of the tax in the court of claims. On appeal, held, affirmed. …


Taxation - Social Security - Dissolution Of Corporation And Formation Of Partnership As Means Of Avoiding Tax, Arthur P. Boynton Apr 1939

Taxation - Social Security - Dissolution Of Corporation And Formation Of Partnership As Means Of Avoiding Tax, Arthur P. Boynton

Michigan Law Review

The O Company surrendered its corporate charter and began operating under an agreement purporting to establish a partnership relation between the former officers and employees whereby complete management including the power to employ, discharge and control the duties of its members was vested in a "board of control" elected by and subject to changes made by the majority in interest. Net profits and losses were shared in proportion to the respective interests. The firm could be dissolved only by a vote of the majority in interest and not by transfer of interest, death or resignation of a member. Advice was …