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Tax Lawyers As Tax Insurance, Heather M. Field May 2019

Tax Lawyers As Tax Insurance, Heather M. Field

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Transactional tax lawyers, by rendering tax opinions, provide a version of insurance to clients. This insurance is clearly incomplete, but by providing a tax opinion, a lawyer conditionally agrees to indemnify the client for at least part of the potential loss the client incurs if the favorable tax treatment described in the opinion is successfully challenged. Although insurance is not the primary function of transactional tax lawyers, and although this Article does not argue that tax opinions should be regulated as insurance, indemnification—a key element of insurance—is an important part of the economic relationship between a client and a lawyer …


Corporate Managers, Agency Costs, And The Rise Of Double Taxation, Steven A. Bank Oct 2002

Corporate Managers, Agency Costs, And The Rise Of Double Taxation, Steven A. Bank

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Standing To Challenge Tax Treatment Of Competitors May 1978

Standing To Challenge Tax Treatment Of Competitors

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No abstract provided.