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Reasoned Explanation And Irs Adjudication, Steve R. Johnson
Reasoned Explanation And Irs Adjudication, Steve R. Johnson
Scholarly Publications
Under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), an administrative action can be invalidated as arbitrary and capricious if the agency fails to sufficiently explain the reasons for its choices. This principle applies to agency adjudication as well as to agency rulemaking. How does this principle apply to IRS adjudications? Examining five paradigms of IRS decisionmaking, this Article first establishes that the IRS does engage in APA–style adjudication. The Article then examines tax-specific explanation requirements and asks whether a more robust explanation duty patterned on the APA should be imposed on IRS determinations. Based on a variety of legal and prudential considerations, …
Tax Favors For Philanthropy: Should Our Republic Underwrite De Tocqueville's Democracy?, Rob Atkinson
Tax Favors For Philanthropy: Should Our Republic Underwrite De Tocqueville's Democracy?, Rob Atkinson
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This article critically reviews the current rationales for the federal income tax system's favorable treatment of philanthropy, gives those rationales a new descriptive synthesis based on de Tocqueville's account of American democracy, and offers a normative alternative based on neo-classical ethical and political theory. It first identifies the two basic normative questions: What is the function of philanthropy that warrants favorable tax treatment, and how well does favorable tax treatment advance that function? It then examines the answers of three distinct phases of normative tax theory: the traditional subsidy thesis, the antithetical technical definition of income theory, and a set …
The Individual Mandate Tax Penalty, Jeffrey H. Kahn
The Individual Mandate Tax Penalty, Jeffrey H. Kahn
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In 2010, President Obama signed legislation that significantly altered the healthcare and health insurance markets in the United States. An integral part of that reform is the individual mandate, a provision that requires individuals to purchase and maintain healthcare insurance. Failure to maintain such coverage subjects an individual to a tax penalty. The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of that provision under Congress’s taxing power.
Despite the Supreme Court upholding the individual mandate, fundamental questions remain. This Article addresses the question of whether the use of a tax penalty to encourage taxpayers to do something that the government desires is …
Loving And Legitimacy: Irs Regulation Of Tax Return Preparation, Steve R. Johnson
Loving And Legitimacy: Irs Regulation Of Tax Return Preparation, Steve R. Johnson
Scholarly Publications
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Reflections On Home Concrete, Steve R. Johnson
Reflections On Home Concrete, Steve R. Johnson
Scholarly Publications
Positive statutory law – principally the Internal Revenue Coe – is the most important source of tax rules. Despite its volume, however, the Code contains many gaps. Tax regulations promulgated by the Department of the Treasury are the principal vehicles for filling the most important gaps.
When consistent with the Code and issued pursuant to proper procedures, Treasure Regulations have the force of law. The validity of Treasury Regulations has been a major battleground in contemporary tax litigation. In the last five years alone, the issue has arisen in high profile cases such as Swallows, Mannella, Lantz, Mayo, Dominion Resources, …