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The Matthew Effect And Federal Taxation, Martin J. Mcmahon Jr.
The Matthew Effect And Federal Taxation, Martin J. Mcmahon Jr.
Martin J. McMahon
The “Matthew Effect” is a synonym for the well-known colloquialism, “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.” This Article is about the Matthew Effect in the distribution of incomes in the United States and the failure of the federal tax system to address the problem. There has been a strong Matthew Effect in incomes in the United States over the past few decades, with an increasing concentration of income and wealth in the top one percent. Nevertheless, there has been a continuing trend of enacting disproportionately large tax cuts for those at the top of the income pyramid. …
Is Federalization Of Charity Law All Bad? What States Can Learn From The Internal Revenue Code, Melanie B. Leslie
Is Federalization Of Charity Law All Bad? What States Can Learn From The Internal Revenue Code, Melanie B. Leslie
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The Intersection Of Tax And Bankruptcy: The Mccoy Rule, John Ferguson
The Intersection Of Tax And Bankruptcy: The Mccoy Rule, John Ferguson
John Ferguson
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The Contemporary Tax Journal’S Interview Of Pam Olson, Stuti Seth
The Contemporary Tax Journal’S Interview Of Pam Olson, Stuti Seth
The Contemporary Tax Journal
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What's Wrong With A Federal Inheritance Tax?, Wendy G. Gerzog
What's Wrong With A Federal Inheritance Tax?, Wendy G. Gerzog
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Scholars have proposed a federal inheritance tax as an alternative to the current federal transfer tax, but there are serious flaws with that idea. In existing inheritance tax systems, those problems include: (1) different tax rates and exemptions based on the decedent’s relationship to the beneficiary; (2) the lack of a tax on lifetime gratuitous transfers, including gifts with retained interests or control; and (3) the persistence of most current valuation distortion abuses. In any inheritance tax model, moreover, there would be significantly decreased compliance rates and increased administrative costs because by focusing on the transferees instead of the transferor, …
Van Alen: A Reasonable Consistency, Wendy G. Gerzog
Van Alen: A Reasonable Consistency, Wendy G. Gerzog
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In Van Alen, the Tax Court held that the duty of consistency required that two of the decedent’s children use the section 2032A basis valuation figures to determine gain on the sale of their interest in the decedent’s ranch, which was left to them in trust. The siblings had argued that their stepmother erroneously completed their father’s estate tax return.