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Did The Sixteenth Amendment Ever Matter? Does It Matter Today?, Erik M. Jensen
Did The Sixteenth Amendment Ever Matter? Does It Matter Today?, Erik M. Jensen
Faculty Publications
This article, prepared for a symposium on the centennial of the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment, argues that the Amendment was legally and politically necessary in 1913, if there was going to be a modern income tax, and that it remains significant today. The Amendment provides that “taxes on incomes” need not be apportioned among the states on the basis of population, as would otherwise be required for direct taxes. An apportioned income tax would be an absurdity, and, if there were no Amendment, Congress could not enact an unapportioned tax on income from property, the sort of tax that …
The Tiley Trilogy And U.S. Anti-Avoidance Law, Erik M. Jensen
The Tiley Trilogy And U.S. Anti-Avoidance Law, Erik M. Jensen
Faculty Publications
This article examines an influential set of articles, written by Professor John Tiley in the late 1980s, about anti-avoidance doctrines developed by US courts. The trilogy of articles was written for a British audience, as part of Tiley’s efforts to resist importation of US doctrines (“bleeding chunks of alien doctrine,” as he put it) into the UK, but his ideas remain relevant to tax theorists in all countries, including the US. The article also examines the work of the Aaronson Committee, of which Tiley was a member, which successfully recommended in 2011 that the UK adopt a general anti-avoidance rule …