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Stategraft, Bernadette Atuahene, Timothy Hodge Jan 2018

Stategraft, Bernadette Atuahene, Timothy Hodge

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Although sometimes difficult to detect, governmental power abuses can have detrimental impacts. Property tax assessments provide an effective lens to examine this phenomenon because, given the complexity of calculating property tax assessments, it is difficult for citizens to know when local government has exceeded its legitimate taxing authority and crossed into the realm of illegal extraction. Michigan is an ideal case study because it protects property owners by making assessment-related power abuses more visible through a unique state constitutional provision: property tax assessments cannot exceed 50 percent of a property’s market value. Abuses have persisted nevertheless. Between 2011 and 2015, …


The Tax Treatment Of Cancelled Interest And Penalties On Consumer Debt, Richard C.E. Beck Jan 2009

The Tax Treatment Of Cancelled Interest And Penalties On Consumer Debt, Richard C.E. Beck

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