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Domestic International Sales Corporations (Discs): How They Provide A Tax Incentive For Exports, Garrison R. Cox
Domestic International Sales Corporations (Discs): How They Provide A Tax Incentive For Exports, Garrison R. Cox
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This Note examines the logical and empirical validity of the reasons for the passage of the DISC legislation. Basically, the DISC legislation was prompted by the negative trade balance in 1971, a novel phenomenon in post-World War II United States. Providing a tax break on producers' export income was viewed as a way of reducing trade deficits by stimulating exports. On its surface, using "tax expenditures" to reach this goal seems logical, or at least benign. But when one considers that the primary thrust of the legislation was to encourage small producers to enter the export market, the logic of …