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The Dual Subsidy Theory Of Charitable Deductions, Ilan Benshalom Oct 2009

The Dual Subsidy Theory Of Charitable Deductions, Ilan Benshalom

Indiana Law Journal

Americans contribute billions of dollars to charities on an annual basis. Charitable contributions not only represent American generosity, they also represent a form of giving that provides donors with tax relief The current literature on charitable contributions suggests that this relief plays an important role not only in decentralizing the provision of public goods, but also in helping the nonprofit sector provide public goods more efficiently than government spending. Even if these claims were indisputable, they are insufficient to justify the current scheme's antidemocratic function. This Article argues that, at their core, tax-subsidized contributions are part of a nondemocratic mechanism …


Recasting Carried Interest: An Examination Of Recent Tax Reform Proposals, Marguerite Racher Snyder Oct 2009

Recasting Carried Interest: An Examination Of Recent Tax Reform Proposals, Marguerite Racher Snyder

Indiana Law Journal

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Shooting Blanks: The War On Tax Havens, Timothy V. Addison Jul 2009

Shooting Blanks: The War On Tax Havens, Timothy V. Addison

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

The United States Treasury conservatively estimates that tax havens cost the United States over $100 billion annually in lost tax revenue. In response to this epidemic, the United States and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development entered into Tax Information Exchange Agreements with states considered to be tax havens. These agreements received widespread recognition as a means of remedying this growing problem. These agreements, however, are largely symbolic and provide very few additional weapons to combat tax evasion enabled by tax havens. As evidence of this, the estimated annual loss of tax revenue due to tax havens has increased …


Putting The Community Back In Community Benefit: Proposed State Tax Exemption Standard For Nonprofit Hospitals, Michele R. Goodman Apr 2009

Putting The Community Back In Community Benefit: Proposed State Tax Exemption Standard For Nonprofit Hospitals, Michele R. Goodman

Indiana Law Journal

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Does The Constitutional Norm Of Separation Of Church And State Justify The Denial Of Tax Exemption To Churches That Engage In Partisan Political Speech, Johnny Rex Buckles Apr 2009

Does The Constitutional Norm Of Separation Of Church And State Justify The Denial Of Tax Exemption To Churches That Engage In Partisan Political Speech, Johnny Rex Buckles

Indiana Law Journal

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The Intellectual Foundations Of The Modern American Fiscal State, Ajay K. Mehrotra Jan 2009

The Intellectual Foundations Of The Modern American Fiscal State, Ajay K. Mehrotra

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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