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Cryptocurrency Hard Forks And Revenue Ruling 2019-24, Eric D. Chason
Cryptocurrency Hard Forks And Revenue Ruling 2019-24, Eric D. Chason
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Taxing Systemic Risk, Eric D. Chason
Taxing Systemic Risk, Eric D. Chason
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A tax on the harmful elements of finance—a tax on systemic risk—would raise revenue and also lower the likelihood of future crisis. Financial institutions, which pay the tax, would try to minimize its cost by lowering their systemic risk. In theory, a tax on systemic risk is perfect policy. In practice, however, this perfect policy is unattainable. Tax laws need clear definitions to be administrable. Our current understanding of systemic risk is too abstract and too metaphorical to serve as a target for taxation.
Despite the absence of a clear definition of systemic risk, academics and policy makers continue to …
Extending The Taxation-Of-Risk Model To Timing Options And Marked-To-Market Taxes, Eric D. Chason
Extending The Taxation-Of-Risk Model To Timing Options And Marked-To-Market Taxes, Eric D. Chason
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The Taxing Power, The Sixteenth Amendment, And The Meaning Of ‘Incomes,’, Erik M. Jensen
The Taxing Power, The Sixteenth Amendment, And The Meaning Of ‘Incomes,’, Erik M. Jensen
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This article examines the debates leading to the enactment of the 1894 income tax, which the Supreme Court struck down in 1895, and the Sixteenth Amendment, ratified in 1913, and concludes that an income tax and a tax on consumption were understood to be fundamentally different types of taxes. The author argues that the term “taxes on incomes” in the Sixteenth Amendment should be interpreted with that distinction in mind. The Amendment was intended to make a “tax on incomes,” and only a tax on incomes, possible without the apportionment that would otherwise be required for a direct tax. For …
Class Warfare 1988-2005 Over Top Individual Income Tax Rates: Teeter-Totter From Soak-The-Rich To Robin-Hood-In-Reverse, John W. Lee
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The Capital Gains "Sieve" And The "Farce" Of Progressivity 1921-1986, John W. Lee
The Capital Gains "Sieve" And The "Farce" Of Progressivity 1921-1986, John W. Lee
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The Affinity Provisions Of The Internal Revenue Code: A Case Study In Nonsimplification, Glenn E. Coven
The Affinity Provisions Of The Internal Revenue Code: A Case Study In Nonsimplification, Glenn E. Coven
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