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A Taxing Time For The Bishop Estate: What Is The I.R.S. Role In Charity Governance? (Symposium), Evelyn Brody Mar 1999

A Taxing Time For The Bishop Estate: What Is The I.R.S. Role In Charity Governance? (Symposium), Evelyn Brody

Evelyn Brody

No abstract provided.


Charities In Tax Reform: Threats To Subsidies Overt And Covert, Evelyn Brody Mar 1999

Charities In Tax Reform: Threats To Subsidies Overt And Covert, Evelyn Brody

Evelyn Brody

Fundamental tax reform would do far more damage to charities than the obvious repeal of the deduction for charitable contributions. Over the decades, charities have quietly garnered billions of dollars worth of indirect benefits. For example, the largest tax expenditure - the exclusion from workers' income of employer-provided health insurance - has fattened nonprofit hospitals, and the new tuition tax credits promise to spur tuition inflation. Tax reform presents an opportunity to eliminate tax subsidies and enact any desired direct expenditures for specific public goods and activities. However, converting tax expenditures to direct outlays would likely take the form of …


Using Technology To Draft Estate Tax Returnes, Mark Gillett Jan 1999

Using Technology To Draft Estate Tax Returnes, Mark Gillett

Mark R Gillett

No abstract provided.


Implications Of The Tax Reform Proposals For Fraud – Or – How To Shift To A Consumption Tax Without Helping The Cheaters, Kalyani Robbins Jan 1999

Implications Of The Tax Reform Proposals For Fraud – Or – How To Shift To A Consumption Tax Without Helping The Cheaters, Kalyani Robbins

Kalyani Robbins

The vast majority of the proposals on the table today are simply different implementation mechanisms of the same basic idea: a change in the tax base from income to consumption. The purpose of this article is to consider the implications some of these proposals have for the enforcement of tax compliance (prevention of cheating). For this reason, it will only briefly address the impetus for a consumption tax and the policy considerations behind it. The first part will also give short descriptions of the proposals that will be considered in this article: the National Retail Sales Tax, the Savings-Exempt Income …


Tax Simplification From A Comparative Point Of View, Hugh Ault Dec 1998

Tax Simplification From A Comparative Point Of View, Hugh Ault

Hugh J. Ault

No abstract provided.


Le Travail Accompli Par L'Ocde Et Son Esprit, Hugh Ault Dec 1998

Le Travail Accompli Par L'Ocde Et Son Esprit, Hugh Ault

Hugh J. Ault

No abstract provided.