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Powers Of Attorney Under The Uniform Power Of Attorney Act Including Reference To Virginia Law, F. Philip Manns Jr. Dec 2018

Powers Of Attorney Under The Uniform Power Of Attorney Act Including Reference To Virginia Law, F. Philip Manns Jr.

ACTEC Law Journal

The Uniform Power of Attorney Act (UPOAA), approved in 2006, slightly amended in 2008 and more significantly amended in 2016, has been adopted by 27 U.S. jurisdictions. The UPOAA promotes uniformity in language delineating an agent's powers and mandates that third parties accept notarized powers of attorney. Under the UPOAA, an instrument simply granting an agent authority to do "all acts that a principal could do," vests that agent with broad powers: the precise delineation of those powers is produced by about a dozen pages of UPOAA text automatically incorporated by reference into such "all acts" instruments. However, the UPOAA …


Law Of Federal Estate And Gift Taxation, David Link, Thomas Shaffer Jun 2015

Law Of Federal Estate And Gift Taxation, David Link, Thomas Shaffer

Thomas L. Shaffer

No abstract provided.


Death, Taxes, And Property (Rights): Nozick, Libertarianism, And The Estate Tax, Jennifer Bird-Pollan Jan 2013

Death, Taxes, And Property (Rights): Nozick, Libertarianism, And The Estate Tax, Jennifer Bird-Pollan

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

The primary purpose of this Article is to dispute the moral claims to post-death property rights made by libertarians when they argue against the estate tax. As I will show later in this Article, my argument does not necessarily entail enacting an estate tax, nor does it require a particular level of tax. I am merely trying to demonstrate that those who argue that the estate tax is an immoral violation of the private property rights of the deceased are mistaken. This is not to say that the estate of the deceased should necessarily pass to the government. It is …


Taxation, Craig D. Bell Nov 2008

Taxation, Craig D. Bell

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Exceptional Circumstances: The Material Benefit Rule In Practice And Theory, Clay B. Tousey Iii Apr 2006

Exceptional Circumstances: The Material Benefit Rule In Practice And Theory, Clay B. Tousey Iii

Campbell Law Review

The collapse of Starr's seemingly meritorious claim and the court's interestingly inconsequential mention of Section 86 raise the motivating questions of this article. First, is Section 86 and the "material benefit rule" it embodies ever applied in court, and, if so, can a unifying theme be found between those cases in which courts choose to enforce the post-benefit promise and those in which they do not?


Giving Intellectual Property, Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Jeffrey A. Maine Jan 2006

Giving Intellectual Property, Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Jeffrey A. Maine

Articles

The interdisciplinarity of intellectual property and taxation poses many challenges to the disparate existing norms in each respective field of law. This Article identifies and critiques the current tax regime governing the giving of intellectual property as a manifestation of the failure to understand the principles and policies underlying intellectual property and the firm. It proposes an economic, incentives-based system that would encourage firms to extricate part of their repository of residual rights by surrendering their monopolistic ownership of intellectual property for the benefit of charitable organizations and, in turn, the development and growth of society.


Gifts, Gafts And Gefts: The Income Tax Definition And Treatment Of Private And Charitable 'Gifts' And A Principled Policy Justification For The Exclusion Of Gifts From Income, Douglas A. Kahn, Jeffrey H. Kahn Jan 2003

Gifts, Gafts And Gefts: The Income Tax Definition And Treatment Of Private And Charitable 'Gifts' And A Principled Policy Justification For The Exclusion Of Gifts From Income, Douglas A. Kahn, Jeffrey H. Kahn

Articles

Gifts have been given special treatment by the income tax laws since the first post-16th Amendment tax statute was adopted in 1913. The determination of how the income tax law should treat gifts raises a number of issues. For example: should gifts be given special treatment? If so, what should qualify as a gift? Should gifts to a private party be taxable to the donee? Should gifts to a private party be deductible by the donor? Should the donee's basis in a gift of property be determined by reference to the basis that the donor had, and should any modifications …


Cadillacs, Gold Watches, And The Tax Reform Act Of 1986: The Continuing Evolution Of The Tax Treatment Of Gifts To Employees, Mark W. Cochran Jan 1988

Cadillacs, Gold Watches, And The Tax Reform Act Of 1986: The Continuing Evolution Of The Tax Treatment Of Gifts To Employees, Mark W. Cochran

Akron Tax Journal

The purpose of this article is to explore the historical background underlying the changes in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, to explain the changes, and to assess their meaning and significance?


The Changing Meaning Of "Gift": An Analysis Of The Tax Court's Decision In "Carson V. Commissioner", Jeffrey Schoenblum Jan 1979

The Changing Meaning Of "Gift": An Analysis Of The Tax Court's Decision In "Carson V. Commissioner", Jeffrey Schoenblum

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The complexity of detail that characterizes the Internal Revenue Code (Code) has been the subject of intense criticism and only faint praise. Yet, one of the more striking anomalies of the Code is that its often suffocating detail coexists with the sparest definitions of many key terms. The term "gift" is a prime example. Although its meaning plays an instrumental role in income and gift taxation, the Code nowhere defines the term. As a result, the task of fleshing out its meaning has largely fallen on the Treasury, through the issuance of regulations and rulings, and on the courts, which …


Income Taxation Of Estates And Trusts-Gifts Of Specific Property, William R. Pietz Apr 1968

Income Taxation Of Estates And Trusts-Gifts Of Specific Property, William R. Pietz

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Inequities In Corporate Payments To Widows Apr 1963

Inequities In Corporate Payments To Widows

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Indiana Uniform Gifts To Minors Act Jan 1958

The Indiana Uniform Gifts To Minors Act

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Taxation-Income Tax-Taxability Of Payments Made To Widows Of Deceased Employees, Douglas L. Mann S.Ed. May 1951

Taxation-Income Tax-Taxability Of Payments Made To Widows Of Deceased Employees, Douglas L. Mann S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Payments were made by an employer to the widow of a deceased employee in consideration of services rendered by the employee. Held, the payments were includible in the widow's gross income for federal income tax purposes. I.T. 4027, Int. Rev. Bul., Oct. 16, 1950, 2, 505 CCH ¶6208.


Taxation-Income Tax-Income From Discharge Of Indebtedness, R. V. Ehrick Jun 1949

Taxation-Income Tax-Income From Discharge Of Indebtedness, R. V. Ehrick

Michigan Law Review

In 1925 taxpayer obtained a loan of $90,000 from a bank, executing in return 200 bonds secured by a mortgage on certain of his property. The bank sold the bonds to the public. Until 1932 taxpayer was able to pay the interest and retire the bonds according to schedule, but in that year, compelled by a "straitened" (but solvent) financial condition, he obtained an extension of interest and principal payments. During 1938, 1939 and 1940 (prior to maturity) taxpayer repurchased a portion of the bonds at considerably less than face value, some of the purchases being made through a bondholders' …


What Is A Gift?, Herbert Rand Jan 1946

What Is A Gift?, Herbert Rand

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Recent Decisions, Michigan Law Review Dec 1942

Recent Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The recent decisions consist merely of summaries of the facts and holdings of recent cases and are distinguished from the notes by the absence of discussion.