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Tax Glasnost' For Millionaires: Peeking Behind The Veil Of Ignorance Along The Publicity-Privacy Continuum, Marc Linder Nov 2012

Tax Glasnost' For Millionaires: Peeking Behind The Veil Of Ignorance Along The Publicity-Privacy Continuum, Marc Linder

Marc Linder

No abstract provided.


Eisenhower-Era Marxist-Confiscatory Taxation: Requiem For The Rhetoric Of Rate Reduction For The Rich, Marc Linder Nov 2012

Eisenhower-Era Marxist-Confiscatory Taxation: Requiem For The Rhetoric Of Rate Reduction For The Rich, Marc Linder

Marc Linder

No abstract provided.


The Involuntary Conversion Of Employees Into Self-Employed: The Internal Revenue Service And Section 530, Marc Linder Nov 2012

The Involuntary Conversion Of Employees Into Self-Employed: The Internal Revenue Service And Section 530, Marc Linder

Marc Linder

No abstract provided.


No Wealthy Parent Left Behind: An Analysis Of Tax Subsidies For Higher Education, Andrew Pike Oct 2012

No Wealthy Parent Left Behind: An Analysis Of Tax Subsidies For Higher Education, Andrew Pike

Andrew Pike

This article analyzes the status in 2007 of higher education costs in relation to U.S. taxation policy and the declining real income and ability of lower and middle income taxpayers to pay tuition and fees. Then-current tax policy lessened support for families with the greatest financial need while providing much greater levels of support to those with greater financial resources. To enhance distributional fairness, the author proposes that Congress repeal tax provisions that have this effect and consolidate the separate sources of federal financial aid grants into one program--an expanded Pell Grant program. He also advises that Congress make the …


Transferee Liability, George Hani, Tamara Ashford, Robert D. Probasco Aug 2012

Transferee Liability, George Hani, Tamara Ashford, Robert D. Probasco

Robert Probasco

No abstract provided.


Quoted In Daily Tax Report On Starnes Ruling, Robert D. Probasco Jun 2012

Quoted In Daily Tax Report On Starnes Ruling, Robert D. Probasco

Robert Probasco

No abstract provided.


Foreign Administrative Law And International Taxation: A Case Study Of Tax Treaty Implementation In China, Wei Cui May 2012

Foreign Administrative Law And International Taxation: A Case Study Of Tax Treaty Implementation In China, Wei Cui

Wei Cui

U.S. taxpayers and the IRS increasingly have to take into account the interactions between U.S. and foreign laws, but they have paid little attention to the administrative law backgrounds of foreign tax laws. In a growing range of cases, the need for such attention has become urgent. This Article describes a novel class of cases encountered by U.S. taxpayers that emanate from tax treaty implementation in China. In these cases, U.S. (and other foreign) investors face certain rules that conflict with common treaty interpretations, and that, at the same time, are not legally binding under Chinese domestic law. The question …


The Marriage Tax Revisited: An Analysis Of The Tax Consequences Of Marriage, Dan Subotnik May 2012

The Marriage Tax Revisited: An Analysis Of The Tax Consequences Of Marriage, Dan Subotnik

Dan Subotnik

No abstract provided.


Quoted In Law360 On Ex-Ceo Pay, Robert D. Probasco Mar 2012

Quoted In Law360 On Ex-Ceo Pay, Robert D. Probasco

Robert Probasco

No abstract provided.


Comments On Proposed Amendments To The Rules Of The United States Tax Court, Robert D. Probasco Feb 2012

Comments On Proposed Amendments To The Rules Of The United States Tax Court, Robert D. Probasco

Robert Probasco

We commend the Court for the time and thought that has been put into preparing the proposed amendments to its rules of practice and procedure. We also appreciate the opportunity to comment on the proposal and hope that our comments prove to be helpful. We agree with the proposed rules for the most part and believe that they represent an improvement for taxpayers, practitioners , and the Court . We respectfully suggest, however, the Court consider certain changes that we believe could further improve the procedures.


Section 7433’S Statute Of Limitations: How Courts Have Wrongly Turned A Taxpayer’S Exclusive Sword Into The Irs’ Shield Against Damages, Diana Leyden Dec 2011

Section 7433’S Statute Of Limitations: How Courts Have Wrongly Turned A Taxpayer’S Exclusive Sword Into The Irs’ Shield Against Damages, Diana Leyden

Diana L Leyden

Despite the importance of section 7433 to check government unauthorized tortious collection activity, federal courts have turned section 7433 into a shield against excessive or unsupported IRS action, rather than maintain it as the small, but important, sword that Congress intended to give taxpayer. This article contributes to the sparse literature on section 7433 by demonstrating that federal courts have effectively vitiated section 7433 by misreading its statute of limitations to: (1) require a taxpayer to be put on notice that all collection action taken by the IRS is unauthorized and to therefore file section 7433 actions from the first …


Compromising The Safety Net: How Limiting Tax Deductions For High-Income Donors Could Undermine Charitable Organizations, Patrick Tolan Dec 2011

Compromising The Safety Net: How Limiting Tax Deductions For High-Income Donors Could Undermine Charitable Organizations, Patrick Tolan

Patrick E. Tolan Jr.

President Obama’s recent budget proposals have contemplated reducing the top rate for charitable deductions (and all itemized deductions) to twenty-eight percent. Because America’s largest donors are those in the highest marginal tax brackets, efforts to limit deductibility of charitable donations could have a chilling effect on charitable giving.

In this article the author looks at motivations for charitable donations and specifically at the impact of tax deductibility as a motivating factor. It takes a historical look at the philanthropic surveys and econometric models and examines empirical data concerning impacts of significant changes to the tax code in the 1980s that …


Nonprofits, Politics, And Privacy, Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer Dec 2011

Nonprofits, Politics, And Privacy, Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer

Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer

The time is ripe for a deeper consideration of the policy concerns that underlie public disclosure requirements for politically active tax-exempt nonprofit organizations and the related issue of privacy. To clarify the discussion, one aspect for deeper consideration is recognizing that this particular area is at the intersection of three significantly different disclosure regimes. Those three regimes are (1) federal tax law generally, (2) federal tax law as it applies to tax-exempt nonprofit organizations, and (3) federal election law. These regimes are a study in contrasts. Federal tax law strongly protects taxpayer information from public disclosure. And while federal tax …