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Unregulated Charity, Eric Franklin Amarante Dec 2019

Unregulated Charity, Eric Franklin Amarante

Washington Law Review

The vast majority of charities in the United States operate in a regulatory blind spot: they are neither meaningfully evaluated when they apply for charitable status nor substantively monitored after they receive charitable status. Driven by severe budget constraints, the IRS decided to essentially ignore any charity that claims it will realize less than $50,000 in annual gross receipts. From a practical perspective, the IRS’s decision makes sense. To the extent smaller charities are less likely to cause harm, it is reasonable (perhaps even preferable) to subject them to less scrutiny. This type of prioritization, known as risk-based regulation, has …


Taxing Selling Partners, Emily Cauble Mar 2019

Taxing Selling Partners, Emily Cauble

Washington Law Review

When a partner sells a partnership interest, the resulting gain or loss is treated as capital gain or loss, except to the extent that the partnership holds certain items whose sale would result in gain or loss that was not capital. Seemingly, the purpose of this regime is to prevent taxpayers from obtaining more favorable treatment by selling an interest in a partnership than what would result if the partnership were to sell its underlying assets. But given this legislative aim, the existing tax provisions produce results for taxpayers that are both unduly favorable (in that sale of a partnership …


America's (D)Evolving Childcare Tax Laws, Shannon Weeks Mccormack Jan 2019

America's (D)Evolving Childcare Tax Laws, Shannon Weeks Mccormack

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Proponents have touted the ability of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the TCJA) — enacted in the twilight of 2017 — to help American working families. But while the TCJA expanded some benefits available to parents with dependent children, these parental tax benefits may be claimed regardless of whether or to what extent childcare costs are incurred to work outside the home. To help working parents with these costs (which are often their largest expense), Congress might have turned to two other mechanisms in the tax law — the “child and dependent care credit” and the “dependent care exclusion.” …


Letter From Jeffery M. Kadet And David L. Koontz To Internal Revenue Serv. (Aug. 20, 2019) On Notice Of Proposed Rulemaking: Classification Of Cloud Transactions And Transactions Involving Digital Content, Jeffery M. Kadet, David L. Koontz Jan 2019

Letter From Jeffery M. Kadet And David L. Koontz To Internal Revenue Serv. (Aug. 20, 2019) On Notice Of Proposed Rulemaking: Classification Of Cloud Transactions And Transactions Involving Digital Content, Jeffery M. Kadet, David L. Koontz

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Transitioning From Gilti To Fdii? Foreign Branch Income Issues, Jeffery M. Kadet, David L. Koontz Jan 2019

Transitioning From Gilti To Fdii? Foreign Branch Income Issues, Jeffery M. Kadet, David L. Koontz

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In this article, Kadet and Koontz explain the risks and benefits multinationals must consider in deciding whether to transition some operations conducted within a controlled foreign corporation (along with the associated income) into a domestic group member to achieve a structure that qualifies for foreign-derived intangible income.


Letter From Jeffery M. Kadet To Internal Revenue Serv. (Oct. 6, 2019) On Notice 2019-30, 2019-2020 Priority Guidance Plan - Sourcing Of Cloud Services Income, Jeffery M. Kadet Jan 2019

Letter From Jeffery M. Kadet To Internal Revenue Serv. (Oct. 6, 2019) On Notice 2019-30, 2019-2020 Priority Guidance Plan - Sourcing Of Cloud Services Income, Jeffery M. Kadet

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