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Individual, Couple Or Family? The Unit Of Taxation For Transfer Tax Purposes: A Shifting Focus, Anne-Marie Rhodes
Individual, Couple Or Family? The Unit Of Taxation For Transfer Tax Purposes: A Shifting Focus, Anne-Marie Rhodes
Akron Law Review
This paper examines the shifting focus of the transfer tax system from the perspectives of the articulated primary purpose for the taxes and the appropriate unit of taxation given that purpose. The historical progression shows that as a sense of purpose became less clear, the unit of taxation similarly became less focused.
Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Right Of Donee To Deduct Expense Of Contesting Gift Tax Asserted Against Donor, William J. Wise S.Ed.
Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Right Of Donee To Deduct Expense Of Contesting Gift Tax Asserted Against Donor, William J. Wise S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
ln 1948 taxpayer's mother gave him 410 shares of stock in the family enterprise. She filed a gift tax return, but the government, in auditing it, disagreed with her valuation of the stock. Donor had no desire to contest the government's valuation, but since his mother and father still held substantial stock in the business which would eventually go to him, donee desired a lower valuation for estate tax evidentiary purposes. Allegedly fearing personal liability for any deficiency assessed against his mother as well as a lien against the corpus of the gift for any unpaid tax, he decided to …