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The Original Issue Discount Deduction In Bonds-For-Noncash Property Exchanges, Charles L. Almond
The Original Issue Discount Deduction In Bonds-For-Noncash Property Exchanges, Charles L. Almond
Vanderbilt Law Review
The first codification of the United States Internal Revenue laws gave a corporation a deduction from income of "[a]ll interest paid or accrued within the taxable year on its indebtedness. ...This same language is presently in force in the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. The statutory language authorizing the interest deduction has never dealt explicitly with the deductibility of discount arising upon a corporation's original issuance of bonds. Treasury Regulations promulgated pursuant to the interest deduction sections, however, have recognized continually that the statutory language embodies a deduction for original issue discount. 'The latest pre-1969 regulation, which limits itself to …
Municipal Industrial Development Bonds, Alfred E. Abbey
Municipal Industrial Development Bonds, Alfred E. Abbey
Vanderbilt Law Review
Several years ago a national business magazine carried an article styled "You Gotta Have A Golf Course."' The article outlined the efforts of a small town to attract new industry and the awkward realization by the city fathers that they were losing out to the competition because their community lacked such a recreational facility. After this finding, several public spirited citizens raised the necessary funds and constructed a nine-hole course. These efforts were soon rewarded when a large industrial concern located a new manufacturing plant in their city. Industrial development bonds are essentially intended to serve the same purpose as …