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Tax Treatment Of A Marijuana Business, Douglas A. Kahn, Howard Bromberg
Tax Treatment Of A Marijuana Business, Douglas A. Kahn, Howard Bromberg
Articles
Currently, twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia allow the use of marijuana for medical purposes and permit the conduct of a business marketing of marijuana for that purpose. Eight of those states and the District of Columbia permit the recreational use of marijuana. There is reason to believe that more states will decriminalize the marketing of marijuana. However, marijuana is listed in Schedule 1 of the federal Controlled Substances Act of 1970 (CSA) which makes it illegal under federal law to manufacture or distribute marijuana even when it is legal to do so under local state law. In a …
The Social Boundaries Of Corporate Taxation, Sloan G. Speck
The Social Boundaries Of Corporate Taxation, Sloan G. Speck
Publications
Historically, the tax law distinction between corporate and conduit treatment drew primarily on doctrinal understandings, treating state-law corporations as corporate for tax purposes and classifying unincorporated legal entities based on their resemblance to conventional state-law corporations. More recently, commentators and Treasury have abandoned these doctrinal touchstones in favor of efficiency, broadly construed, as the guiding principle in determining an entity’s tax classification. This Article argues that, while important, efficiency considerations should not function as the sole arbiter of the boundary between corporate and conduit tax treatment. First, classical corporate taxation is, in many ways, deeply embedded within a larger network …
Provisions Denying A Deduction For Illegal Expenses And Expenses Of An Illegal Business Should Be Repealed, Douglas A. Kahn, Howard Bromberg
Provisions Denying A Deduction For Illegal Expenses And Expenses Of An Illegal Business Should Be Repealed, Douglas A. Kahn, Howard Bromberg
Articles
Currently, the tax law denies a deduction for business expenses that violate a federal or state law (but only if the state law is generally enforced). In addition, losses, including business losses, cannot be deducted if they arise out of an illegal activity. For example, medical expenses are denied a deduction if they are illegal. Kickbacks, bribes, and rebates given in connection with the Medicaid or Medicare program are nondeductible. Any expenses, legal or not, incurred in connection with the conduct of a business of selling a controlled substance that is prohibited by federal law (or by the law of …
Working With The Section 752 Partnership Liability Allocation Rules (Outline), Jennifer H. Alexander, Andrea M. Whiteway
Working With The Section 752 Partnership Liability Allocation Rules (Outline), Jennifer H. Alexander, Andrea M. Whiteway
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Working With The Section 752 Partnership Liability Allocation Rules (Slides), Jennifer H. Alexander, Andrea M. Whiteway
Working With The Section 752 Partnership Liability Allocation Rules (Slides), Jennifer H. Alexander, Andrea M. Whiteway
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
The Proper Tax Treatment Of The Transfer Of A Compensatory Partnership Interest, Douglas A. Kahn
The Proper Tax Treatment Of The Transfer Of A Compensatory Partnership Interest, Douglas A. Kahn
Articles
If a person receives property as payment for services, whether for past or future services, the receipt typically constitutes gross income to the recipient. If a person performs services for a partnership or agrees to perform future services, and if the person receives a partnership interest as compensation for the past or future services, one might expect that receipt to cause the new partner to recognize gross income in an amount equal to the fair market value of the partnership interest. After all, if a corporation compensated someone for services rendered or to be rendered by transferring the corporation's own …
Prevention Of Double Deductions Of A Single Loss: Solutions In Search Of A Problem, Douglas A. Kahn, Jeffrey H. Kahn
Prevention Of Double Deductions Of A Single Loss: Solutions In Search Of A Problem, Douglas A. Kahn, Jeffrey H. Kahn
Articles
In the current tax system, a corporation is treated as a separate taxable entity. This tax system is sometimes referred to as an entity tax or a double tax system. Since a corporation is a separate and distinct entity from its owners, the shareholders, the default rule is that transfers between them are treated as realization events. Without a specific Internal Revenue Code (Code) provision providing otherwise, such transactions will also require the parties to recognize the realized gain or loss. Congress has enacted several nonrecognition corporate provisions when forcing the recognition of income could prevent changes to the form …
Is The Report Of Lazarus's Death Premature? A Reply To Cameron And Postlewaite, Douglas A. Kahn
Is The Report Of Lazarus's Death Premature? A Reply To Cameron And Postlewaite, Douglas A. Kahn
Articles
Over a year ago, Ms. Faith Cuenin and I wrote an article in this Review (which I hereafter refer to as the "2004 Article") about the tax treatment of guaranteed payments under section 707(c) that are made in kind.' We concluded that a partnership does not recognize gain or loss on the making of a guaranteed payment with appreciated or depreciated property. We also concluded that the partner's basis in the property received will equal its fair market value at the time of payment, and that the payment does not affect the partner's outside basis in his partnership interest except …
Tax Law Uncertainty And The Role Of Tax Insurance, Kyle D. Logue
Tax Law Uncertainty And The Role Of Tax Insurance, Kyle D. Logue
Articles
In the broadest sense, this is an article about legal or regulatory uncertainty and the role that private and public insurance can play in managing it. More narrowly, the article is about tax law enforcement and the familiar if ill-defined distinctions between tax evasion, tax avoidance, and abusive tax avoidance. Most specifically, the article is about a new type of tax risk insurance policy, sometimes called tax indemnity insurance or transactional tax risk insurance that provides coverage against the risk that the Internal Revenue Service (Service) will disallow a taxpayer-insured's tax treatment of a particular transaction. The question is whether …
Tax Constraints On Indexed Options, David M. Schizer
Tax Constraints On Indexed Options, David M. Schizer
Faculty Scholarship
Indexed stock option grants reward executives for outperforming a benchmark, such as the market as a whole or competitors in the same industry. These options offer superior incentives by limiting the influence of factors beyond an executive's control, such as general market and industry conditions. Yet indexed options are almost never used. Professor Saul Levmore seeks to explain this puzzle with norms. This comment on his article argues that tax plays a larger role in this puzzle than he acknowledges, although tax is not a complete explanation. Accounting and Professor Levmore's norms-based account are then briefly considered.
Debt Instruments' Tax Treatment In Corporate Mergers And Acquisitions, Tae Oon Jang
Debt Instruments' Tax Treatment In Corporate Mergers And Acquisitions, Tae Oon Jang
LLM Theses and Essays
The increase of merger and acquisition(M&A) activity since 1992 has resulted mainly from a domestic economic recovery. The current M&A trend shows that M&A is still an important means of enhancing many corporations' competitive power and of stimulating growth in such areas as computer software and services, wholesale and distribution, miscellaneous services, banking and finance, and leisure and entertainment. Fundraising for mezzanine-fund financing, which reflects investors' foresight about current and future M&A trends, has also seen rapid growth. After the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and the repeal of the General Utilities doctrine, the elimination of the capital gain preference …
Allocation Of Nonrecourse Liabilities: Irs Takes Two Steps Forward, One Back, J. D. Dell, Michael G. Frankel, Leslie H. Loffman, Sanford C. Presant, Blake D. Rubin
Allocation Of Nonrecourse Liabilities: Irs Takes Two Steps Forward, One Back, J. D. Dell, Michael G. Frankel, Leslie H. Loffman, Sanford C. Presant, Blake D. Rubin
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Planning Opportunities Remain Under The Final Partnership Allocation Rules For Contributed Property, Michael G. Frankel, Leslie H. Loffman, Sanford C. Presant
Planning Opportunities Remain Under The Final Partnership Allocation Rules For Contributed Property, Michael G. Frankel, Leslie H. Loffman, Sanford C. Presant
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Meeting With Irs Regarding Partnership Issues In Developing Section 1017 Regulations, Blake D. Rubin
Meeting With Irs Regarding Partnership Issues In Developing Section 1017 Regulations, Blake D. Rubin
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Partnership Workouts: Problems And Solutions Under Final Section 704(B) And 752 Regulations, Michael G. Frankel, Charles H. Coffin
Partnership Workouts: Problems And Solutions Under Final Section 704(B) And 752 Regulations, Michael G. Frankel, Charles H. Coffin
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Focus On Capitalization V. Deductibility - Environmental Remediation, Stefan F. Tucker
Focus On Capitalization V. Deductibility - Environmental Remediation, Stefan F. Tucker
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
The Tax Treatment Of Environmental Cleanup Costs, Blake D. Rubin, Seth Green, Katherine P. Rosefsky
The Tax Treatment Of Environmental Cleanup Costs, Blake D. Rubin, Seth Green, Katherine P. Rosefsky
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Planning For The Taxable Disposition Of Overleveraged Property, Blake D. Rubin
Planning For The Taxable Disposition Of Overleveraged Property, Blake D. Rubin
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
The Like Kind Exchange: Everything You Need To Know, Whether Or Not You Wanted To Ask, Stefan F. Tucker
The Like Kind Exchange: Everything You Need To Know, Whether Or Not You Wanted To Ask, Stefan F. Tucker
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
The Limited Liability Company Experiment: Unlimited Flexibility, Uncertain Role, Wayne M. Gazur
The Limited Liability Company Experiment: Unlimited Flexibility, Uncertain Role, Wayne M. Gazur
Publications
No abstract provided.
Partnership Profits Share For Services: An Aggregate Exegesis Of Revenue Procedure 93-27 (Part 1), John W. Lee
Partnership Profits Share For Services: An Aggregate Exegesis Of Revenue Procedure 93-27 (Part 1), John W. Lee
Faculty Publications
In this article, Lee charts two alternative methods for implementing an aggregate solution to the problem of partnership profits share exchanged for services. The functional, or judicial, method, he explains, is to handle (1) the exchange of partner-capacity services for a profit share subject to the risk of the venture with the Culbertson "common law relation of partnership," nonrealization event doctrine, implicitly contemplated by the 1984 legislative history to section 707(a)(2); (2) the classic Diamond transitory partner with a substance-over-form rule or step-transaction rule; and (3) a sale of the partnership interest in circumstances that would result in ordinary income …
Section 338 And Its Foolish Consistency Rules - The Hobgoblin Of Little Minds, Douglas A. Kahn
Section 338 And Its Foolish Consistency Rules - The Hobgoblin Of Little Minds, Douglas A. Kahn
Articles
The purposes of this Article are to examine whether there is any longer a reason for concern because a target corporation can choose selected assets for nonrecognition and to what extent the 1994 regulations properly deal with potentially abusive circumventions of tax goals. Before examining the current status of the consistency requirements, the historical background that led to the adoption of Section 338 and the operation of the section is discussed. The historical background includes: the judicially created Kimbell-Diamond rule, the codification and modification of that rule by the old version of Section 334(b)(2), the operation of the old version …
Intangible Asset Depreciation: Newark And Section 197, Kenneth W. Gideon
Intangible Asset Depreciation: Newark And Section 197, Kenneth W. Gideon
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Planning Opportunities After Chapter 14 (Section 2701 And 2702), Frederic A. Nicholson
Planning Opportunities After Chapter 14 (Section 2701 And 2702), Frederic A. Nicholson
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Section 382: Net Operating Loss Carryovers In Corporate Acquisitions, Peter L. Faber
Section 382: Net Operating Loss Carryovers In Corporate Acquisitions, Peter L. Faber
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
The Affiliated Management Group And Code § 414(M), Robert M. Reed
The Affiliated Management Group And Code § 414(M), Robert M. Reed
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Corporate Divisions Under Section 355, Mark J. Silverman, Kevin M. Keyes
Corporate Divisions Under Section 355, Mark J. Silverman, Kevin M. Keyes
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Section 2036(C), Jere D. Mcgaffey
Section 2036(C), Jere D. Mcgaffey
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Issues Involved In Allocation Of Purchase Price In Stock And Asset Acquisitions, Including Impact Of Section 1060, Samuel C. Thompson Jr.
Issues Involved In Allocation Of Purchase Price In Stock And Asset Acquisitions, Including Impact Of Section 1060, Samuel C. Thompson Jr.
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Allocating Partnership Liabilities Under The New Section 752 Regulations, William F. Nelson
Allocating Partnership Liabilities Under The New Section 752 Regulations, William F. Nelson
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.