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Managers, Shareholders, And The Corporate Double Tax, Michael Doran Jan 2009

Managers, Shareholders, And The Corporate Double Tax, Michael Doran

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The United States generally imposes two levels of federal income tax on corporate profits. The first level taxes income to the corporation; the second level taxes dividends to the shareholders. Academics and policymakers have long considered this double tax to be "unusual, unfair, and inefficient." Legislators from both political parties have proposed integration of the corporate and individual income taxes on many occasions, but the proposals consistently fail. Prior academic analyses have struggled to explain the failure of integration. This paper demonstrates how certain managers, shareholders, and collateral interests rationally favor certain integration proposals and oppose other integration proposals, while …


The Internal Revenue Service’S Proposed Phased Retirement Regulations: Summary Of Comments, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center Jan 2005

The Internal Revenue Service’S Proposed Phased Retirement Regulations: Summary Of Comments, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Charts and Summaries of State, U.S., and Foreign Laws and Regulations

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