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University of Georgia School of Law

1991

Taxation-State and Local

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Justice Scalia And The Commerce Clause: Reflections Of A State Tax Lawyer, Walter Hellerstein Jun 1991

Justice Scalia And The Commerce Clause: Reflections Of A State Tax Lawyer, Walter Hellerstein

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This paper considers Justice Scalia's substantive views of the restraints that the commerce clause imposes on state taxation. My purpose is to examine critically Justice Scalia's dormant or "negative" commerce clause analysis of the state tax issues on which he has opined and to draw from that examination some general conclusions about Justice Scalia's commerce clause jurisprudence.


The Finnigan Case: A Reply To Vogelenzang's Second Stage Apportionment Of Unitary Income, Walter Hellerstein, Jerome R. Hellerstein May 1991

The Finnigan Case: A Reply To Vogelenzang's Second Stage Apportionment Of Unitary Income, Walter Hellerstein, Jerome R. Hellerstein

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In this article J. Hellerstein and W. Hellerstein take issue with arguments made by Pierre Vogelenzang in a special report in Tax Notes that California’s second-stage apportionment of the income of a unitary business amounts to unconstitutional extraterritorial taxation. In the Finnigan case, the California State Board of Equalization held that sales made into California by a corporation that is not itself taxable in California, but is a member of a unitary group that is taxable there, are includable in the numerator of the state’s sales factor in apportioning income. The authors defend this result, arguing that the separate identity …