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The Entrepreneurship Effect: An Accidental Externality In The Federal Income Tax, Leandra Lederman Jan 2004

The Entrepreneurship Effect: An Accidental Externality In The Federal Income Tax, Leandra Lederman

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Case law and commentators sometimes speak as if all income-producing activities are taxed similarly. However, that simply is not true for individuals. Although the expenses and losses of business activities generally are deductible from income of any source and net losses can be carried to other tax years, individuals' investment expenses and losses generally are deductible only from investment income. Although many of the provisions restricting investment-related deductions were enacted at different times, and each one has its own rationale, the combined effect of these provisions on individual investors is a systematic preference for business losses over investment losses.

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Whither Black Capitalism, John T. Baker Jan 1972

Whither Black Capitalism, John T. Baker

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