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Tax Avoidance, Alan Gunn Apr 1978

Tax Avoidance, Alan Gunn

Michigan Law Review

This Article attempts an almost purely negative criticism. I contend that efforts to explain the results of tax cases not involving penalties by reference to "tax avoidance" are never satisfactory, whether the reference is meant to describe a taxpayer's state of mind or to justify a tax rule by invoking some "need to prevent tax avoidance." Because many tax problems are commonly discussed in terms of "tax avoidance" in one of these senses, and in order to avoid the impression that my arguments would leave the tax law in shambles, I shall suggest some alternative ways of dealing with these …


Wright V. Commissioner, 62 T.C. 377 (1974), Aff'd, 543 F.2d 593 (7th Cir. 1976), Ruth L. Gokel Jan 1978

Wright V. Commissioner, 62 T.C. 377 (1974), Aff'd, 543 F.2d 593 (7th Cir. 1976), Ruth L. Gokel

Florida State University Law Review

Income Tax- PROPERTY SETTLEMENT IN DIVORCE- AN UNSETTLED AREA OF SETTLED LAW.