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Full-Text Articles in Law
What We Talk About When We Talk About Tax Exemption, Philip T. Hackney
What We Talk About When We Talk About Tax Exemption, Philip T. Hackney
Philip T. Hackney
Certain nonprofit organizations are granted exemption from federal income tax (“tax exemption”). Most theories assume tax exemption is a subsidy for organizations such as charities that provide some underprovided good or service. To make the subsidy case, these theories assume that there should be a tax on nonprofit organization income but provide no justification for this assumption. This article contributes to the literature by considering corporate income tax rationales as a proxy for why we might tax nonprofit organizations. The primary two corporate tax theories hold that the corporate tax is imposed to: (1) tax shareholders (“shareholder theory”), and (2) …
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer Quoted In Propublica "The Irs Moves To Limit Dark Money – But Enforcement Still A Question", Lloyd Mayer
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer Quoted In Propublica "The Irs Moves To Limit Dark Money – But Enforcement Still A Question", Lloyd Mayer
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Lloyd Mayer was quoted in the ProPublica article "The IRS Moves to Limit Dark Money – But Enforcement Still a Question" by Kim Barker. The proposed regulations “are only as good as the extent of compliance with them, which history would indicate requires a realistic threat of enforcement and significant sanctions on the groups involved and probably the individuals running those groups,” said Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, a law professor and associate dean at the University of Notre Dame who specializes in nonprofits and campaign finance.
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer Quoted In Propublica "New Tax Return Shows Karl Rove's Group Spent Even More On Politics Than It Said", Lloyd Mayer
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer quoted in ProPublica article "New Tax Return Shows Karl Rove's Group Spent Even More On Politics Than It Said" by Kim Barker. Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, a law professor and associate dean at the University of Notre Dame who specializes in nonprofits and campaign finance, reviewed the Americans for Tax Reform documents at the request of ProPublica and said it was possible that the group was allocating overhead or other costs differently in its tax return than in its FEC filings. "I do not see how any reasonable allocation differences could result in such a large disparity, however," …
Tax In The Cathedral: Property Rules, Liability Rules, And Tax, Andrew Blair-Stanek
Tax In The Cathedral: Property Rules, Liability Rules, And Tax, Andrew Blair-Stanek
Andrew Blair-Stanek
The distinction between property rules and liability rules has revolutionized our understanding of many areas of law. But scholars have long assumed that this distinction has no relevance to tax law. This assumption is flatly wrong. Tax law currently uses both property rules and liability rules, and the choice between them has real consequences. When a taxpayer violates a requirement for a favorable tax status, tax law either imposes additional tax proportionate to the harm (a liability rule) or imposes the draconian penalty of taking away the tax status entirely (a property rule). This recognition has three key implications. First, …
Something Old, Something New: Structuring And Restructuring Deals In 2013 (And Beyond), Stephen L. Owen
Something Old, Something New: Structuring And Restructuring Deals In 2013 (And Beyond), Stephen L. Owen
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
The Tax Code As Nationality Law, Michael S. Kirsch
The Tax Code As Nationality Law, Michael S. Kirsch
Michael Kirsch
This article questions the frequently-asserted axiom that Congress's taxing power knows no bounds. It does so in the context of recently-enacted legislation that creates a special definition of citizenship that applies only for tax purposes. Historically, a person was treated as a citizen for tax purposes (and therefore taxed on her worldwide income and estate) if, and only if, she was a citizen under the nationality law. As a result of the new statute, in certain circumstances a person might be treated as a citizen for tax purposes (and therefore taxed on her worldwide income and estate) for years or …
Taxing Citizens In A Global Economy, Michael S. Kirsch
Taxing Citizens In A Global Economy, Michael S. Kirsch
Michael Kirsch
This Article addresses a fundamental issue underlying the U.S. tax system in the international context: the use of citizenship as a jurisdictional basis for imposing income tax. As a general matter, the United States is the only economically developed country that taxes its citizens abroad on their foreign income. Despite this broad general assertion of taxing jurisdiction, Congress allows citizens abroad to exclude a limited amount of their income earned from working outside the United States. Influential lobbying groups, including businesses that employ significant numbers of U.S. citizens abroad, argue that this exclusion is necessary in order to keep American …
The Congressional Response To Corporate Expatriations: The Tension Between Symbols And Substance In The Taxation Of Multinational Corporations, Michael Kirsch
The Congressional Response To Corporate Expatriations: The Tension Between Symbols And Substance In The Taxation Of Multinational Corporations, Michael Kirsch
Michael Kirsch
During the past few years, several high-profile U.S.-based multinational corporations have changed their tax residence from the United States to Bermuda or some other tax haven. They have accomplished these expatriations, and the resulting millions of dollars of annual tax savings, merely by changing the place of incorporation of their corporate parent, without the need to make any substantive changes to their business operations or their U.S.-based management structure. Congress and the media have focused significant attention on this phenomenon. Despite this attention, Congress initially enacted only a non-tax provision targeting corporate expatriations - a purported ban on expatriated companies …
The Limits Of Administrative Guidance In The Interpretation Of Tax Treaties, Michael Kirsch
The Limits Of Administrative Guidance In The Interpretation Of Tax Treaties, Michael Kirsch
Michael Kirsch
This Article addresses the increasingly important role of administrative guidance in interpreting the United States' international treaty obligations. The relationship between administrative guidance and treaties raises important issues at the intersection of international law, constitutional law, and administrative law. These issues are explored in the context of the United States' extensive tax treaty network. Tax treaties play an important role in a global economy, attempting to reconcile the complex and ever-changing internal tax laws of different countries. The Treasury Department is considering the increased use of administrative guidance to interpret the meaning and application of tax treaties, particularly in response …
Decoupling Taxes And Marriage: Beyond Innocence And Income Splitting, Michelle L. Drumbl
Decoupling Taxes And Marriage: Beyond Innocence And Income Splitting, Michelle L. Drumbl
Michelle L. Drumbl
None available.
Taxation, Craig D. Bell
Taxation, Craig D. Bell
University of Richmond Law Review
The overall purpose of this article is to provide Virginia tax and general practitioners with a concise overview of the recent developments in Virginia taxation that will most likely impact those practitioners. This article does not, however, discuss many of the numerous technical legislative changes to title 58.1 of the Virginia Code, which covers taxation.
Corporations, Taxes, And Religion: The Hobby Lobby And Conestoga Contraceptive Cases, Steven J. Willis
Corporations, Taxes, And Religion: The Hobby Lobby And Conestoga Contraceptive Cases, Steven J. Willis
UF Law Faculty Publications
Beginning in 2013, the federal government mandated that general business corporations include contraceptive and early abortion coverage in large employee health plans. Internal Revenue Code Section 4980D imposes a substantial excise tax on health plans violating the mandate. Indeed, for one company – Hobby Lobby – the expected annual tax is nearly one-half billion dollars. Dozens of “for profit” businesses have challenged the mandate on free exercise grounds, asserting claims under the First Amendment as well as under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
So far, courts have been reluctant to hold corporations have religious rights of their own; as a …
Unseating Privilege: Rawls, Equality Of Opportunity, And Wealth Transfer Taxation, Jennifer Bird-Pollan
Unseating Privilege: Rawls, Equality Of Opportunity, And Wealth Transfer Taxation, Jennifer Bird-Pollan
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
This Article is the second in a series that examines the estate tax from a particular philosophical position in order to demonstrate the relevance and importance of the wealth transfer taxes to that position. In this Article, I explore Rawlsian equality of opportunity, a philosophical position that is at the heart of much American thought. Equality of opportunity requires not only ensuring that sufficient opportunities are available to the least well-off members of society but also that opportunities are not available to other members merely because of their wealth or other arbitrary advantages. Therefore, an income tax alone, even one …
Legal Mirrors Of Entrepreneurship, Mirit Eyal-Cohen
Legal Mirrors Of Entrepreneurship, Mirit Eyal-Cohen
Mirit Eyal-Cohen
Small businesses are regarded the engine of the economy. But just what is a “small” business? Depending on where one looks in the law, the definitions vary and they differ from one section to another. Unfortunately, what these various size classifications fail to assess, are the policy considerations and the legislative intent for granting regulatory preferences to small concerns to begin with.
In the last century, the U.S. government has been cultivating one such policy of fiscal and economic growth. Consequently, Congress and private institutions have been acting to incentivize, support and reward entrepreneurship through the law in order to …
Is Financial Instability A Tax Problem With A Tax Solution?, Hilary Allen
Is Financial Instability A Tax Problem With A Tax Solution?, Hilary Allen
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Financial regulation and taxation are two fields of law that are notoriously complex and specialized. Given thiscircumstance, it is perhaps not surprising that financial regulators often pay little attention to tax, and focusinstead on their own sphere of influence. Unfortunately, financial regulators ignore tax incentives at the peril offinancial stability.
The Economics And Politics Of Washington's Taxes: From Statehood To 2013, Don Burrows
The Economics And Politics Of Washington's Taxes: From Statehood To 2013, Don Burrows
Washington State Books
The book is divided into three parts. Part I contains five chapters. Chapters 1 and 4 provide a description, comparison and evaluation of Washington’s current tax structure. Chapter 2 provides a description, history and evaluation to the state’s three most important taxes: property, sales and B&O. Chapter 3 describes the roles played by the “tax policy makers” (i.e., citizens, governors, legislators, other public officials, businesses, labor groups, and numerous other interest group) in bringing about those changes. Chapter 5 includes a discussion and an analysis of contentious tax issues of concern to citizens, public officials and interest groups alike. Most …
Ethics And Expected Changes To Circular 230, Fred Murray, Richard Goldstein, Matthew Lucey, Jack Manhire, Robert D. Probasco
Ethics And Expected Changes To Circular 230, Fred Murray, Richard Goldstein, Matthew Lucey, Jack Manhire, Robert D. Probasco
Robert Probasco
No abstract provided.
Social Impact Bonds And The Private Benefit Doctrine: Will Participation Jeopardize A Nonprofit’S Tax-Exempt Status?, Peter G. Dagher Jr.
Social Impact Bonds And The Private Benefit Doctrine: Will Participation Jeopardize A Nonprofit’S Tax-Exempt Status?, Peter G. Dagher Jr.
Fordham Law Review
In August 2012, the first social impact bond in the United States was implemented, introducing a revolutionary framework that aligns the incentives of the participants and provides nonprofits with a steady source of long term funding to scale up social projects. In the prevailing social impact bond structure, private investors essentially place a bet with a government agency that the selected nonprofits will accomplish measureable goals through a comprehensive project designed to reduce public costs. If the program fails to reach these goals, the investors lose the bet and their entire financial commitment to the social impact bond. If the …
S13rs Sgfb No. 16 (Hscs, Dia Del Niño), Beadle
S13rs Sgfb No. 16 (Hscs, Dia Del Niño), Beadle
Student Senate Enrolled Legislation
No abstract provided.
Making Impossible Tax Reform Possible, Susannah Camic Tahk
Making Impossible Tax Reform Possible, Susannah Camic Tahk
Fordham Law Review
The United States has long struggled to reform its federal income tax code. Despite enthusiastic and widespread bipartisan support for tax reform laws that would eliminate special–interest loopholes, the legislative process has been paralyzed when it comes to passing these laws. This Article proposes a solution to this seemingly intractable federal tax lawmaking paralysis. This paralysis arises because tax reform spreads its benefits among broad groups while concentrating its costs on narrow ones. Political science theory accurately predicts that laws with this cost–benefit allocation will fail. However, federal lawmakers can overcome tax lawmaking paralysis by distributing tax reform’s costs and …
Joint Federal Income Tax Returns: If Doma Dies And Even If It Lives The Weak Case For Distinguishing Between Same-Sex And Different-Sex Married Couples, Julie A.D. Manasfi
Joint Federal Income Tax Returns: If Doma Dies And Even If It Lives The Weak Case For Distinguishing Between Same-Sex And Different-Sex Married Couples, Julie A.D. Manasfi
Julie A.D. Manasfi
Joint Federal Income Tax Returns: If DOMA Dies And Even If It Lives The Weak Case For Distinguishing between Same-Sex and Different-Sex Married Couples State recognition of same-sex marriages and marriage-like statuses raised the question of whether these relationships would be respected for federal purposes. In 1996, the Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA”) answered the question with a definitive “no.” Section 3 of DOMA defines “marriage” for federal purposes as “a legal union between one man and one woman.” DOMA’s definition of marriage has been found unconstitutional in eight federal courts. In fact in 2011, at the instruction of President …
Transferee Liability, Robert D. Probasco
Slump Sale Transactions - Taxation Issues In India, Mubashshir Sarshar
Slump Sale Transactions - Taxation Issues In India, Mubashshir Sarshar
Mubashshir Sarshar
No abstract provided.
Horse Syndication: A Sure Footed Winner In The Investment Sweepstakes, Thomas R. Catanese
Horse Syndication: A Sure Footed Winner In The Investment Sweepstakes, Thomas R. Catanese
Pepperdine Law Review
Recent changes in the scheme of federal taxation coupled with increasing interest in the equine industry has propelled that industry into the forefront of tax sheltered investments. In this article the author takes an in-depth look at the federal securities and tax law aspects of a typical equine syndication as a tax sheltered investment.
The Professional Corporation—Has The Death Knell Been Sounded?, Forest J. Bowman
The Professional Corporation—Has The Death Knell Been Sounded?, Forest J. Bowman
Pepperdine Law Review
The favorable tax reasons for incorporating a professional practice have been substantially reduced by the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act. The retirement benefits of the professional corporation have effectively been eliminated by TEFRA. In addition, the new allocation of income powers provided by TEFRA may have eliminated the tax incentive for forming a professional corporation. The professional's decision whether to incorporate his practice will now rest with his desires as to how he wishes to carry out that practice. This article discusses the changes that TEFRA has wrought, and its impact on the professionals' decision to incorporate.
Go Abroad, Young Man, Go Abroad: The Economic Recovery Tax Act Of 1981'S Changes In The Treatment Of Foreign Earned Income, Sheldon J. Fleming
Go Abroad, Young Man, Go Abroad: The Economic Recovery Tax Act Of 1981'S Changes In The Treatment Of Foreign Earned Income, Sheldon J. Fleming
Pepperdine Law Review
The Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 made major revisions in the taxation of foreign earned income. The former tax provisions of sections 911 and 913failed in their purpose of equitably compensating individuals for the increased costs of working abroad, and have been replaced with a new section 911. The new law encourages Americans to go abroad by according them the most liberal tax benefits in over fifty years.
California Tax Practitioners Beware: Even The Ninth Circuit's I.R.C. Section 1031 Loophole Has Limits, Laurel A. Tollman
California Tax Practitioners Beware: Even The Ninth Circuit's I.R.C. Section 1031 Loophole Has Limits, Laurel A. Tollman
Pepperdine Law Review
Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code provides tax deferred status for like-kind exchanges of investment property. The Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 amends this section to curb the use of the controversial delayed exchange as a tool to suspend tax assessment for an inordinate period of time. California attorneys should beware the fiture structuring of like-kind exchanges;for the amendment revises the lenient procedures for like-kind qualification sanctioned by the permissive Ninth Circuit.
Circular 230 And Rules Of Professional Conduct In Giving Tax Advice, Robert D. Probasco
Circular 230 And Rules Of Professional Conduct In Giving Tax Advice, Robert D. Probasco
Robert Probasco
No abstract provided.
Reimagining The Law Of Self-Employment: A Comparative Perspective, Jayesh M. Rathod, Michal Skapski
Reimagining The Law Of Self-Employment: A Comparative Perspective, Jayesh M. Rathod, Michal Skapski
Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal
U.S. employment law has traditionally disfavored bright-line rules to distinguish between traditional “employees” and independent contractors, instead relying on more flexible criteria, to be applied on a case-by-case basis. This fluidity has enabled employers to structure these relationships – and the corresponding bundle of worker rights and benefits – in ways that serve their own material and normative interests. Indeed, recent employment law literature has noted a dramatic shift towards independent contracting and contingent worker schemes in the U.S., even when the actual workplace dynamics are more akin to an employer-employee relationship. These same trends are now visible on the …
Specificity, Blight And Two Tiers Of Tif: A Proposal For Reform Of Tax Increment Financing Law, Gil Williams
Specificity, Blight And Two Tiers Of Tif: A Proposal For Reform Of Tax Increment Financing Law, Gil Williams
Saint Louis University Public Law Review
No abstract provided.