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Partnership Profits Share For Services: An Aggregate Exegesis Of Revenue Procedure 93-27 (Part 1), John W. Lee Mar 1994

Partnership Profits Share For Services: An Aggregate Exegesis Of Revenue Procedure 93-27 (Part 1), John W. Lee

Faculty Publications

In this article, Lee charts two alternative methods for implementing an aggregate solution to the problem of partnership profits share exchanged for services. The functional, or judicial, method, he explains, is to handle (1) the exchange of partner-capacity services for a profit share subject to the risk of the venture with the Culbertson "common law relation of partnership," nonrealization event doctrine, implicitly contemplated by the 1984 legislative history to section 707(a)(2); (2) the classic Diamond transitory partner with a substance-over-form rule or step-transaction rule; and (3) a sale of the partnership interest in circumstances that would result in ordinary income …


The Morality Of Money: American Attitudes Toward Wealth And The Income Tax, Marjorie E. Kornhauser Jan 1994

The Morality Of Money: American Attitudes Toward Wealth And The Income Tax, Marjorie E. Kornhauser

Indiana Law Journal

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Tax Treatment Of Contingent Liabilities: The Need For Reform, Ellen H. De Mont Jan 1994

Tax Treatment Of Contingent Liabilities: The Need For Reform, Ellen H. De Mont

University of Richmond Law Review

The proper tax treatment of the assumption of deductible and nondeductible contingent liabilities' for both the buyer and seller in transactions involving taxable asset acquisitions is currently under debate. Case law precedents and the current state of the law are contradictory or, at best, uncertain. Authority on the buyer's side in particular is undefined and authority on the seller's side is sparse. From a tax policy perspective, it is desirable to avoid rules that yield inconsistent results. A healthy economy depends in part upon businesses being able to make decisions based upon expected tax consequences, and currently, a comfortable level …


Redemptions Incident To Divorce: Reconciling Section 1041 And General Tax Principles, Leandra Lederman Jan 1994

Redemptions Incident To Divorce: Reconciling Section 1041 And General Tax Principles, Leandra Lederman

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Section 338 And Its Foolish Consistency Rules - The Hobgoblin Of Little Minds, Douglas A. Kahn Jan 1994

Section 338 And Its Foolish Consistency Rules - The Hobgoblin Of Little Minds, Douglas A. Kahn

Articles

The purposes of this Article are to examine whether there is any longer a reason for concern because a target corporation can choose selected assets for nonrecognition and to what extent the 1994 regulations properly deal with potentially abusive circumventions of tax goals. Before examining the current status of the consistency requirements, the historical background that led to the adoption of Section 338 and the operation of the section is discussed. The historical background includes: the judicially created Kimbell-Diamond rule, the codification and modification of that rule by the old version of Section 334(b)(2), the operation of the old version …


The Double Standard Under Section 162: Why The Employee Business Deduction Is No Longer For Employees, Cheryl A. Cunagin Jan 1994

The Double Standard Under Section 162: Why The Employee Business Deduction Is No Longer For Employees, Cheryl A. Cunagin

Kentucky Law Journal

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