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Corporations-State Privilege Taxes-Valuation Of Property To Determine Surplus May 1935

Corporations-State Privilege Taxes-Valuation Of Property To Determine Surplus

Michigan Law Review

Various bases have been evolved in this country for computing corporation privilege taxes. Of special interest is the fact that seven states have made corporate surplus together with capital the basis for such taxes - Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas. The statutes of these states adopt either the gross value or the net value of the assets of corporations as the foundation of the tax, depending upon whether or not liabilities may be deducted. In fixing the amount of such a tax, some valuation of corporate property to determine the corporation's surplus is necessary.


Minimizing Federal Income Taxes Upon The Sale Of Corporate Assets, Jackson D. Altizer Feb 1933

Minimizing Federal Income Taxes Upon The Sale Of Corporate Assets, Jackson D. Altizer

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Receivers - Liability For Corporate Franchise Taxes Accruing After Appointment Jun 1932

Receivers - Liability For Corporate Franchise Taxes Accruing After Appointment

Michigan Law Review

In a comment appearing in the May issue of the Review (30 MICH. L. REV. 1094), this writer considered the existing conflict of decisions on the question of a receiver's liability for corporate franchise taxes accruing during the period of receivership. The opposing views, as represented by In Re Detroit Properties Co., 254 Mich. 523, 236 N. W. 850 (1931), and Michigan Trust Co. v. Michigan (C. C. A. 6th, 1931) 52 F.(2d) 842, were compared and evaluated. Both decisions were based on the same Michigan statute (2 Comp. Laws 1929, sec. 10140). It was pointed out that the …


Receivers -Liability For Corporate Franchise Taxes Accruing After Appointment May 1932

Receivers -Liability For Corporate Franchise Taxes Accruing After Appointment

Michigan Law Review

General business conditions of the last three years have made the field of receivership law an extremely interesting and important one to that portion of the bar which has been picking up the pieces left by the debacle of 1929. The widespread liquidation and dissolution of great business organizations has been effected in large part through the medium of the receivership. One of the more difficult problems arising in connection with such receiverships has been the liability of the receiver for franchise taxes. Such taxes have been held to be not property levies but excises on the privilege to carry …


Corporations-Subsidiary's Evasion Of Income Tax Law By Contract With Parent Company-Income Attributable To Business Transacted Within The State Mar 1931

Corporations-Subsidiary's Evasion Of Income Tax Law By Contract With Parent Company-Income Attributable To Business Transacted Within The State

Michigan Law Review

The Palmolive company sought to reduce to a minimum the amount of its income taxable in Wisconsin. Three companies were formed which, for convenience' sake, will be designated as: parent company, a Delaware corporation; plaintiff company, a Delaware corporation; and Wisconsin company, a Wisconsin corporation. The parent company acquired all the capital stock of the Wisconsin company, and then acquired all its assets outside the state of Wisconsin, surrendering therefor part of the stock of the Wisconsin company so acquired. The balance of the capital stock of the Wisconsin company the parent company transferred to plaintiff company in exchange for …


Corporations-Tax Upon Extension Or Renewal Of Corporate Term Mar 1931

Corporations-Tax Upon Extension Or Renewal Of Corporate Term

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff, its period of corporate existence expiring in May, 1929, proceeded to extend its life, as provided by law, for another 30 years. The general corporation statute required a corporation, upon filing its annual report, to pay a privilege fee for exercising its franchises. It provided, however, that if the corporation was organized in the instant year between January 1 and August 31, it need pay only a filing fee and a privilege fee of ten dollars. By amendment in 1929, it was declared that a corporation seeking extension of corporate existence "should be regarded as a new corporation for …


Effect Of Tax Exemption And Tax Refunding Provisions On The Negotiability Of Corporate Bonds Nov 1930

Effect Of Tax Exemption And Tax Refunding Provisions On The Negotiability Of Corporate Bonds

Michigan Law Review

The Connecticut court in a series of recent cases has cast considerable doubt on the negotiability of bonds containing provisions for payment without deduction for taxes and for refunding of personal property taxes paid by the holder on account of the instrument. In Mechanic's Bank v. Johnson it held a promissory note containing a promise to pay taxes assessed against the instrument non-negotiable on the ground that the amount was uncertain. In Mazurkiewicz v. Dowholonek it held unconstitutional an act, passed after the earlier decision, establishing the negotiability of such instruments already in circulation, on the ground that it impaired …


Taxation-Constitutional Law-Classifcation Of Corporations May 1929

Taxation-Constitutional Law-Classifcation Of Corporations

Michigan Law Review

The equal protection clause does not detract from the right of the state justly to exert its taxing power or prevent it from adjusting its legislation to differences in situation or forbid classification in that connection, but it does require that the classification be not arbitrary, but based on a real and substantial difference having a reasonable relation to the subject of the particular legislation. Though this is the generally accepted rule as to classification, it has long been recognized by the Supreme Court that the very nature of taxation demands that the legislatures be given the widest sort of …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Mar 1922

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Carriers of Passengers - Duty to Stop at Station to Permit Passenger to Alight-Contributory Negligence of Passenger Plaintiff's intestate was riding in the front end of a crowded vestibule car in the coach next to the tender of the eengine. When the train stopped at his station he tried to leave by the front end, but found the door from the vestibule closed. As he did not know how to open it, or was unwilling to be carried by his station, he stepped from his platform to the bumper of the tender and tried to follow it to the side …


Domestic Corporate Tangible And Intangible Invested Capital, Frederick M. Thulin Jan 1919

Domestic Corporate Tangible And Intangible Invested Capital, Frederick M. Thulin

Michigan Law Review

With a tax law on the statute books that fixes a moderate flat rate of taxation on business income, no question of invested capital need be considered. The income tax laws of 1913 and 1916 and the flat rate or normal tax section of the 1917 law and the proposed 1918 law bear out this statement.