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Is An Employment-Discrimination Award Taxable?, L. Scott Stafford

Law Faculty Scholarship

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Tax Expenditure Budgets: A Critical View, Douglas A. Kahn, Jeffrey S. Lehman

Articles

During the past few months, Tax Notes has featured an extended discussion about the "normalcy" (or lack thereof) of accelerated depreciation. Two contributions to that discussion came from Professor Calvin Johnson of the University of Texas Law School, who disagreed with certain aspects of an article that Professor Kahn wrote in 1979. And the debate shows no sign of slowing down. The interchange over the details of accelerated depreciation offers a useful backdrop against which to consider a more general issue: the intellectual coherence of the tax expenditure budgets. The larger concept of tax expenditures was what motivated Kahn to …

Commentary: The Tax Legislative Process -- A Critical Need, William D. Popkin

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Income Tax Rhetoric (Or Why Do We Want Tax Reform?), Beverly I. Moran

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The 1992 presidential election is over but the United States economy still faces hard times. Each man who hoped to lead us promised to revive our sick economy, and each cure promised included a strong dose of tax reform. At no time during the campaign or the transition did anyone seem to ask: Can tax reform actually increase employment, lower the deficit, nwerse our trade imbalance, or provide any other boost out of the recession? Why do Americans accept the notion that economic recovery requires tax reform? We did not always think this way. Why does it seem so natural …

Tax Policy And Panda Bears, Douglas A. Kahn, Jeffrey S. Lehman

Articles

In this article. Professors Kahn and Lehman argue that the concept of tax expenditure is flawed as a tool for measuring the propriety of tax provisions. It assumes the existence of on true and correct standard of federal income taxation that applies to all circumstances. To make that a assumption, the proponents of the concept implicitly make a particular moral claim about the relative importance of a wide range of values, including efficiency, consumption/savings neutrality, privacy, distributional equity, administrabiliy, charity, and pragmatism. They then measure a tax provision's "normalcy" exclusively by how it conforms to their Platonic concept of income. …

Does Treasury Have Authority To Index Basis For Inflation?, Lawrence A. Zelenak

Faculty Scholarship

In this article he examines the claim, which has been publicized in recent months, that the Treasury Department could unilaterally index the capital gains tax for inflation by a new regulation interpreting code section 1012. He concludes, in light of more than seven decades of administrative, judicial and legislative history, that such unilateral action would be invalid.

Recent Developments In The Income Taxation Of Individuals, Partnerships, Estates, & Trusts, Meade Emory

William & Mary Annual Tax Conference

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Taxation Of Punitive Damages: Interpreting Section 104(A)(2) After The Revenue Reconciliation Act Of 1989, Craig Day

Washington Law Review

The Internal Revenue Service and the courts have wavered on whether punitive damages are taxable under the Internal Revenue Code. Just after the Fourth Circuit boldly declared that punitive damages are taxable, Congress amended section 104(a)(2) to tax punitive damages in cases where no physical injury is involved. Neither the courts nor the Internal Revenue Service have answered the question whether punitive damages in cases that do involve physical injury are taxable. This Comment examines the language of the amended statute and the policies leading to its enactment, and proposes that punitive damages be taxed without regard to the nature …

And The Rebuttal, Glenn E. Coven

Faculty Publications

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Federal Taxation, Steven C. Evans

Mercer Law Review

The federal tax cases decided by the Eleventh Circuit during 1990 were surprising in several respects. First, the number of procedural tax cases decided by the Eleventh Circuit was surprisingly low when compared to the number of procedural cases decided in previous years. Second, and more importantly, cases decided under the Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA") constituted the vast majority of substantive tax cases decided by the Eleventh Circuit.during 1990. This trend is evidence of the increasing amount of litigation under ERISA and the importance of ERISA to the tax practitioner.

The Taxpayer's Duty Of Consistency, Steve R. Johnson

Scholarly Publications

A transaction may affect the taxpayer's federal tax liability for both the current period and subsequent periods. No difficulty arises if the taxpayer treats the transaction consistently over the periods. However, significant tax distortions are possible if the taxpayer's characterization of the transaction varies from period to period. A recharacterization may be particularly troublesome if the statute of limitations has expired, and the first period is not open to correction at the time the inconsistent representation is made.

The duty of consistency was developed to address this problem. If the duty applies, the taxpayer is not permitted to shift his …

The Ethics Reform Act Of 1989: Why The Taxman Can't Be A Paperback Writer, David A. Golden

BYU Law Review

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Environmental Accountability Beyond Compliance: Externalities And Accounting, Arthur J. Jacobson

Cardozo Law Review

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Corporations, Shareholders, And The Environmental Agenda, Nell Minow, Michael Deal

Cardozo Law Review

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Begier V. Irs, Guy Lamoyne Black

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

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Lost On A One-Way Street: The Taxpayer's Ability To Disavow Form, William S. Blatt

Articles

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How Good A Samaritan? Federal Income Tax Exemption For Charitable Hospitals Reconsidered, James B. Simpson, Sarah D. Strum

Seattle University Law Review

Do contemporary charitable hospitals provide a sufficient community benefit to justify the loss of government revenue caused by their tax exemption? Focusing particularly on federal income tax exemption and on the community benefit derived from the provision of services to persons unable to pay, this Article argues that not all hospitals do. Accordingly, the authors recommend that the Internal Revenue Service issue a Revenue Ruling revising the current standards for federal income tax exemption to encourage charitable hospitals to clearly and explicitly identify and respond to health care needs, including the needs of persons unable to pay, in their local …

Tax-Free Security: Federal Income Taxation Of Customer Deposits After Commissioner V. Indianapolis Power & Light Co., 110 S. Ct. 589 (1990), Alisa Eid

Washington Law Review

In Commissioner v. Indianapolis Power & Light Co., the Supreme Court held that a taxpayer receiving a customer deposit to secure future payment for goods or services may exclude that deposit from income if the taxpayer obligates itself to refund the deposit and if the customer retains the right to cancel service at any time. Because these conditions characterize virtually all security deposits, the Court's rule will allow taxpayers to exclude most security deposits from income. This Note examines the Court's decision and suggests that the Court's rule should not be extended to any situation where either the obligation to …

Equitable Recoupment Revisited: The Scope Of The Doctrine In Federal Tax Cases After United States V. Dalm, James E. Tierney

Kentucky Law Journal

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Equal Protection

Touro Law Review

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Of Form And Substance: Tax-Free Incorporations And Other Transactions Under Section 351, Ronald H. Jensen

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This article presents three principal theses: First, the courts and the Internal Revenue Service have misapplied the substance over form doctrine to the binding obligation cases under section 351 and in the process have created a hodgepodge of hopelessly irreconcilable and frequently wrong decisions. Part II of this article illustrates the inconsistencies and contradictions found in current law. Part III diagnoses the reason for this malaise: the unthinking, mechanical and therefore erroneous application of the step transaction doctrine. Part IV then develops the true function of the doctrine: to assure that clearly defined statutory purposes are not frustrated by plans …

Badlands: Artist-Personal Manager Conflicts Of Interest In The Music Industry, Hal I. Gilenson

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

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Assessing The Limited Liability Company, Wayne M. Gazur, Neil M. Goff

Publications

The limited liability company is one of the newest forms of business organization. This form combines the limited liability of a corporation with the tax benefits normally associated with a partnership. The authors examine various implications and ramifications of this organizational form.

Death And Taxes: The Taxation Of Accelerated Death Benefits For The Terminally Ill, Wayne M. Gazur

Publications

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Redefining Debt: Of Indianapolis Power And Fictitious Interest, Glenn E. Coven

Faculty Publications

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When Fungible Portfolio Assets Meet: A Problem Of Tax Recognition, Alan L. Feld

Faculty Scholarship

A pervasive principle in calculating income for Federal tax purposes defers consideration of gain or loss in an investment asset until a recognition event occurs. An investor can watch the value of an investment in common stock rise over a considerable period of time without incurring any tax liability. Similarly, if the value declines, the investor does not take the loss into account. When the investor terminates the investment, the tax computation takes the net accumulated gain or loss into account at that time.

Discussion and controversy concerning this deferral principle, referred to as the realization or recognition requirement,^{1 …}

Federal Tax Amnesty: Crime And Punishment Revisited, Leo P. Martinez

Faculty Scholarship

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The Taxpayer's Duty Of Consistency, Steve R. Johnson

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Taxing Service Partners To Achieve Horizontal Equity, Henry Ordower

All Faculty Scholarship

Argues that recent judicial and administrative decisions cause the federal income tax law to tax partners who receive their partnership interests in exchange for services more favorably than partners who acquire their partnership interests in exchange for money or property. Such dissimilar treatment undercuts the desired taxation objective of even-handed treatment of all taxpayers.

Living With Passive Losses - A Practival Approach, Richard M. Lipton

William & Mary Annual Tax Conference

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