Political Justice And Tax Policy: The Social Welfare Organization Case,
2021
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Political Justice And Tax Policy: The Social Welfare Organization Case, Philip Hackney
Articles
In addition to valuing whether a tax policy is equitable, efficient, and administrable, I argue we should ask if a tax policy is politically just. Others have made a similar case for valuing political justice as democracy in implementing just tax policy. I join that call and highlight why it matters in one arena – tax exemption. I argue that politically just tax policy does the least harm to the democratic functioning of our government and may ideally enhance it. I argue that our right to an equal voice in collective decision making is the most fundamental value of political justice ...
Table Of Contents,
2021
Seattle University School of Law
Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review
Seattle University Law Review
Table of Contents
The Spirit Is Willing: A Proposal For American Single Malt Whiskey,
2021
Seattle University School of Law
The Spirit Is Willing: A Proposal For American Single Malt Whiskey, Raymond Cleaveland
Seattle University Law Review
Over the past twenty-five years, small, independent American distilleries have carved out a new niche in the United States liquor market: craft single malt whiskey. Inspired by the success of single malt Scotch and other single malts, American craft distillers are now fighting for their own shelf behind the bar and in the liquor store aisle. In 2018, a cadre of these distillers petitioned the U.S. Treasury Department’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau to formally recognize a new category of whiskey in the Code of Federal Regulations: American Single Malt Whiskey. For purposes of consumer protection ...
Enough Is As Good As A Feast,
2020
Seattle University School of Law
Enough Is As Good As A Feast, Noah C. Chauvin
Seattle University Law Review
Ipse Dixit, the podcast on legal scholarship, provides a valuable service to the legal community and particularly to the legal academy. The podcast’s hosts skillfully interview guests about their legal and law-related scholarship, helping those guests communicate their ideas clearly and concisely. In this review essay, I argue that Ipse Dixit has made a major contribution to legal scholarship by demonstrating in its interview episodes that law review articles are neither the only nor the best way of communicating scholarly ideas. This contribution should be considered “scholarship,” because one of the primary goals of scholarship is to communicate new ...
Redesigning Education Finance: How Student Loans Outgrew The “Debt” Paradigm,
2020
Georgetown University Law Center
Redesigning Education Finance: How Student Loans Outgrew The “Debt” Paradigm, John R. Brooks, Adam J. Levitin
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This Article argues that the student loan crisis is due not to the scale of student loan debt, but to the federal education finance system’s failure to utilize its existing mechanisms for progressive, income-based payments and debt cancellation. These mechanisms can make investment in higher education affordable to both individuals and the government, but they have not been fully utilized because of the mismatch between the current system’s economic reality and its legal, financial, and institutional apparatus.
The current economic structure of federal student loans does not resemble a true credit product, but a government grant program coupled ...
The Case For State Borrowing As A Response To The Current Crisis,
2020
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
The Case For State Borrowing As A Response To The Current Crisis, David Gamage, Darien Shanske
Articles by Maurer Faculty
The coronavirus pandemic is a national emergency that requires a national response. Asking states to absorb the budgetary losses caused by the pandemic while they are tasked with providing essential frontline services is comparable to asking states during World War II to pay for the landing in Normandy.
This article is a contribution to Project SAFE: State Action in Fiscal Emergencies. We have already argued, more than once , that the federal government should borrow to prevent steep state and local budget cuts. But because the federal government will apparently not take sufficient action, we offer these ideas to states for ...
Table Of Contents,
2020
Seattle University School of Law
Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review
Seattle University Law Review
Table of Contents
Tax Complexity And Technology,
2020
Boston Univeristy School of Law
Tax Complexity And Technology, David Walker
Faculty Scholarship
The federal income tax code has become increasingly complex over time with the implication that many taxpayers no longer understand the connection between their life decisions and their taxes. Some commentators have suggested that increasing computational complexity may be attributable in part to the proliferation of tax preparation software that renders such complexity manageable at filing time, but otherwise does nothing to mitigate the “black box” nature of the tax system. While such complexity and opacity undercut explicit incentives embedded in the Code, make planning more difficult, and undermine political accountability for taxes, they may also reduce the inefficient distortion ...
H.R. 4286 (116th Congress) - Virtual Apprenticeship Tax Credit Act Of 2019,
2020
San Jose State University
H.R. 4286 (116th Congress) - Virtual Apprenticeship Tax Credit Act Of 2019, Mst Students Bus 223a Fall 2019
The Contemporary Tax Journal
No abstract provided.
Not Signing A Return,
2020
San Jose State University
Not Signing A Return, Liubov (Luba) Shilkova
The Contemporary Tax Journal
No abstract provided.
Tax Treatment For Post-Retirement Payments,
2020
San Jose State University
Tax Treatment For Post-Retirement Payments, Xiaoyue Tan
The Contemporary Tax Journal
No abstract provided.
Front Matter (Letter From The Editor, Masthead, Etc.),
2020
San Jose State University
Front Matter (Letter From The Editor, Masthead, Etc.)
The Contemporary Tax Journal
No abstract provided.
Strategic Nonconformity To The Tcja, Part I: Personal Income Taxes,
2020
University of California, Davis
Strategic Nonconformity To The Tcja, Part I: Personal Income Taxes, Darien Shanske, Adam Thimmesch, David Gamage
Articles by Maurer Faculty
The dire revenue situation that COVID-19 has created for state and local governments is a welldocumented and looming reality for state legislatures. We and others have explored a variety of ways that states should respond to this crisis in prior articles as a part of Project SAFE (State Action in Fiscal Emergencies), an academic effort to help states weather the fiscal crisis by providing policy recommendations backed by research. We think, as do many others, that in the absence of sufficient federal action, the states should prioritize raising revenue through targeted taxes on economic actors that are best enduring the ...
Understanding The Revenue Potential Of Tax Compliance Investment,
2020
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Understanding The Revenue Potential Of Tax Compliance Investment, Natasha Sarin, Lawrence H. Summers
Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law
In a July 2020 report, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that modest investments in the IRS would generate somewhere between $60 and $100 billion in additional revenue over a decade. This is qualitatively correct. But quantitatively, the revenue potential is much more significant than the CBO report suggests. We highlight five reasons for the CBO’s underestimation: 1) the scale of the investment in the IRS contemplated is modest and far short of sufficient even to return the IRS budget to 2011 levels; 2) the CBO contemplates a limited range of interventions, excluding entirely progress on information reporting and technological ...
Debugging Irs Notice 2014-21: Creating A Viable Cryptocurrency Taxation Plan,
2020
Brooklyn Law School
Debugging Irs Notice 2014-21: Creating A Viable Cryptocurrency Taxation Plan, Alex Ankier
Brooklyn Law Review
In 2014, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2014-21 in an attempt to address issues with cryptocurrency taxation, essentially reaching the conclusion that cryptocurrency must be treated like property for purposes of taxation. In the time since the IRS pronouncement, several academics have called for an alternative treatment known as “currency treatment.” Each treatment inadequately addresses the comprehensive issues surrounding cryptocurrency because they offer wholesale treatment to nuanced issues with valid concerns from each side. To truly allow this emerging industry to flourish and gain societal acceptance, artful policymaking is required. This note provides an example of such policymaking ...
Conformity And State Income Taxes: Suggestions For The Crisis,
2020
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Conformity And State Income Taxes: Suggestions For The Crisis, David Gamage, Michael A. Livingston
Articles by Maurer Faculty
To guarantee adequate revenue in the postCOVID-19 era, state governments should consider using all possible tools at their disposal. This article explains how and why state governments should evaluate their degree of conformity with federal tax changes in order to achieve this purpose.
Federal Income Taxation,
2020
Mercer University School of Law
Federal Income Taxation, Nikolai Karetnyi, Ruoxi Zhang
Mercer Law Review
In the year 2019, the federal courts within the Eleventh Circuit handed down several notable opinions on federal tax issues. This Article surveys two of those opinions involving the taxation of shareholder loans to S corporations and the application of gross valuation-misstatement penalty to partnerships.
States Should Consider Partial Wealth Tax Reforms,
2020
Indiana University Maurer School of La
States Should Consider Partial Wealth Tax Reforms, David Gamage, Darien Shanske
Articles by Maurer Faculty
This article is a contribution to Project SAFE (State Action in Fiscal Emergencies). In other essays in this project, we explain steps the federal government should take to help state and local governments cope with their looming budget crises. The federal government is much better positioned to manage these crises than states and localities and, ideally, it would act sufficiently to prevent the need for state and local governments to cut spending or raise taxes. However, we fear that the federal government may fail to act sufficiently, leaving states and localities with the need to make painful spending cuts, raise ...
Qap Out: Why The Federal Government Should Require More From How States Allocate Low-Income Housing Tax Credits,
2020
Brooklyn Law School
Qap Out: Why The Federal Government Should Require More From How States Allocate Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, Connor Blancato
Journal of Law and Policy
Prohibitively high land acquisition and construction costs block affordable housing developers from using the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program in high opportunity areas. Policymakers must study the history of housing policy in the United States and realize that the LIHTC program works because it suitably balances previously problematic private-market competition, federalism concerns, and compliance issues. Federal lawmakers can look to Qualified Allocation Plans drafted by individual states as a way to encourage the construction of affordable housing without upsetting this equilibrium. To encourage such development, the federal government can require states, in determining tax credit allocations through QAPs, to give ...
How The Federal Reserve Should Help States And Localities Right Now,
2020
University of California, Davis
How The Federal Reserve Should Help States And Localities Right Now, Darien Shanske, David Gamage
Articles by Maurer Faculty
The COVID-19 pandemic is a giant catastrophe, but the Federal Reserve can still mitigate the looming fiscal crises facing state and local governments. This article — a contribution to Project SAFE (State Action in Fiscal Emergencies) — builds on our prior background essay explaining state and local budget issues.