| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Amy Ciardiello |
PROHIBITING THE PUNISHMENT OF POVERTY: THE ABOLITION OF WEALTH-BASED CRIMINAL DISENFRANCHISEMENT |
54 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 917 (Summer, 2021) |
The majority of U.S. states disenfranchise formerly incarcerated individuals because of their poverty by conditioning re-enfranchisement on the full payment of legal financial obligations. This Note discusses the practice of wealth-based criminal disenfranchisement where the inability to pay legal financial obligations, including fines, fees,... |
2021 |
| Cameron M. Baskett , Christopher G. Bradley |
PROPERTY TAX PRIVATEERS |
41 Virginia Tax Review 89 (Fall, 2021) |
Many states permit local governments to sell third parties the right to collect overdue property taxes, together with interest and fees. We call these third-party investors property tax privateers, because they are empowered to pursue claims that are essentially the state's, in search of a sizable bounty. Privateers are often anonymous LLCs with... |
2021 |
| Robert Rizzi |
RACE TO THE MINIMUM: THE NEW CORPORATE TAX REFORM |
48 Corporate Taxation 30 (July/August, 2021) |
With the latest reform proposals released in April, the Biden administration has signaled a series of changes to the corporate income tax, most of which are set forth (for the moment) in outline form. Some of these proposals, such as the book income plan, discussed further below, were anticipated based upon statements released during the... |
2021 |
| Bruce A. McGovern , Cassady V. (“Cass”) Brewer , James M. Delaney |
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN FEDERAL INCOME TAXATION: THE YEAR 2020 |
74 Tax Lawyer 691 (Summer, 2021) |
This Article summarizes and provides context to understand the most important developments in federal income taxation for the year 2020. The items discussed primarily consist of the following: (1) significant amendments to the Internal Revenue Code; (2) important judicial decisions; and (3) noteworthy administrative rulings and regulations... |
2021 |
| Joseph E. Simmons |
RECONSTRUCTING THE BANKRUPTCY POWER: AN ORIGINALIST APPROACH |
131 Yale Law Journal 306 (October, 2021) |
This Note responds to two distinct difficulties in the constitutional law of bankruptcy. First, many bankruptcy scholars and practitioners intuit that the Thirteenth Amendment places important limitations on the law of personal bankruptcy, but this intuition is difficult to cash out in a convincing legal argument. Second, modern... |
2021 |
| McKay Cunningham , Latonia Haney Keith |
REDLINING AND INTERGENERATIONAL WEALTH |
64-DEC Advocate 24 (November/December, 2021) |
This April, HB 377 was signed into law. The new law aims to ban critical race theory in Idaho public schools. President Trump had previously issued an executive order excluding from federal contracts any diversity training interpreted as containing Divisive Concepts. Among the content considered divisive was critical race theory. The debate,... |
2021 |
| Arthur Cockfield |
SECRETS OF THE PANAMA PAPERS: HOW TAX HAVENS EXACERBATE INCOME INEQUALITY |
13 Columbia Journal of Tax Law 45 (Winter 2021) |
Data leaks like the Panama Papers show how tax havens provide a secret offshore financial system that privileges three main actors: malefactors, millionaires, and multinational corporations. Such leaks have provided millions of documents detailing how certain taxpayers benefit from tax haven services. Wealthy criminals use the offshore world to... |
2021 |
| Shay Moyal |
SECTION 267A AND THE TAXATION OF HYBRID MISMATCHES UNDER THE CODE |
74 Tax Lawyer 231 (Winter, 2021) |
Hybrid mismatches arise because of differences in the tax rules of different countries. Such mismatches have allowed multinationals to minimize their tax liabilities. As tools for minimizing tax liability, hybrid mismatches have troubled tax legislators and tax scholars in many countries and have evoked intriguing intellectual discussions... |
2021 |
| Reuven Avi-Yonah |
SHOULD U.S. TAX LAW BE CONSTITUTIONALIZED? CENTENNIAL REFLECTIONS ON EISNER v. MACOMBER (1920) |
16 Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy 65 (Spring, 2021) |
The United States Supreme Court last decided a federal income tax case on constitutional grounds in 1920--a century ago. The case was Eisner v. Macomber, and the issue was whether Congress had the power under the Sixteenth Amendment to include stock dividends in the tax base. The Court answered no because income in the Sixteenth Amendment meant... |
2021 |
| Susannah Camic Tahk |
SPILLOVER TAX PRECEDENT |
2021 Wisconsin Law Review 657 (2021) |
We know that pro se litigants often lose. However, we know almost nothing about the circumstances in which they win. One such circumstance, this Article finds, is when they can take advantage of favorable precedent. This Article calls those favorable precedents for pro se litigants spillover precedents. Spillover precedents are cases with... |
2021 |
| Michelle D. Layser |
SUBSIDIZING GENTRIFICATION: A SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF PLACE-BASED TAX INCENTIVES |
12 UC Irvine Law Review 163 (November, 2021) |
Place-based tax incentives, such as the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) and Opportunity Zones incentives, are often used to promote investment in low-income neighborhoods. However, not all low-income neighborhoods have an equal need for investment subsidies. Subsidies for investment in already gentrifying neighborhoods, for example, may reflect... |
2021 |
| Leslie Book |
TAX ADMINISTRATION AND RACIAL JUSTICE: THE ILLEGAL DENIAL OF TAX-BASED PANDEMIC RELIEF TO THE NATION'S INCARCERATED POPULATION |
72 South Carolina Law Review 667 (Spring, 2021) |
I. Introduction. 667 II. The Litigation over the IRS Policy. 677 A. The District Court Finds the IRS's Actions Illegal. 677 B. Getting Prisoners the Money: Implementation Issues. 681 III. The Harmful Impact of the IRS's Policy of Denying Benefits to the Incarcerated. 684 IV. How the Concept of Racialized Burdens Gives Deeper Meaning to the IRS's... |
2021 |
| Bridget J. Crawford , Wendy C. Gerzog |
TAX BENEFITS, HIGHER EDUCATION, AND RACE: A GIFT TAX PROPOSAL FOR DIRECT TUITION PAYMENTS |
72 South Carolina Law Review 783 (Spring, 2021) |
I. Introduction. 784 II. Higher Education Costs. 791 A. Tuition and Fees. 791 B. Student Debt and Loan Repayment. 792 III. Tax Benefits for Higher Education. 794 A. Overview of Income Tax Benefits. 794 B. Overview of Wealth Transfer Tax Benefits. 796 C. Tax Expenditures for Education. 799 IV. Aproposal to Eliminate Tax Benefits for Direct Payments... |
2021 |
| Phyllis C. Taite |
TAX CODE BIAS AND ITS STARRING ROLE IN PERPETUATING INEQUALITIES |
72 South Carolina Law Review 735 (Spring, 2021) |
I. Introduction. 735 II. Justice Matters. 737 A. The Social Justice Agenda. 737 B. Economic Justice. 738 III. Wealth Matters. 741 A. Capital Gains. 741 B. Transfer Taxes. 745 C. The Effect of Tax Reform. 747 IV. Homeownership matters. 749 A. Homeownership Rates and Their Impact on Wealth Building. 749 B. Mortgage Interest Deduction. 751 C. Gains... |
2021 |
| Karen B. Brown |
TAX INCENTIVES AND SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA |
48 Pepperdine Law Review 995 (July, 2021) |
The OECD's Base Erosion Profit Shifting (BEPS) project has taken a powerful and welcome look at many of the tax avoidance strategies that proliferate in a world where multinational enterprises are in the business of exploiting gaps in the tax laws of different countries to minimize their ultimate tax bills. The focus on international consensus and... |
2021 |
| Shayak Sarkar |
TAX LAW'S MIGRATION |
62 Boston College Law Review 2209 (October, 2021) |
Introduction. 2210 I. Historic Taxation to Shape Migration and Migrants. 2216 A. Colonies of Migrant Taxation. 2217 B. Taxation and Migration Beyond the Colonies. 2219 C. Modern Migration and the Public Fisc. 2223 II. Contemporary Instances of Tax Law's Migration. 2227 A. Pandemic Relief. 2227 1. Round One of Pandemic Relief and Constitutional... |
2021 |
| Jordan M. Wayburn |
TAXATION AND RACIAL INJUSTICE IN SOUTH CAROLINA |
72 South Carolina Law Review 847 (Spring, 2021) |
I. Introduction. 847 II. South Carolina's Story: The Problem. 850 A. Racial Animus: The South Carolina Constitution of 1895 and Disenfranchisement by Taxation. 851 1. Literacy Tests and the Property Tax Exemption. 853 2. The Poll Tax. 857 B. Abuse of Demographic Differences: South Carolina Public School Desegregation and Funding. 858 C. Facially... |
2021 |
| Jeesoo Nam |
TAXING OPTION LUCK |
11 UC Irvine Law Review 1067 (April, 2021) |
As economic inequality reaches new heights every decade, academics stress the importance of the tax system in matters of equity. In contemporary winner-take-all markets, much of the massive income and wealth accumulated by the rich are the result of deliberate and calculated economic gambles that turned out in their favor. Yet theories of... |
2021 |
| Laura Snyder |
TAXING THE AMERICAN EMIGRANT |
74 Tax Lawyer 299 (Winter, 2021) |
American emigrants face many consequences from the extraterritorial application of U.S. taxation and banking policies. Their names, addresses, and Social Security numbers are collected, placed on lists of suspected U.S. persons, and submitted to a Crimes Enforcement Network. They struggle with incompatible tax systems, resulting in penalizing... |
2021 |
| Steven A. Dean , Attiya Waris |
TEN TRUTHS ABOUT TAX HAVENS: INCLUSION AND THE "LIBERIA" PROBLEM |
70 Emory Law Journal 1657 (2021) |
There has been a decades-long effort to repair an increasingly fragile international tax system. One reason it has foundered has been what we identify as the Liberia problem. In 2000, the powerful Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development identified Liberia--but not Switzerland--as a tax haven and targeted it for sanctions. It did not... |
2021 |
| Bruce Grohsgal |
THE ALTERATION OF EX ANTE AGREEMENTS BY THE BANKRUPTCY CODE |
95 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 713 (Winter 2021) |
This article proposes an analytic framework for deciding if a pre-bankruptcy (ex ante) agreement is unenforceable post-bankruptcy (ex post). Ex ante contracts are at issue in nearly every bankruptcy case, and ex ante contracting in anticipation of bankruptcy is commonplace. Determining non-enforceability can be difficult, because while ex ante... |
2021 |
| Mark Dorosin |
THE BATTLE OF BRANDY CREEK: HOW ONE BLACK COMMUNITY FOUGHT ANNEXATION, TAX REVALUATION, AND DISPLACEMENT |
72 South Carolina Law Review 817 (Spring, 2021) |
I. Introduction. 817 II. The Plan to Redevelop and Displace. 819 A. The Proposal. 819 B. Legislative Annexation. 820 C. One Sale, and the Community Is Cut in Half. 823 D. The 2007 Tax Reassessment. 825 III. The Community Fights Back. 829 A. Deannexation. 830 B. Reassessment. 834 C. Property Tax Refunds. 837 IV. Annexation, Taxation, and the... |
2021 |
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The CFPB Enters Consumer Bankruptcy |
41 Bankruptcy Law Letter 1 (October 1, 2021) |
In late 2020, Senator Elizabeth Warren and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler introduced the Consumer Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2020 (the CBRA or Act).[ ] The Act presents a wholesale restructuring of the consumer bankruptcy process. It proposes, among other things, to consolidate chapters 7 and 13 into a unified chapter 10 process,... |
2021 |
| Alexander Cirkovic Koban |
THE DISPARATE TREATMENT OF DEBTORS IN COURTS OF EQUITY: WHY THE DENIAL OF PAYCHECK PROTECTION PROGRAM FUNDING TO DEBTORS IN BANKRUPTCY CONSTITUTES DISCRIMINATORY TREATMENT UNDER SECTION 525 OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE |
29 American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review 283 (Summer, 2021) |
C1-2Table of contents Introduction. 285 I. Protection Against Discriminatory Treatment by Governmental Units Under the Bankruptcy Code. 286 A. Under 11 U.S.C. § 525(a), a Governmental Unit May Not Discriminate Against a Person That Is or Has Been a Debtor. 286 II. The CARES Act and the Interim Final Rule. 288 A. The Purpose of the CARES Act Was,... |
2021 |
| Bruce Grohsgal |
THE LONG STRANGE TRIP TO A CERTAINTY OF HOPELESSNESS: THE LEGISLATIVE AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE NONDISCHARGE OF STUDENT LOANS IN BANKRUPTCY |
95 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 443 (Fall, 2021) |
The bankruptcy statute bars the discharge of a student loan unless the debtor proves undue hardship. Courts have construed this to mean perpetual impoverishment or a certainty of hopelessness. This harsh restriction stands in stark contrast to the elemental bankruptcy policy of a fresh start and furthers no countervailing policy. The stated... |
2021 |
| Artika R. Tyner |
THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP: STRATEGIES FOR ADDRESSING THE FINANCIAL IMPACT OF MASS INCARCERATION ON THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY |
28 George Mason Law Review 885 (Spring, 2021) |
The wealth gap between blacks and whites is projected to take 228 years to bridge, which may appear to be an insurmountable challenge. Yet, identifying the challenge and facing the reality of its contributing factors is the first step towards addressing the issue. Economists and scholars have identified many contributing factors influencing this... |
2021 |
| Dorothy A. Brown |
THE SOUTH BRONX HAS SOMETHING TO SAY: SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE |
72 South Carolina Law Review 617 (Spring, 2021) |
My book, The Whiteness of Wealth, was recently published by Crown. It looks at how systemic racism and federal tax policies compound our racial wealth gap. My book is based on my research that began with an invitation in the mid-1990s from Karen Brown and Mary Louise Fellows, who were editing a book called Taxing America. My chapter, entitled The... |
2021 |
| David S. Miller |
THE TAX GUIDE TO OFFSHORE LENDING |
74 Tax Lawyer 523 (Spring, 2021) |
The Article explains the various structures that permit offshore funds with U.S. managers to originate loans without the fund or its investors being subject to any meaningful amount of U.S. tax. The Article also discusses a legislative change that would render these structures moot. L1-2Table of Contents I. The Rise of Nonbank Lending. 525 II.... |
2021 |
| Alexander Gouzoules |
"UNDUE HARDSHIP" AND UNINSURED AMERICANS: HOW ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE SHOULD IMPACT STUDENT-LOAN DISCHARGE IN BANKRUPTCY |
69 Emory Law Journal Online 2019 (2020) |
American student-loan debt has reached a staggering sum. Student loans rank below only housing as the second-largest form of household debt, with $1.4 trillion outstanding. From 1990 to 2016, average college tuition rose by 57% at private universities and 93% at public ones, an increase both enabled by and contributing to the growth of student... |
2020 |
| Francine J. Lipman , Nicholas A. Mirkay , Palma Joy Strand |
#BLACKTAXPAYERSMATTER: ANTI-RACIST RESTRUCTURING OF U.S. TAX SYSTEMS |
46 Human Rights 10 (2020) |
The world has witnessed the brutal suffocation of George Floyd on a concrete sidewalk in Minneapolis. While this is but one more example of centuries of relentless violence against Black people, many are hoping that this tragic death will be a catalyst for meaningful change. Throughout the world, rallies, marches, and vigils have filled public... |
2020 |