Published: 2021-11-03

Executive Pay Clawbacks and Their Taxation

David I. Walker
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Executive pay clawback provisions require executives to repay previously received compensation under certain circumstances, such as a downward...

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Treaty Override

The False Conflict Between Whitney and Cook

H. David Rosenbloom, Fadi Shaheen
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This Article explores the conditions under which a U.S. statute overrides an earlier self-executing treaty. Focusing on the often blurred...

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The Rise of Law and the Fall of Circular 230

Tax Lawyer Professional Standards, 1985–2015

Michael Hatfield
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This Article focuses on the two issues that dominated discussions of professional responsibility standards for tax lawyers in the 1985–2015...

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Full Taxation

The Single Tax Emperor’s New Clothes

Leopoldo Parada
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It has recently been argued in the international tax literature that the OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting project (BEPS) reflects and...

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Forking Belief in Cryptocurrency

A Tax Non-Realization Event

David G. Chamberlain
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When the community of believers in a cryptocurrency splits into two, the currency may experience a “hard fork” and split into two independent...

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Teaching Algorithms and Algorithms for Teaching

Sarah L. Lawsky
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This Article focuses on what it calls the “algorithm method,” a common method used to teach tax classes that presents students with unambiguous...

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Designing Nonrecognition Rules Under the Internal Revenue Code

Fred B. Brown
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Nonrecognition rules are a prominent feature of the income tax laws and are a source of considerable complexity and tax planning. Included among...

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Designing Aviation Taxes Within the EU

Chartering Ongoing Challenges and Proposing Future Solutions

Yvette Lind
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This Article focuses on environmental taxes, specifically aviation taxes, and the challenges and limitations EU law imposes on individual EU...

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Regulation and Dishonest Behavior

How Controlling Regulatory Mechanisms Prompt Dishonesty in Tax Consulting

Ilanit Gavious, Yaron Lahav, Hagit Weihs
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We study experimentally how the conflict of interest faced by tax consultants—between telling the truth and pleasing their clients—affects their...

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Tax and Cross-Collateralized Nonrecourse Liability

Douglas A. Kahn, Jeffrey H. Kahn
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This Article explores the tax treatment of cross-collateral nonrecourse debt. When using the term cross-collateral debt, we are referring to...

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