Tax Law

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Federal income-tax law affects every person and institution in the United States. In this course, you'll learn the foundational concepts of federal income taxation, including income, exclusions, deductions, rules for property transactions, and timing.

This study aid features an innovative method of content organization. It uses a checklist format to lead students through questions they need to ask to fully evaluate the legal problem they are trying to solve. It also synthesizes the material in a way that most students are unable to do on their own and assembles the different issues, presenting a clear guide to procedural analysis that students can draw upon when writing their exams. Other study aids provide sample problems, but this book offers a systematic approach to problem solving.

Black Letter Outlines are designed to help a law student recognize and understand the basic principles and issues of law covered in a law school course. Black Letter Outlines can be used both as a study aid when preparing for classes and as a review of the subject matter when studying for an examination. Each Black Letter Outline is written by experienced law school professors who are recognized national authorities in their subject area.

This book demystifies tax by showing how its complexity can be boiled down to just six easy-to-understand concepts. The book analyzes all the major cases in the basic income tax course to demonstrate how each illustrates one or more of the six concepts. The six concepts also shed light on real-world business and investment transactions, with examples including loans, leases, annuities, stock dividends and more. If you’re already in practice, the book includes an abundance of examples drawn from the business world. If you’re still in law school, you’ll find that the book’s organization mirrors the layout and contents of most basic income tax casebooks.

The book includes a glossary of tax and business terminology, so that even students without a business background can feel confident in their grasp of terms like stocks, bonds, and options. Finally, law students may want to look at Appendix B, which provides a guide to writing an issue-spotter exam. These exams recur in almost every class, but they differ from the kinds of essay exams you took in college. The appendix offers a short primer on what to do—and what not to do—when you’re asked to spot legal issues.

Completely revised and up to date with all the new tax laws, this third edition of Exam Pro on Federal Income Tax contains 200 multiple-choice questions derived from actual final examination questions. The questions are “challenging” and provide you with a comprehensive landscape of the concepts and topics covered in a typical Federal Income Tax course. The “Answer Keys” contain thorough analyses that explain relevant Federal Income Tax rules in a logical, step-by-step approach to help you skillfully apply the rules to various fact patterns. The questions, and accompanying answers, also serve as a valuable resource for approaching and answering exam essay questions. Exam Pro on Federal Income Tax helps deconstruct even the most complex tax concepts into digestible components.

This full-color eBook of Federal Income Tax Logic Maps, which supports any classroom text, is designed to assist in the understanding of key provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and how those provisions interact and generally flow. Visual aids, including graphic and color cues, offer a step-by-step method to help analyze the tax consequences of many transactions of everyday consequence to taxpayers. Visual references show the interplay among rules and subparts of rules. In some cases, applicable treasury regulations, revenue rulings, and case law are also referenced. The visual format provides a comprehensive overview, allowing students to review the subject quickly prior to final exams.

This highly-acclaimed text explains the conceptual basis of federal income taxation. It is designed to help students quickly pull together the entire subject for end-of-semester review and provide perspective about where a topic fits within the federal income tax scheme. While focusing on the present income tax, the text provides an explanation of the often-discussed consumption tax and contrasts the two taxes in a note at the end of the volume. The new edition reflects developments since the fourteenth edition, including the promulgation of regulations interpreting major provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. It also features new or expanded discussions of several topics, including: possible legislative reconsideration of the realization requirement (in the context of “billionaires’ tax” proposals); the long-term shift from deductions to credits in the design of nonbusiness tax expenditures, and the new and used electric car credits introduced by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

This edition has been completely revised to reflect the 2017 Act and developments through October 2023. The text focuses on the corporation as a taxable entity and tracks the corporate life cycle from incorporation through complete liquidation. It includes discussion on nonliquidating distributions, redemptions, and stock dividends. It also addresses advanced problems in corporate taxation, such as taxable acquisitions, tax-free reorganizations and corporate divisions, and carryover of corporate tax attributes.

This volume can serve either as a course supplement or as a refresher for practicing lawyers. It provides a clear and accessible explanation of the federal income taxation of estates, trusts, and beneficiaries, focusing on key provisions of the Code and regulations as well as judicial decisions and administrative rulings. Numerous examples illustrate practical applications of the relevant rules. Topical coverage includes the decedent’s final income tax return; income in respect of a decedent; classification of estates and trusts; distributable net income; simple and complex trusts; distributions; grantor trusts; charitable trusts; and foreign trusts.

How and when is income taxable? To whom is it taxable? This Nutshell summarizes U.S. federal income tax law, defines income, and identifies the different types of deductions. Explains statutory inclusion and exclusion from gross income, profit-related deductions, mixed deductions, personal deductions, and other allowances. Also inquires into the policy and purposes of, and alternatives to, existing legal rules.

This book provides a concise overview of federal partnership taxation. It covers partnership formation, including contributions of property and admission of service partners, allocation of income and loss, tax accounting, and sharing of recourse and nonrecourse liabilities. Building on this foundation, the book also addresses advanced topics, including transactions between partners and partnerships, sales of partnership interests, distributions of property, optional and mandatory basis adjustments, and planning for retirement or death of a partner. Numerous concrete examples illustrate the tax treatment of specific transactions, allowing students to grasp the principles of partnership taxation in a problem-oriented course. The revised sixth edition reflects major tax legislation enacted in 2017 (the “2017 Act”), including choice of entity issues in light of the new 21% corporate tax rate and the § 199A passthrough deduction.

This outline discusses taxation of partnerships, including current partnership income, contributions of property to partnership, sale of partnership interest, distributions, and liquidations, as well as the taxation of corporations, including formation, corporate distributions, sales of stock and assets, and reorganizations, S corporations. The book has been updated to include discussion of the special taxation of Qualified Business Income and other changes adopted as part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Comprehensive outline on Income Tax law with detailed explantations of relevant law, capsule summary, and exam tips.

This treatise provides expert guidance to law students and practitioners alike on this increasingly complex area of the law. It provides up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of pertinent provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, relevant administrative guidance, and appropriate case law. Above all, it offers a unique blend of the theoretical and practical aspects of federal income taxation. The authors bring to life one of the most challenging areas of the law with their expert analysis. This treatise is a necessity for anyone hoping to gain a better understanding of federal income taxation.

Gain the advantages of office hours with professors on your own schedule! The West Academic Office Hours series is a collection of short audio and video tracks that tackle some of the thorniest questions plaguing law students. The professors answer students’ most frequently asked office hour questions. With clear and easy-to-understand explanations, these professors will help you reach that “lightbulb” moment of comprehension, just as they have with their own students in their own offices. You now have virtual faculty explanations available at the click of a button! The Office Hours series features a variety of notable law faculty explaining these tough topics in new and thoughtful ways.

The perfect companion for students in law school tax courses and practitioners seeking a helpful introduction, this popular reference has been completely updated to reflect recent developments. Like prior editions, it includes analysis of cases and concepts from the leading casebooks on federal income tax, complete with explanations, diagrams and flow charts. The book includes extensive treatment of the time value of money issues.

The new edition of Principles of Tax Policy explains the essential building blocks of the American tax system clearly and concisely, including the changes adopted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and rising inflation in 2022. Chapters focus on the political process, individual and corporate income taxes, Social Security and other payroll taxes, state and local budgeting, international tax planning, and more. Each chapter opens with a brief description of the policy topic, providing a synopsis of the current state of the law, and is followed by a discussion of the arguments made on all sides of the major debates over the topic.

A pleasant stroll through the thickets of the basic law school income tax course. Newman addresses all of the usual suspects, including income, deductions, capital gains, and timing. There are photos of narrow Amsterdam canal houses, an English building with bricked-up windows, and a short-tailed dog, to show how tax laws can change just about everything. Also, there is a photo of an outrageous ABBA costume, presumably deductible. Finally, there is a series of applications of basic tax principles to some of your favorite fairy tales.

The 3rd edition takes into account changes made by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, but assumes that everything which was put on hold by that legislation through 2025 will be fully back in force in 2026.

We spend a fair amount of time in law school talking about the taxation of income. What about taxing other things, like spending, wealth, luxury and sin? What about funding government in other ways, like borrowing money, printing money, building toll bridges, and selling lottery tickets? This Short and Happy Guide considers all of these possibilities. Would taxing spending (sales taxes, value added taxes, or annual consumption taxes) be better than taxing income or wealth? Perhaps we should tax all of them. In fact, we do. This book considers each of these ways of funding government—how they work, and what makes them good or bad.

The Sum & Substance Audio Series allows you to assimilate the essentials of the course at your convenience - listen while working, commuting, exercising or just relaxing. The information and ideas you struggled with previously are now brought to life simply and succinctly. The series provides Quick Reference Indexing, allowing you to quickly locate every topic in the entire recording. Also provided are exam tips to maximize your performance and Lifetime guarantee. These audios are time saving, convenient and effective. Professor Frank J. Doti's Federal Income Tax 7th edition contains a detailed audio presentation of Federal Income Tax law. The series includes coverage of changes effective in 2018 by the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act. Also included as part of the traditional audio series are the following unique additional useful aids: 1. A written outline of the audio series discussion topics, 2. Briefs of the cases typically assigned in a federal income tax course, and 3. Tables and charts to help explain the more complex areas.

Taxes impact every individual and business in the United States and around the world. Countries are constantly changing, modifying, and occasionally reforming their tax systems. Understanding tax policy and implementing changes in the tax law that are consistent with sound tax policy is critically important. This compact guide explains essential concepts in tax policy, including theories of taxation and their implementation, criteria in evaluating a tax system, tax bases, the Haig-Simons definition of income, Samuelson depreciation, the Cary Brown Theorem, capital gains and losses, tax expenditures, the distribution of the tax burden, and issues in corporate and international taxation. The book discusses the tax policy considerations of contemporary law, including the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the most comprehensive U.S. tax system reform in over thirty years.

The Sixth Edition of Tax Procedure and Tax Fraud in a Nutshell is designed to acquaint students with the theoretical and practical aspects of tax practice, from administrative or civil actions involving the Internal Revenue Service to criminal prosecutions brought by the Department of Justice. Specific coverage includes IRS and treasury rulemaking; IRS confidentiality and disclosure; ethical issues of tax practice; civil audits and administrative appeals; assessment issues; the collection process; civil and criminal penalties; statutes of limitations; civil litigation considerations in the various tax forums; civil and criminal IRS investigations; and tax crimes and prosecution.

This book explores the historical contexts of seminal U.S. Supreme court federal income tax cases and the role they continue to play in our current tax law. Each of the chapters sets forth the social, factual, and legal background of the case and discusses various court proceedings and judicial opinions.The Foundation Press Law Stories Series brings landmark cases to life by telling the true, never-before-heard stories behind the cases. Editor Paul Caron and the general editors of each edition discuss the immediate impact of cases and document the continuing importance of the cases in shaping the law.