Virtual Bookshelf: October 2021- Taxes

The American Bar Association Section of Taxation is pleased to announce the release of Careers in Tax Law: Perspectives on the Tax Profession and What It Holds for You. Designed for those considering or beginning a career in tax law, this informative guide presents a series of offerings autobiographies in miniature by a broad cross section of working tax professionals. Each contribution stands as a unique story of paths taken, choices made, and lessons learned. Each adds to a composite portrait of the profession and its possibilities for the next generation of tax lawyers. In essays divided thematically, over 75 tax professionals share their unique perspectives, knowledge, and experiences. Nowhere else will you find such an honest and entertaining portrayal of the tax profession and what it holds for you.

The goal of this book is to expose a number of areas in the tax law which illustrate the discrimination that has become deeply embedded in our tax system over the past 80 years. The special tax benefits received by one group of taxpayers are paid for by those who do not get these benefits, even where the two groups are essentially in the same "income" class. The book demonstrates how the Congress and the IRS are locked into a system which is replete with time-worn dichotomies, while the lobbyists and many tax experts thrive on the complexities of a broken system. The book proposes some innovative solutions to these problems, including a single-rate tax structure for all sources of income, which would eliminate the built-in discrimination against working people, widows, and single persons.

Highly acclaimed as both a supplemental text and a law student self-help aid, Federal Income Taxation focuses on the conceptual aspects of federal income tax to improve student understanding of this complex subject. Designed to help students quickly pull together the entire subject area for end-of-semester review, the textbook provides a sense of perspective about where a topic fits within the federal income tax scheme.

How to manage tax research -- Primary source -- Secondary sources -- Legislative history -- IRS practice and procedure -- Tax specialty areas -- Researching federal income tax online.

The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations has, for decades, been the definitive single-volume source of legal information for nonprofit lawyers and managers alike. Author Bruce R. Hopkins is widely recognized as the leading authority on the subject; in this thoroughly revised Twelfth Edition, he provides all the updates you need to stay current on the latest changes to tax code, regulatory, and case law developments. Annual supplements available with the book will ensure that you don't miss any important updates. Online Access available.

Drawing on extensive Congressional records from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book reveals how the fundamental ideas underlying our present system of income taxation evolved during 1893-1895, leading to an enactment of a broad-based income tax in 1894. That initial law was intended to create a fair tax system based on the principle of "ability-to-pay." With an eye for detail, Joseph explores ways in which this system would serve as a model for future income tax schemes. He explains how global and domestic changes rendered tariff taxation passe. And he demonstrates how significant aspects of that early law - despite its swift demise in the case of Pollock v. The Farmers' Loan & Trust Company - inspire our current federal taxation system." "Joseph's text makes this subject accessible to both lay person and tax scholar. Its descriptions of corporate taxation, rarely if ever divulged before, are highly relevant today.

In The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Income Tax Law, Edward McCaffery presents an accessible introduction to the major topics in the field of federal income taxation, such as income, deductions, and recognition of gains and losses. After discussing central rules and doctrines individually, Edward McCaffery offers a very sophisticated yet clear explanation of the interplay among them, carefully describing how they work together to carry out the policy goals of the U.S. tax system. Professor McCaffery describes, for example, how the current income tax in the United States has increasingly become a wage tax that favors those with capital rather than those whose money comes from labor. In explaining the consequences of tax policy on individuals, he also considers important possible alternatives for income taxation in the U.S. The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Income Tax Law sets forth the 'who,' 'what,' 'when,' and 'why' of income tax law and describes the essential concepts of the field in a clear and concise manner that helps students and non-experts increase their understanding of the policies behind modern tax law and the ways in which these policies affect different types of individuals.

The introduction of self-assessment for income tax collection in the late 1990s marked a striking moment of cultural convergence between the UK and the US. This book analyses the socio-political factors leading to and resulting from this fundamental change in the relationship between taxpayers and the Inland Revenue, using perspectives in comparative law and the new outlooks of modern tax and cultural theory. It will be of interest to those studying theories of compliance, cultural legal studies, and law and society.

This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to explore the ways how tax policy can be used to solve environmental problems throughout the world, using a multi-jurisdictional and multidisciplinary approach. Environmental taxation involves using taxes to impose a cost on environmentally harmful activities or tax subsidies to provide preferred tax treatment to more sustainable alternatives to those harmful activities. This book provides a detailed analysis of environmental taxation, with examples from around the world. It explores the taxation and subsidization of both fossil fuels and renewable energy. It analyses the past, present, and future potential of environmental taxation. The book is divided into three parts: (1) fossil energy; (2) environmental taxation around the world; and (3) special issues.

Exploration by ten leading tax scholars of the historical contexts of ten U.S. Supreme Court federal income tax cases and the role they continue to play in current tax law: Glenshaw Glass; Macomber; Kirby Lumber; Davis; Welch; INDOPCO; Crane; Schlude; Earl; Knetsch.