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The Tax Lawyer, the nations premier, peer-reviewed tax law journal, is published quarterly as a service to its members by the American Bar Association Section of Taxation. |
The Tax Lawyer endeavors to provide scholarly articles by notable tax attorneys and professors, key reports by Section of Taxation committees and task forces, and student notes and comments on timely topics that the editorial board believes to be of professional interest to members of the Section and the tax profession.
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Latest Issue - Vol. 62 No. 4, Summer 2009 (State and Local Tax Edition)
MeadWestco Corp. v. Illinois Department of Revenue: A States-Based Approach to Establishing Consistency in the Apportionment of Liquidation Income by Colin Douglas Campbell, Jr.
A Normative Evaluation of Consumption Tax Design: The Treatment of Sales of Goods Under VAT in the European Union and Sales Tax in the United States by Dr. Robert F. van Brederode
State Film Tax Incentives and the Related Potpourri of Federal Income Tax and Tax Accounting Considerations by
Michael H. Salama
Close but No Cigar: Is a Use Tax Valid in a Gross Receipts Tax State Under the Supreme Court's Compensating Tax Doctrine? by Reid S. Okimoto
COMING SOON - Vol. 63 No. 1, Fall 2009
"The Frame Game: How Defining the "Transaction" Decides the Case" by David P. Hariton
"Partnership Exit Strategies and the Failure of the Substantiality Test" by Thomas W. Henning
"Entity Identity: The Taxation of Quasi-Separate Enterprises" by Stephen B. Land
"Loyalty Divided: Duties to Clients and Duties to Others—the Civil Liability of Tax Attorneys Made Possible by Acceptance of a Duty to the System" by David J. Moraine
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