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Tax Notes Research: a free federal tax law library containing the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, IRS regulations, Treasury decisions and other primary sources [5] Worldwide Tax Treaties: a database of more than 12,200 tax treaties with comparison tools
Tax law or revenue law is an area of legal study in which public or sanctioned authorities, such as federal, state and municipal governments (as in the case of the US) use a body of rules and procedures (laws) to assess and collect taxes in a legal context. The rates and merits of the various taxes, imposed by the authorities, are attained via ...
Lee Sheppard is a tax commentator and contributing editor at Tax Analysts' Tax Notes. [1] She studied law at Northwestern University, but following a stint with McDermott Will & Emery in Chicago, Sheppard has not practiced tax law since the 1970s, [2] but instead specializes in financial issues and the taxation of multinational corporations.
Tax rates were 3% on income exceeding $600 and less than $10,000, and 5% on income exceeding $10,000. [8] This tax was repealed and replaced by another income tax in the Revenue Act of 1862. [9] After the war when the need for federal revenues decreased, Congress (in the Revenue Act of 1870) let the tax law expire in 1873. [10]
International Tax Review was launched in London in November 1989 [3] [2] to cater to the tax services industry, publishing academic papers and covering court judgments on tax law. Over the years ITR has interviewed numerous politicians, including European commissioners Margrethe Vestager [ 4 ] and Pierre Moscovici , [ 5 ] as well as top tax ...
Tax protester Sixteenth Amendment arguments are assertions that the imposition of the U.S. federal income tax is illegal because the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which reads "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration ...
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Case history; Prior: Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit: Holding (1) A genuine, good faith belief that one is not violating the Federal tax law based on a misunderstanding caused by the complexity of the tax law is a defense to a charge of "willfulness", even though that belief is irrational or unreasonable; (2) a belief that the Federal income tax is ...