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Tax Analysts is a nonprofit publisher offering the Tax Notes portfolio of products, including weekly magazines featuring commentary, daily online journals featuring news and analysis, and research tools, all focused on tax policy and administration.
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 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 ...
The Columbia Journal of Tax Law is a law journal covering tax law and policy. [1] It publishes three issues each year featuring scholarly articles, shorter works on current policy topics, and student notes. The journal was established in 2010 [2] and is edited by students at Columbia Law School. The current editor-in-chief is Ahmed Farooq. [3]
A poll tax, also called a per capita tax, or capitation tax, is a tax that levies a set amount per individual. It is an example of the concept of fixed tax. One of the earliest taxes mentioned in the Bible of a half-shekel per annum from each adult Jew (Ex. 30:11–16) was a form of the poll tax. Poll taxes are administratively cheap because ...
Tax noncompliance is a range of activities that are unfavorable to a government's tax system. This may include tax avoidance, which is tax reduction by legal means, and tax evasion which is the illegal non-payment of tax liabilities. [1] The use of the term "noncompliance" is used differently by different authors. [2]
Prosecutors said Smirnov was a confidential human source with the FBI and was assigned to a handling agent who was a special agent on an FBI squad that investigated violations of federal criminal law.
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 [8] This tax was repealed and replaced by another income tax in the Revenue Act of 1862.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]