Product Description: A concise, tightly-edited casebook that focuses on core principles and policies so students can learn the major patterns and themes of corporate taxation. Features: Focuses student attention on core principles and policies to enable students to learn the major patterns and themes of corporate tax Encourages students to learn the law from the basic source material --the Code and regulations--as supplemented by concise explanations when needed Many problems, questions, and examples help lead students through the challenging material An organizational structure that bridges concepts learned in the introductory income tax course and those presented in advanced tax classes...read more

Product Description: This volume presents a new approach to today’s tax controversies, reflecting that debates about taxation often turn on the differing worldviews of the debate participants. For instance, a central tension in academic tax literature - which is filtering into everyday discussions of tax law - exists between 'mainstream' and 'critical' tax theorists...read more

Product Description: The seventh edition of this popular student supplement retains the cradle-to-grave ordering of prior editions and is updated to reflect recent changes in the law. It features an expanded discussion of S corporations and consolidated groups; use of disregarded entities; liberalization of shareholder debt rules; and basis recovery in redemptions and reorganizations...read more

Product Description: Corporate tax reform is in the air. Competitive pressures from globalization, as well as skyrocketing budget deficits, are forcing lawmakers to rethink how America’s largest businesses are taxed. Some want to close “loopholes...read more

Product Description: Strategies for Corporate Tax Planning provides an authoritative, insider's perspective on best practices for helping corporate clients construct effective tax plans. Featuring partners from some of the nation's leading law firms, this book guides the reader through evaluating proposed transactions in order to balance a client's business goals and tax plan...read more

Corporate tax laws have changed radically—most importantly due to the Tax Reform Act of 1986. This treatise is aimed at generalists who need a comprehensive overview of corporate tax doctrine and tax laws, specialists who need a way to synthesize the relevant authorities on a particular question, and students who want a discursive text to read along with their casebook. Discusses the crucial issues of corporate taxation. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the field, enhance law student performance on exams, and also provides a useful guide for attorneys practicing in this area.

This edition has been completely revised to reflect developments in the Code, Regulations, and case law through August 2007. The text focuses on the corporation as a taxable entity and tracks the corporate life cycle from incorporation through complete liquidation. Includes discussion on nonliquidating distributions, redemptions, and stock dividends. Also addresses advanced problems in corporate taxation, such as taxable acquisitions, tax-free reorganizations and corporate divisions, and carryover of corporate tax attributes.

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