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Alstott explores the interplay between family values and the estate tax
Professor Anne Alstott, giving the Webster Lecture on Wealth Transfers at the University of Iowa College of Law, spoke of the clash between family values and the estate tax.
The politically controversial estate tax is set to expire in 2010 but Congress is very likely to restructure it in the next year. Opponents claim the tax undermines the family, but in her lecture, Alstott took the contrarian position, saying that family values, properly understood, can co-exist peacefully with the estate tax in some form.
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From Professor Louis Kaplow ’81, an integrated theory of taxation and public economics
In a new book, Professor Louis Kaplow '81 "steps back and considers the relationships among the parts." The book -- “The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics” (Princeton 2008) -- stands to secure him a place in the firmament of public economists and scholars in public finance.
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Anne Alstott, expert on tax law and social welfare, will join HLS faculty
Anne Alstott, an expert on federal income taxation, corporate taxation and tax policy as well as on social welfare policy, family policy, and feminism and economic justice, will join the Harvard Law School faculty as a tenured professor, Dean Elena Kagan ’86 announced today.
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Wolfman challenges the patenting of 'tax strategies' in influential article
Harvard Law School professor emeritus Bernard Wolfman, a leading tax law expert, has written a strong critique of an emerging trend: the patenting of specific tax strategies.
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