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   Basic Income Tax 2013
William Kratzke Professor of Law CALI eLangdell Press 2013 About the AuthorProfessor William Kratzke is a Cecil C. Humphreys Professor of Law at the University of Memphis. He received his B.A. in Political Science and the Far Eastern & Russian Institute from the University of Washington in 1971. This naturally caused him to be interested in attending law school. He received his J.D. from Valparaiso University in 1974 and was a member of the Valparaiso University Law Review’s editorial board. He received his LL.M. from Georgetown University in 1977. Professor William Kratzke teaches tax law courses at the University of Memphis. He has been a faculty member there since 1979. He has taught courses across the curriculum. In addition to tax courses, he has taught trademarks, torts, civil procedure, world trade law, economic analysis, and other courses. He visited Santa Clara University and the University of Mississippi. He received Fulbright Teaching Awards in 1997 (Moldova) and 2001-2002 (Russia). Professor Kratzke has written in the areas of tax law, trademark law, tort law, and antitrust law.Notices This is the first version of the first edition of this casebook, updated May 29, 2013. Visit http://elangdell.cali.org/ for the latest version and for revision history. 
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Find available and upcoming eLangdell titles at elangdell.cali.org. Show support for CALI by following us on Facebook and Twitter, and by telling your friends and colleagues where you received your free book. PrefaceThis book is a basic income tax text. I intend this text to be suitable for a three-hour course for a class comprised of law students with widely different backgrounds. Certain principles permeate all of tax law. I have found that certain axioms or principles will carry us a long way. For example, income is taxed once – or treated as if it has been taxed. Once it has been taxed, its investment gives the taxpayer basis – which I define not as cost but as money that will not be subject to tax again. Etc. The text returns to these principles throughout. I usually put these matters in text boxes. At a minimum, I want students who have completed basic income tax to know these principles and to be able to apply them, i.e., to develop some “tax intuition.” This intuition will serve well the student who wishes to take more tax classes. I tried to identify what I want students to know before enrolling in corporate tax or partnership tax – and to make certain that I covered these principles in the basic course. Such intuition will also serve well the student for whom the basic course is a “one and done” experience. Like it or not, tax law affects most legal topics, and such intuition should at least give students working in other areas of the law an idea of when it is time to ask questions concerning lurking tax issues. In some areas, I have relied heavily on the CALI drills by Professor James Edward Maule (Villanova University). These drills both review and, in some instances, teach a little substance. Each zeroes in on a specific topic and should take a student about twenty minutes to complete if she has adequately prepared to do the drill. Of course, students can work through such drills at their own speed. I have tried to make this text very readable – so that students can easily understand. I have aimed at law students who “know” they have no interest in income tax – but who may find that they in fact have a considerable interest in tax law. With my political science background, I was such a student. I am proof that one does not have to have an accounting background to find income tax law both important and interesting. Additionally, Magdalene Smith and Jay Clifton III were two such students; they assisted me greatly in making this text as accessible as possible to all law students. I thank them now for their work. WPK
Memphis, Tennessee, July 2013 Table of Contents About the Author 4 About CALI eLangdell Press 6 Preface 7 Chapter 1: The Government Raises Money: Introduction to Some Basic Concepts of Taxes and Taxing Income 9 I. Introduction to Some Basic Concepts 9 II. Taxing Income 13 III. Some Definitions 14 V. Layout of the Code 19 VI. Illustration of the Tax Formula: 20 VII. Sources of Tax Law and the Role of Courts 23 VIII. Some Income Tax Policy and Some Income Tax Principles 24 IX. What Is Income? 25 Wrap-up Questions for Chapter 1 33 Chapter 2: What Is Gross Income: Section 61 and the Sixteenth Amendment 33 I. The Constitutional and Statutory Definitions of “Gross Income” 34 II. The Constitutional and Statutory Definitions of “Gross Income:” Accessions to Wealth 60 III. The Constitutional and Statutory Definitions of “Gross Income:” Realization 92 IV. The Constitutional and Statutory Definitions of “Gross Income:”
Wrap-up Questions for Chapter 2: 108 Chapter 3: Exclusions from Gross Income 109 I. The Society and Government that We Want 113 II. Social Benefits 137 III. Employment-Based Exclusions from Gross Income 149 Wrap-up Questions for Chapter 3: 169
II. Cancellation of Indebtedness 170 III. Is It a Loan? Is There an Accession to Wealth? 176 IV. Section 108(a)'s Other Provisions 203 V. Transactions Involving Property Subject to a Loan 207 VI. Transactions Treated as Loans 242 Wrap-up Questions for Chapter 4 245
I. Compensation for Services 293 II. Income Splitting and the Joint Return 300 III. Income Derived from Property 304 IV. Interest Free Loans and Unstated Interest 316 Wrap-Up Questions for Chapter 5 317 Chapter 6: Deductions: Business Expenses 319 I. Expense or Capital 321 II. Deductibility Under §§ 162 or 212 363 III. Depreciation, Amortization, and Cost Recovery 429 Wrap-Up Questions for Chapter 6 443
I. “Tax Expenditures” 466 II. Denial of Discretion in Choosing How or What to Consume 479 III. Creating a More Efficient and Productive Economy 487 Wrap-Up Questions for Chapter 7 491
I. Introduction 492 II. Before Marriage 493 III. During Marriage 497 IV. After Marriage: Tax Consequences of Divorce 503 Wrap-Up Questions for Chapter 8 520 Chapter 9: Timing of Income and Deductions: Annual Accounting and Accounting Principles 521 I. Annual Accounting 521 II. Deferral Mechanisms 532 III. Basic Accounting Rules 538 Wrap-Up Questions for Chapter 9: 556
I. Capital Gain 559 II. Sections 1245 and 1250: Depreciation Recapture 567 III. Section 1231: Some Limited Mismatching 570 IV. Some Basis Transfer Transactions: §§ 1031, 1033 572 V. More Matching 573 Wrap-Up Questions for Chapter 10 577
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