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 Basic Income Tax
Second EditionWilliam Kratzke Professor of Law The University of Memphis 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. This is the first version of the Second Edition of this casebook, updated December 23, 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 First Edition Table of Contents
Second Edition 1 About the Author 3 About CALI eLangdell Press 6 Preface 7 Chapter 1: The Government Raises Money: Introduction to Some Basic Concepts of Taxes and Taxing Income 10 I. Introduction to Some Basic Concepts 10 II. Taxing Income 14 III. Some Definitions 22 IV. Not All Income Is Taxed Alike 27 V. Layout of the Code 28 VI. Illustration of the Tax Formula: 28 VII. Sources of Tax Law and the Role of Courts 32 VIII. Some Income Tax Policy and Some Income Tax Principles 34 IX. What Is Income? 35 Wrap-up Questions for Chapter 1 44
I. The Constitutional and Statutory Definitions of “Gross Income” 45 II. The Constitutional and Statutory Definitions of “Gross Income:” Accessions to Wealth 76 III. The Constitutional and Statutory Definitions of “Gross Income:” Realization 113 IV. The Constitutional and Statutory Definitions of “Gross Income:” Dominion and Control 125 Wrap-up Questions for Chapter 2: 131 Chapter 3: Exclusions from Gross Income 131 I. The Society and Government that We Want 132 II. Social Benefits 155 III. Employment-Based Exclusions from Gross Income 167 Wrap-up Questions for Chapter 3: 187
II. Cancellation of Indebtedness 266 III. Is It a Loan? Is There an Accession to Wealth? 271 IV. Section 108(a)'s Other Provisions 292 V. Transactions Involving Property Subject to a Loan 294 VI. Transactions Treated as Loans 319 Wrap-up Questions for Chapter 4 319
I. Compensation for Services 319 II. Income Splitting and the Joint Return 319 III. Income Derived from Property 319 IV. Interest Free Loans and Unstated Interest 319 Wrap-Up Questions for Chapter 5 319 Chapter 6: Deductions: Business Expenses 320 I. Expense or Capital 322 II. Deductibility Under §§ 162 or 212 374 III. Depreciation, Amortization, and Cost Recovery 437 Wrap-Up Questions for Chapter 6 450
I. “Tax Expenditures” 478 II. Denial of Discretion in Choosing How or What to Consume 490 III. Creating a More Efficient and Productive Economy 499 Wrap-Up Questions for Chapter 7 502
I. Introduction 504 II. Before Marriage 505 III. During Marriage 509 IV. After Marriage: Tax Consequences of Divorce 515 Wrap-Up Questions for Chapter 8 532 Chapter 9: Timing of Income and Deductions: Annual Accounting and Accounting Principles 532 II. Deferral Mechanisms 543 III. Basic Accounting Rules 547 Wrap-Up Questions for Chapter 9: 565 Chapter 10: Character of Income and Computation of Tax 566 I. Capital Gain 567 II. Sections 1245 and 1250: Depreciation Recapture 575 III. Section 1231: Some Limited Mismatching 578 IV. Some Basis Transfer Transactions: §§ 1031, 1033 580 V. More Matching 581 Wrap-Up Questions for Chapter 10 585
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