President Trump’s personal attorney, William Consovoy, sent a letter to the Treasury Department’s general counsel on Friday arguing that House Ways…
Discussion Draft 12/13/19
The AALS Section on Scholarship, Advisory Committee on Law Journal Reform
Introduction
On what basis can the Treasury Department decline to turn over the President’s tax records, now that the House Ways & Means Committee has requested them? Daniel argues here, along the lines of earlier work by George Yin and Andy Grewal…
Imagine this: A multimillionaire private equity investor in New York transfers interests in one of his private equity funds to a trust and appoints as his trustee an attorney who lives in Connecticut. The beneficiaries of the trust are his…
Or State Tax Administrators in an Age of Statutes
[UPDATE: For those looking for a further discussion of some of the legal issues raised below, please see…
Two leading Democratic primary candidates — Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders — have proposed wealth tax reforms. These candidates…
Wealth taxes are popular in some circles these days. Senator Elizabeth Warren has a new wealth tax proposal out, as do a couple of think tanks. I thought it would be interesting to work through how a wealth tax should approach entities that historically have…
Robert Mueller’s report reportedly “did not exonerate” the President, but AG William Barr did. Working with Rod Rosenstein, Barr concluded that the President should not be charged with obstruction of justice. Besides the curious inclusion of…
