Confidence games : lawyers, accountants, and the tax shelter industry /

The rise and fall of a tax shelter industry that enabled some of America's richest citizens to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rostain, Tanina
Other Authors: Regan, Milton C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Tax shelters > United States > History.
Tax shelters > Law and legislation > United States > History.
Corporations > Taxation > United States > History.
Taxation > Moral and ethical aspects > United States > History.
Abris fiscaux > États-Unis > Histoire.
Sociétés > Impôts > États-Unis > Histoire.
Impôt > Aspect moral > États-Unis > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Public Finance.
LAW > Taxation.
Corporations > Taxation
Tax shelters
Tax shelters > Law and legislation
Taxation > Moral and ethical aspects
United States
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Public Policy & Law
ECONOMICS/Finance
ECONOMICS/Public Economics
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments and note on sources
  • Introduction
  • The rise of the tax shelter market
  • The IRS under siege
  • Why do shelters matter
  • Gimme shelter
  • Accounting firms
  • The skunkworks
  • Watson's choice
  • Accounting for fraud
  • Dances with wolves
  • Law firms
  • The Texas juggernaut
  • Lowering the bar
  • The reckoning
  • Turning the tide
  • The government closes in
  • Endgame: KPMG and Jenkens
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index.

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