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38 Vand. L. Rev. 1397 (1985)
Tax Expenditures and Tax Reform

handle is hein.journals/vanlr38 and id is 1411 raw text is: REVIEW ESSAY
Tax Expenditures and Tax
Reform
TAX EXPENDITURES. By Stanley S. Surrey and Paul R. McDaniel.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985. Pp. 303.
Reviewed by Allaire Urban Karzon*
I.  INTRODUCTION ....................................  1397
II. ORIGINAL TAX EXPENDITURE CONCEPT ............. 1397
III. ECONOMIC BACKGROUND FOR DEVELOPMENT OF TAX
EXPENDITURE CONCEPT ............................ 1401
A. Establishing the Norm to Measure Deviations 1401
B. Explaining Code Complexity Through Tax
Expenditures ..............................  1402
IV. INFLUENCE OF TAX EXPENDITURE ANALYSIS IN CUR-
RENT TAX REFORM PROPOSALS ..................... 1403
V. SIGNIFICANCE OF OMISSIONS FROM TAX EXPENDITURE
LIST .............................................. 1406
A.   Tax-Free Receipt of Damages for Nonphysical
Personal Injuries  ..........................  1407
B.   United States Taxation of Foreigners ....... 1408
C.  Tax-Free Receipt of United States Portfolio
Interest by  Foreigners  .....................  1411
VI. CONCLUSION: ELIMINATION OF PEJORATIVE CONNOTA-
TION FOR TAX EXPENDITURES ....................... 1413
1985 Vanderbilt Law Review.
* Associate Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University School of Law. B.A. 1945, Welles-
ley College; J.D. 1947, Yale Law School.

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