This work is a complete `Plain English` guide to the legal and tax issues facing aircraft owners. It comes with a CD-ROM containing downloadable forms, agreements, and checklists. Here's everything a plane owner needs to make sense of all the confusing legal and tax issues surrounding aircraft ownership. Written by an experienced lawyer-pilot who is also a certified public accountant and MBA professor, `A Legal and Tax Guide for Aircraft Owners` uses layperson's language to provide detailed `how to` solutions and thorough explanations of issues involving: buying and selling aircraft; aircraft recordation and registration; storing and maintaining aircraft; liability and insurance; multiple ownership arrangements; taxes; and, aircraft leasing.Readers will find insightful coverage of issues that directly impact their ownership rights and responsibilities and have an immediate bearing on compliance, expense, efficiency, safety, and profitability. You'll find: IRS and FAA rules simplified and explained; legal tips for leasing your aircraft; advice on how to protect yourself when buying or selling an aircraft; what you should know about your aircraft insurance policy, your hangar lease, and state and local taxes; and much, much more. Packed with flow charts, diagrams, and legal case briefs, and complete with a CD-ROM containing customizable forms, agreements, and checklists, `A Legal and Tax Guide for Aircraft Owners` belongs on the shelf of every pilot, plane owner, and flight department manager.
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In Fiduciary Law, Tamar Frankel examines the structure, principles, themes, and objectives of fiduciary law. Fiduciaries, which include corporate managers, money managers, lawyers, and physicians among others, are entrusted with money or power. Frankel explains how fiduciary law is designed to offer protection from abuse of this method of safekeeping. She deals with fiduciaries in general, and identifies situations in which fiduciary law falls short of offering protection. Frankel analyzes fiduciary debates, and argues that greater preventive measures are required. She offers guidelines for determining the boundaries and substance of fiduciary law, and discusses how failure to enforce fiduciary law can contribute to failing financial and economic systems. Frankel offers ideas and explanations for the courts, regulators, and legislatures, as well as the fiduciaries and entrustors. She argues for strong legal protection against abuse of entrustment as a means of encouraging fiduciary services in society. Fiduciary Law can help lawyers and policy makers designing the future law and the systems that it protects.
“A rich mix of humor, horror, and angst ...better than most novels on the bestseller lists.” (Boston Sunday Globe )
“An engaging insider’s account of life inside the dreaded IRS.” (Library Journal )
“Downright absorbing ...written as well as any novel set in the business world.” (Booklist (starred) )
“Offers fascinating insight into the most feared and loathed agency of government.” (Minneapolis Star Tribune )
“Alternately amusing and alarming ...a revealing yarn about going after tax delinquents.” (Washington Post )
In a capitalist economy, taxes are the most important instrument by which the political system puts into practice a conception of economic and distributive justice. Taxes arouse strong passions, fuelled not only by conflicts of economic self-interest, but by conflicting ideas of fairness. Taking as a guiding principle the conventional nature of private property, Murphy and Nagel show how taxes can only be evaluated as part of the overall system of property rights that they help to create. Justice or injustice in taxation, they argue, can only mean justice or injustice in the system of property rights and entitlements that result from a particular regime. Taking up ethical issues about individual liberty, interpersonal obligation, and both collective and personal responsibility, Murphy and Nagel force us to reconsider how our tax policy shapes our system of property rights.
From the Cayman Islands and the Isle of Man to the Principality of Liechtenstein and the state of Delaware, tax havens offer lower tax rates, less stringent regulations and enforcement, and promises of strict secrecy to individuals and corporations alike. In recent years government regulators, hoping to remedy economic crisis by diverting capital from hidden channels back into taxable view, have undertaken sustained and serious efforts to force tax havens into compliance. In Tax Havens, Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy, and Christian Chavagneux provide an up-to-date evaluation of the role and function of tax havens in the global financial system-their history, inner workings, impact, extent, and enforcement. They make clear that while, individually, tax havens may appear insignificant, together they have a major impact on the global economy. Holding up to $13 trillion of personal wealth-the equivalent of the annual U.S. Gross National Product-and serving as the legal home of two million corporate entities and half of all international lending banks, tax havens also skew the distribution of globalization's costs and benefits to the detriment of developing economies. The first comprehensive account of these entities, this book challenges much of the conventional wisdom about tax havens. The authors reveal that, rather than operating at the margins of the world economy, tax havens are integral to it. More than simple conduits for tax avoidance and evasion, tax havens actually belong to the broad world of finance, to the business of managing the monetary resources of individuals, organizations, and countries. They have become among the most powerful instruments of globalization, one of the principal causes of global financial instability, and one of the large political issues of our times.
Everyone has important paperwork -- but not everyone is prepared to find it. Whether readers need to organize records for themselves or their survivors, Get It Together shows them how. Designed for ease of use by both readers and their survivors, Get It Together helps them track down: instructions for survivors; final arrangements; estate planning documents; employment records; insurance policies; tax records;;retirement accounts; government benefits; real estate records and much more. A CDROM lets them fill out the workbook on their computers so they can simply print their work and put it in a binder.
