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TAX PRACTITIONERS AREN'T NUTS; WE'RE JUST TOO CLEAR TO UNDERSTAND

November 30, 2004

From a lecture titled "How Tax Thinks" (as repeated in the TaxProf Blog)

   Tax thinking boils a transaction down not to labels but 
   to who gets what why, and it forces you to examine 
   where and how it says that. The clarity of former tax 
   lawyers like Robert H. Jackson, Harry Blackmun, and 
   Sumner Redstone shows that -- far from being a 
   bunch of crazies speaking in tongues -- tax law 
   represents just the opposite.

Blinding clarity - that's the ticket!

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