One of the most basic distortions created by the double taxation of corporate income is the disincentive to incorporate. In this paper, we investigate the extent to which the aggregate allocation of assets and taxable income in the U.S. between corporate vs. noncorporate forms of organization...

Legal records indicate that conflicts of interest -- that is, situations in which officers and directors were in a position to benefit themselves at the expense of minority shareholders -- were endemic to corporations in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century U.S. Yet investors...

Das Einkommensteuergesetz bestimmt schlicht, dass der Mitunternehmer seinen Gewinnanteil zu versteuern hat. Dessen Höhe richtet sich im Ausgangspunkt nach der zivilrechtlichen Gewinnverteilungsabrede, welche überwiegend privatautonom gestaltet wird. Demgegenüber macht die...

Income from corporate and noncorporate firms is treated very differently under the tax law. To what degree do firms change their form of organization in response? Since the relative tax treatment depends on the tax bracket of the investor, the answer will vary by the bracket of the owners. To...