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Tax and time on the use and misuse of legal imagination

Title
Tax and time [electronic resource] : on the use and misuse of legal imagination / Anthony C. Infanti.
Author
Infanti, Anthony C., 1968-
Publication
New York : NYU Press, [2022]

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Description
1 online resource (xiii, 253 pages) : illustrations.
Summary
"In daily life and in tax law, time is taken for granted as something that is ever present but beyond our control. Time moves endlessly and relentlessly forward, constantly slipping from our grasp. But what if life were more like science fiction? What if we could, at will, move through time to alter its course? Or what if we could harness time by turning it into an exchangeable commodity, truly using time as money? In fact, there is no need to open a novel or watch a movie to experience time travel or to see time used as a medium of exchange. As Tax and Time demonstrates through accessible explanation and analysis of examples drawn from the United States and other countries, we need look no further than our tax laws to see time manipulated in these-and many other-ways. But this book does more than just complicate and overturn prevailing views of how time operates in and through tax law. In asserting that time in tax law is the product of pure imagination, this book calls into question the world beyond time that we have created for ourselves. Has the tax imagination been used to work toward a more just world or merely to entrench and exacerbate existing injustices? Finding that the tax imagination is too often used to perpetrate or perpetuate injustice, Tax and Time calls for a systematic reexamination and reworking of the relationship between time and tax law with the aim of using the power of the tax imagination as a tool for moving society toward a better and more just future"--
Uniform Title
Tax and time (Online)
Alternative Title
Tax and time (Online)
Subject
  • Time (Law) > United States
  • Taxation > Law and legislation > United States
  • Tax administration and procedure > United States
  • Time (Law)
  • Taxation > Law and legislation
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (193-239) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Time travel -- Time travel avoided (or, justice denied) -- Time as money -- Bartering with time -- Fearing the power of tax time.
LCCN
2021014420
OCLC
ssj0002579193
Author
Infanti, Anthony C., 1968-
Title
Tax and time [electronic resource] : on the use and misuse of legal imagination / Anthony C. Infanti.
Imprint
New York : NYU Press, [2022]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (193-239) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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