Confidence Games: Lawyers, Accountants, and the Tax Shelter Industry

by Tanina Rostain and Milton C. Regan Jr.

Book Overview

The rise and fall of a tax shelter industry that enabled some of America's richest citizens to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

For ten boom-powered years at the turn of the twenty-first century, some of America's most prominent law and accounting firms created and marketed products that enabled the very rich--including newly minted dot-com millionaires--to avoid paying their fair share of taxes by claiming benefits not recognized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262027135
• ISBN13: 9780262027137
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher