RECEIVERS -LIABILITY FOR CORPORATE FRANCHISE TAXES ACCRUING AFTER APPOINTMENT

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Abstract

General business conditions of the last three years have made the field of receivership law an extremely interesting and important one to that portion of the bar which has been picking up the pieces left by the debacle of 1929. The widespread liquidation and dissolution of great business organizations has been effected in large part through the medium of the receivership. One of the more difficult problems arising in connection with such receiverships has been the liability of the receiver for franchise taxes. Such taxes have been held to be not property levies but excises on the privilege to carry on corporate functions. Were they property taxes, there could be little doubt but that property in the hands of the receiver could not be protected by any magic circle of fire from contribution to government support.

Recommended Citation

RECEIVERS -LIABILITY FOR CORPORATE FRANCHISE TAXES ACCRUING AFTER APPOINTMENT, 30 Mich. L. Rev. 1094 (1932).
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