Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2023
Abstract
In “Antitrust and the Corporate Tax, 1909–1928,” Reuven Avi-Yonah examines a twentieth-century antitrust measure that lay outside the Sherman Act per se—the corporate tax act of 1909. After the enactment of the Clayton Act and the creation of the FTC in 1914, the corporate tax’s antimonopoly reputation faded somewhat. Between 1919 and 1928 most of its antitrust features were eliminated, and they would not be revived during the New Deal. Nevertheless, Avi-Yonah argues that the corporate tax still retains some potential to contribute to limiting the power of monopolies, especially if the progressive corporate tax rate structure adopted in the 1930s and abolished in 2017 is revived.
Publication Information & Recommended Citation
Avi-Yonah, Reuven S. "Antitrust and the Corporate Tax, 1908-1928." In Antimonopoly and American Democracy, edited by Daniel A. Crane and William J. Novak, 359-383. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197744666.003.0010
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