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TAX AND TIME: ON THE USE AND MISUSE OF LEGAL IMAGINATION

Infanti, Anthony C. (2022) TAX AND TIME: ON THE USE AND MISUSE OF LEGAL IMAGINATION. In: TAX AND TIME: ON THE USE AND MISUSE OF LEGAL IMAGINATION. New York University Press, New York. ISBN Hardcover: 9781479800346, Ebook: 9781479800391

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Abstract

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 TAX AND TIME 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, TAX AND TIME 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. The introduction to the work, available here, expounds on this further.


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Item Type: Book Section
Status: Published
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Infanti, Anthony C.Infanti@pitt.eduinfanti0000-0002-4278-6887
Date: January 2022
Date Type: Publication
Publisher: New York University Press
Place of Publication: New York
Schools and Programs: School of Law > Law
School of Law > Law > Faculty Publications
Refereed: Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords: Tax Law, Time, Imagination, Justice, Discrimination, Race, Sexual Orientation, Socioeconomic Class
ISBN: Hardcover: 9781479800346, Ebook: 9781479800391
Title of Book: TAX AND TIME: ON THE USE AND MISUSE OF LEGAL IMAGINATION
Official URL: https://nyupress.org/9781479800346/tax-and-time/
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Date Deposited: 12 Jan 2022 23:00
Last Modified: 12 Jan 2022 23:00
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/42183

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