Lind, Schwarz, Lathrope and Rosenberg's Fundamentals of Corporate Taxation (5th Edition; University Casebook Series) [Hardcover]

Stephen A. Lind (Author), Stephen Schwarz (Author), Daniel J. Lathrope (Author), Joshua D. Rosenberg (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1587782235 | ISBN-13: 978-1587782237 | Publication Date: June 2002 | Edition: 5th

Lind, Schwartz, Lathrope and Rosenberg’s law school casebook provides detailed information on corporate taxation. The casebook provides the tools for fast, easy, on-point research. Part of the University Casebook Series®, it includes selected cases designed to illustrate the development of a body of law on a particular subject. Text and explanatory materials designed for law study accompany the cases.

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Professor of Law, University of Florida and Hastings College of Law

Product Details

• Hardcover: 750 pages
• Publisher: Foundation Pr; 5th edition (June 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587782235
• ISBN-13: 978-1587782237
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.6 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,398,872 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Save money, buy the 6th instead., May 1, 2009

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This review is from: Fundamentals of Corporate Taxation- Cases and Materials (University Casebook) (Hardcover)

My professor used the latest (7th edition) in class. I got the 6th very cheap, so I used it. I could barely tell the difference. Save yourself some $$$ and buy the 6th edition used instead. They only made superficial changes from the 6th the 7th from what I can tell. The page numbering was off by like 1 page; all the cases were the same and they changed 1 or 2 (out of dozens) of the problems at the end of the chapters slightly. They just cranked out a "new" edition to sell more books.

(Plus you're going to need to buy a study-guide anyway; this text isn't that helpful.)

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Corporate Taxaxtion - Lind, July 7, 2005

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This review is from: Lind, Schwarz, Lathrope and Rosenberg's Fundamentals of Corporate Taxation (5th Edition; University Casebook Series) (Hardcover)

The book is great for case law. However, in order to grasp major concepts, you will need many supplements. There is a case brief book out on the market, which is keyed to the Lind book. Additionally, West publishes an accompanying book that serves as an outline and summarizes general concepts.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Corporate Tax Professors--PLEASE Avoid this Book, December 15, 2011

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This review is from: Fundamentals of Corporate Taxation- Cases and Materials (University Casebook) (Hardcover)

I literally read this book cover-to-cover for my corporate tax class. It is really of questionable quality. It glosses over major issues, assumes readers' knowledge of many areas of tax law (for instance, it does not contain even a brief description of the intricacies of OID, even though it references OID throughout), and it does a mediocre job of explaining even the issues into which it delves in detail. I would have been totally lost if not for my excellent professor, who explained the high-level stuff well (the book fails to parse out the really important information from the more theoretical, leaving readers confused attempting to figure out what is truly relevant). Additionally, this textbook almost reads like a tax history book; easily as much of the book is spent explaining old common law doctrines as the current code. This is probably a function of the authors' laziness and their unwillingness to edit out the material that is no longer relevant. I want to echo the sentiment of a previous poster, who noted that the changes between this 7th Edition and the previous 6th Edition are superficial at best (I used a 6th Edition checked out from the library for the first two weeks of class while I waited for this book to arrive and noted virtually no differences). Astonishingly, the book almost entirely fails to mention the Bush Tax Cuts, which effectively gut many of the provisions detailed in this book (such as the different treatment between capital gains and dividends).

If you are a corporate tax professor thinking about assigning this book as required reading, PLEASE, for the sake of your students, look into what other textbooks are available in the market. This one really fails to deliver.