After The Low Income Housing Tax Credits Are Done, Investors Want More
By the end of the Compliance Period, the project owner will have collected all of the Tax Credits, and other tax benefits, and is clear of any risk of recapture, thereby providing the investor limited partner or member with full realization of the economic benefits it bargained for and expected when negotiating admission to the project owner.
New Class Action Suit Against Conservation Easement Promoters
The key is to have one or more principal actor defendants who have deep pockets and, at the end of the day, will be concerned that there is some litigation risk that the jury may put the actions on a continuum and decide the case relatively. Sure the taxpayer investors were greedy and should have smelled a rat, but we (the jury) are still going to punish the rat who is the worse actor.
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.