LexisNexis New Zealand has kindly consented to the classic text, John Prebble The Taxation of Property Transactions (1985) being posted on the SSRN website. Statutory references are to sections as numbered in the Income Tax Act 1976, but apart from re-numbering and reorganisation, the law in the...

This paper reveals a noticeable difference between a high degree of progressivity of incomerelated local property tax relief versus the proportional or regressive incidence of recognition tax relief. Recognition tax relief is tax relief given to specified social sectors which recognizes either...

The federal income tax laws have always included gain from "dealings in property" as an item of gross income, and probably only the payment of wages rivals the sale of property in fundamental importance to taxpayers generally. Nevertheless, the courts and the Internal Revenue Service have yet to...