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Jacob Birnbaum Authors Article For the Journal of Taxation of Investments On Tax Patents


Throughout U.S. history, the patent system has served as an unrelenting champion of public disclosure has been the best disinfectant of wrongdoings in taxation and related fields. Yet, until recently, the field of taxation and the patent system rarely overlapped. In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Bilski v. Kappos, effectively sanctioned the extension of the patent system into the field of taxation by ruling that patents can be acquired on certain processes or business methods in extraordinarily limited circumstances- including, potentially, on processes or business methods to enable taxpayers to structure their affairs to lower their taxes (i.e., tax patents). However, many tax practitioners, rather than embracing the benefits of the patent system-including it incentivization of greater public disclosure of tax ideas and inventions-have been lobbying Congress to keep the patent system out of tax practice. Thier reasoning is largely based on fundamental misconceptions about what tax patents are and what they can cover. This article addresses theses misconceptions in like of Bilski, examines the patent system's burden/benefit tradeoff in the fiedl of taxation, and provides abstract information about 20 recently issued tax patents.

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