Spring 2025
Professor(s):
Bret Wells (FACULTY)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Taxation
Time: 9:00a-10:30a MW Location: 310
Course Outline: The following information is provided with respect to the Corporate Taxation course. Objective: This course will provide comprehensive treatment of the federal income tax law applicable to corporations and their shareholders. Topics to be covered include: a) The formation of corporations and transfers of assets to controlled corporations; b) The capital structure of a corporation; c) Distributions from corporations (e.g., dividends, redemptions & liquidations); d) Special types of corporations (e.g., S corporations); e) Corporate reorganizations, mergers, restructurings, etc., and f) Affiliated corporations.The objective is to consider both the technical rules and the underlying policy objectives of the corporate income tax rules, with particular emphasis on current transactions and tax planning.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
Prerequisites: Yes Prerequisite: Federal Income Taxation
First Day Assignments:
Final Exam Schedule: 5/5/2025 9-1pm
This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Available
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: TWO (2) REQUIRED: MARTIN MCMAHON, DANIEL SIMMONS,CHARLENE LUKE, AND BRET WELLS, FEDERAL INCOME TAXATION OFCORPORATIONS (Foundation Press 6th ed. 2024) ISBN: 9798887866673; Wolters Kluwer / CCH Publications, “Federal Income Tax — Code & Regulations, Selected Sections,” 2024-2025 Edition (ISBN: 9780808060260).
