Foreword: The Past, Present, and Future of the Federal Tax Legislative Process --- George K. Yin and Lawrence A. Zelenak --- 1
The State of America’s Tax Institutions ---- Victor Fleischer --- 7
Legislative Entrenchment and Federal Fiscal Policy --- Michael Doran --- 27
Tax Law and the Eroding Budget Process --- Rebecca M. Kysar --- 61
The Tax Legislative Process: A Byrd’s Eye View ---- Ellen P. Aprill and Daniel J. Hemel ---- 99
Leaving it up to Treasury: Congressional Abdication on Major Policy Issues in the Early Years of the Income Tax --- Lawrence A. Zelenak ---- 137
The “Invisible Government” and Conservative Tax Lobbying 1935–1936 --- Marjorie E. Kornhauser --- 167
“Who Speaks for Tax Equity and Tax Fairness?” The Emergence of the Organized Tax Bar and the Dilemmas of Professional Responsibility --- Joseph J. Thorndike and Ajay K. Mehrotra --- 203
Crafting Structural Tax Legislation in a Highly Polarized Congress --- George K. Yin --- 241