Who Pays the Income Taxes Generated by a Bankruptcy Settlement: The Trustee or the Debtors?

Date

1992

Citation

Paul B. Stephan, Who Pays the Income Taxes Generated by a Bankruptcy Settlement: The Trustee or the Debtors?, 1991-1992 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 188–190 (1992).

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

Paul B. Stephan

Public Policy and Regulation

John W. Glynn Jr. Law & Business Program

Center for International & Comparative Law

Virginia Center for Tax Law

National Security Law Center

Center for Public Law and Political Economy

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