Using Insurance Law and Policy to Interpret the Tax Code's Loss and Medical Expense Provisions
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2007
Keywords
tax, taxation, insurance, deductions, casualty loss, medical expense
Abstract
Prior scholarship recognized that I.R.C. § 165 (allowing a deduction for casualty losses) and I.R.C. § 165 (authorizing a deduction for medical expenses) are a free partial insurance scheme, providing tax benefits that partially offset the losses or medical expenses. Courts have long wrestled with determining eligibility for these deductions. This Note proposes that courts should look to the well-developed body of insurance case law to interpret eligibility for these deductions. It further proposed that the government, which effectively acts as an insurer via these deductions, could raise additional revenue using subrogation, which traditional insurers have long used to partially recoup payouts.
Publication Citation
26 Yale Law & Policy Review 309 (2007).
Disciplines
Taxation-Federal | Tax Law
Digital Commons Citation
Blair-Stanek, Andrew, "Using Insurance Law and Policy to Interpret the Tax Code's Loss and Medical Expense Provisions" (2007). Faculty Scholarship. 1321.
https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/fac_pubs/1321