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Race-Based Poll Taxes and 20th-Century Discrimination

Tax Notes Talk

English - October 06, 2023 04:00 - 37 minutes - 26.1 MB - ★★★★ - 79 ratings
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Professor Jeremy Bearer-Friend of the George Washington University Law School discusses poll taxes in the 20th century and how they were used to target taxpayers based on race and ethnicity.

For more, read Bearer-Friend's article, "Race-Based Tax Weapons."

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This episode is sponsored by the University of California Irvine School of Law Graduate Tax Program. For more information, visit law.uci.edu/gradtax.

This episode is sponsored by the University of Cincinnati. For more information, visit online.uc.edu/taxation.

This episode is sponsored by Practising Law Institute. For more information, visit pli.edu/taxstrategies23.

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Credits
Host: David D. Stewart
Executive Producers: Jasper B. Smith, Paige Jones
Showrunner: Jordan Parrish
Audio Engineers: Jordan Parrish, Peyton Rhodes
Guest Relations: Alexis Hart

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