Professor
Research Focus: Corporation Taxation, Partnership Taxation, Tax Policy
Links: Curriculum Vitae, SSRN
615 O'Brian Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
716-645-2749
slazar@buffalo.edu
MASTERING PARTNERSHIP TAXATION (Carolina Academic Press, 2d ed. : 2023)
MASTERING PARTNERSHIP TAXATION (Carolina Academic Press: 2013)
Business Lobbying as an Informational Public Good: A Proposal to Tie Tax Deductions for Lobbying Expenses to Substantive Lobbying Disclosure (with Michael Halberstam) ELECTION LAW JOURNAL VOL. 13(1) :91-116 (2014)
Schooling Congress: The Current Landscape of the Tax Treatment of Higher Education Expenses and a Framework for Reform, MICHIGAN STATE LAW REVIEW vol. 2010 :1047 (2010)
The Subsidization of Higher Education Expenses: Business Deductions and Tax Incentives (Part 2 - Tax Incentives), MERTENS LAW OF FEDERAL INCOME TAXATION: DEVELOPMENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS :16-23 (Feb. 2010)
The Subsidization of Higher Education Expenses: Business Deductions and Tax Incentives (Part 1 - Ordinary and Necessary Business Expenses), MERTENS LAW OF FEDERAL INCOME TAXATION: DEVELOPMENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS : 11-29 (Jan. 2010)
Madoff Made Off with Their Money and the IRS Responds to Investors, MERTENS LAW OF FEDERAL INCOME TAXATION: DEVELOPMENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS : 1-11 (Apr. 2009)
To Tax or Not to Tax, That is the Question: The State of Section 104(a)(2) Following Murphy v. Internal Revenue Service, LACHES vol. 4: 9 (2007)
Point & Counterpoint: Should the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction Be Reduced? (with Deborah Geier) NEWS QUARTERLY vol. 25(2): 10 (2006)
SSRN
Cars, Charity, Oprah, Depreciation and the Interest-Free Loan: Recent Developments of Relevance in the Motor City, LACHES : 21 (April 2005)
Lessinger, Peracchi, and the Emperor's New Clothes: Covering a Section 357(c) Deficit with Invisible (or Nonexistent) Property, TAX LAW vol. 58 p. 41 (Fall 2004)
SSRN
The Definition of Voting Stock and the Computation of Voting Power Under Sections 368(c) and 1504(a): Recent Developments and Tax Lore, VIRGINIA TAX REVIEW vol. 17 p. 103 (Summer 1997)
IRS Overhauls Spin-off Ruling Guidelines, TAXES (with Stuart M. Finkelstein) vol. 74: 366 (June 1996)
Corporate Liquidations in White on NEW YORK BUSINESS ENTITIES vol. 1 (LexisNexis: 2013)
The S Corporation Alternative in White on NEW YORK BUSINESS ENTITIES vol. 1 (LexisNexis: 2013)
Corporate Reorganizations, MERTENS LAW OF FEDERAL INCOME TAXATION (Thompson West: 2009) vol. 11
Capital Gains and Losses, MERTENS LAW OF FEDERAL INCOME TAXATION (Thompson West: 2007) vol. 4