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    Made-in-China? Not Anymore: The Tariff Crackdown on China’s De Minimis Loophole

    March 7, 2025By Leyda Mujica

    Online websites such as Shein, Temu, Aliexpress, and TikTok Shop provide cheap prices for a wide range of items, making their marketplaces irresistible to many consumers. “China has [already] been ‘the world’s factory’ for decades, with made-in-China goods reaching global consumers” through platforms such as Amazon and Alibaba.[i] China expanded its manufacturing production while simultaneously […]

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    Breaking Boundaries: Mandatory Repatriation Tax’s Bold Move in Redefining Income

    February 26, 2024By Samuel Bazylenko

        Taxation has been an ongoing storm of debate in the United States for centuries. Under the Sixteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, Congress holds an enumerated power to “lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States.”[i] This definition of income has been reinforced by the […]

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    “I’m Sorry for Your Loss: The Unified Credit Against Estate Tax’s Future After the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act”

    October 16, 2023By Samuel Bazylenko

      In this life, there are two guarantees: death and taxes. Yet, even in death, one does not escape the imposition of tax.[i]  Since 1916, Congress imposed an excise tax on transfers of a decedent’s taxable estate. Today, Americans are confronted with the latest interpretations of such excise taxes, courtesy of the 2017 Tax Cuts […]

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