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Sampson County sought to collect $2.6 million from Aaron’s Rent-to-Own for personal property taxes owed for the period from 2010 through 2015 for the property which Aaron’s leased to consumers.  Aaron’s argued that the property was “in the process of being sold” and qualified as inventories under N.C.G.S. § 105-275(34).  The Tax Commission held that by Aaron’s renting the property to third parties, it was not entitled to the exclusion from personal property taxes.

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This paper reviews recent research on mortgage default, focusing on the relationship of this research to the recent foreclosure crisis. Research on defaults was advanced both theoretically and empirically by the time the crisis began, but economists have moved the frontier further by improving data sources, building dynamic optimizing models of default, and explicitly addressing reverse causality between rising foreclosures and falling house prices.

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This paper finds that graduates from universities that remove student loans from their financial aid policies are more likely to start entrepreneurial ventures and are more likely to subsequently get venture capital (VC) backing, particularly by reputed VCs, and get higher VC investment. Such ventures have higher sales and employment five years after founding. These results are stronger for universities with higher tuition and greater extent of R&D activity.

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This paper studies the effects of available student loan repayment plans on borrowers’ career choices. By removing the risk of loan default, income driven repayment (IDR) plans make higher-paying but riskier jobs more attractive to those with moderate skill levels. The authors present experimental evidence that student loan recipients consider the repayment plans offered to them as well as the plans available to other borrowers as a reference in their evaluations of loans and careers.

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During Ms. Boykin’s Chapter 13 case, the bankruptcy court held that the claim by the United States arising under the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare") out of her failure to obtain health insurance was a non-priority penalty and not a tax.  While this appeal by the government was pending, Ms. Boykin voluntarily converted her case to Chapter 7, in which all parties agreed there would be no insufficient assets for any distribution to creditors.

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Mr.  Bryan refinanced his home in 2007, with two mortgages, ultimately held by Nationstar, originally totaling $657,000.  In August 2009, Mr.  Bryant’s home was destroyed by fire, but was fortunately insured for up to $649,000.  By May of 2013, when the home had still apparently not been rebuilt and the insurance proceeds not disposed of, Nationstar brought a “secret lawsuit” against the insurance carrier and settled that suit for $445,000.  Nationstar then commenced foreclosure agains

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The Virginia Department of Social Services, Division of Child Support Enforcement, sought to obtain post-petition funds held by the Trustee following the dismissal of Mr. Webb’s unconfirmed Chapter 13 case to apply against his delinquent child support.

by Edward Boltz

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After selling his business to Evapco, Mr. Peterson continued to work for Evapco subject to a non-compete agreement.  Despite this, Mr. Peterson formed other entities which Evapco asserted violated such agreement and defrauded Evapco.  Evapco brought suit in Maryland, with the court there entering a default judgment as a sanction against Mr.

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The federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act obliges debt collectors to provide certain notices to consumers from whom they are attempting to collect debts. This article is the authors’ second to report findings from the first academic study of consumer understanding of one of those notices, commonly called the validation notice or “g notice.” The authors showed consumers different versions of collection letters and then asked questions to measure their understanding of the notices.