John E. Bragonje (BYU Class of 2005) has published The Rise and Fall of the Check-the-Box Regime: A Solution to Recent Private Letter Rulings’ Troubling Use of the De Facto Corporation Doctrine, also available on the Tax Analysts web site as Doc 2005-9245, 2005 TNT 87-45. The article examines relief for administrative corporate revocations under the check-the-box regs and argues that the IRS has based relief on an unworkable doctrine that will cause disparate treatment according to the corporation’s home state.




