The Timing of Income Recognition in Tax Law and the Time Value of Money, by Moshe Shekel

Abstract

The Timing of Income Recognition in Tax Law and the Time Value of Money. By Moshe Shekel. London & New York: Routledge-Cavendish, 2009. Pp. xxxv + 327. $130. Moshe Shekel has produced a prodigious piece of work on timing, the result of a major research project. Shekel is a partner in an Israeli law firm that he founded and is also a lecturer at Tel Aviv University. Few American practitioners, even in down economic times, can afford the time to write a comprehensive, comparative study, systematically pulling together the doctrine and the controversies about doctrine in three sophisticated jurisdictions—the United States, the United Kingdom, and Israel. (It’s hard enough for us American lawyers to get a grasp on and critique American doctrine.) But that comprehensive, comparative work is exactly what Shekel has given us.