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MIT OpenCourseWare
Taxes and Business Strategy
- Instructor
- Prof. George Plesko
- Term
- Fall 2002
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 22 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 15.518 Taxes and Business Strategy, Fall 2002, Prof. George Plesko — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
Materials are grouped the way MIT organized them. A verified, course-wide order has not been established here.
Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
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- MIT's own materials here did not support a verified, course-wide order, so they are grouped by section instead.
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- Referenced in a table, but without MIT's own verified order, so it isn't used to claim a sequence. (2 items)
Materials by section
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Lecture Notes
17 files
- Lecture 1 · Introduction, Overview of the Course and the Role of Taxes in Business · Files Download
- Lecture 2 · A Framework For Tax Planning · Files Download
- Lecture 3 · A Framework For Tax Planning · Files Download
- Lecture 4 · Implicit Taxes and Clienteles · Files Download
- Lecture 5 · Organizational Form · Files Download
- Lecture 7 · Non-Tax Costs · Files Download
- Lecture 8 · Marginal Tax Rates · Files Download
- Lecture 9 · Compensation · Files Download
- Lecture 11 · Corporate Formation · Files Download
- Lecture 12 · Corporate Formation · Files Download
- Lecture 13 · Capital Structure · Files Download
- Lecture 14 · International · Files Download
- Lecture 18 · Taxable Acquisitions · Files Download
- Lecture 19 · Taxable Acquisitions · Files Download
- Lecture 20 · Taxable Acquisitions · Files Download
- Lecture 21 · Tax-Free Acquisitions · Files Download
- Lecture 24 · Divestitures · Files Download
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Course outline
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Lecture 2: A Framework For Tax Planning
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Lecture 3: A Framework For Tax Planning
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Lecture 4: Implicit Taxes and Clienteles
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Lecture 5: Organizational Form
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Lecture 6: Arbitrage and Limits to Tax Planning
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Lecture 7: Non-Tax Costs
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Lecture 8: Marginal Tax Rates
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Lecture 9: Compensation
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Lecture 10: Compensation
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Lecture 11: Corporate Formation
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Lecture 12: Corporate Formation
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Lecture 13: Capital Structure
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Lecture 14: International
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Lecture 15: International
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Lecture 16: International
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Lecture 17: International
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Lecture 18: Taxable Acquisitions
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Lecture 19: Taxable Acquisitions
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Lecture 20: Taxable Acquisitions
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Lecture 21: Tax-Free Acquisitions
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Lecture 22: Tax-Free Acquisitions
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Lecture 23: Guest Speaker
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Lecture 24: Divestitures
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Lecture 25: Divestitures
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Lecture 26: Miscellaneous Topics and Wrap-up
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. George Plesko, 15.518 Taxes and Business Strategy, Fall 2002.
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