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- Title: Can States Tax National Banks to Educate Consumers About Predatory Lending Practices?
- Author : Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 386 KB
Description
Over the past quarter-century, consumer lending markets in the United States have become increasingly national in scope, with large national banks and other federally chartered institutions playing an ever more important role in many sectors, including credit card lending and home mortgages. At the same time, in a series of judicial decisions, courts have ruled that a wide range of state laws regulating abusive credit card and predatory mortgage lending practices are preempted, at least as applied to national banks and other federally-chartered institutions. Given the dominant role of such institutions in U.S. lending markets, these rulings have narrowed the capacity of states to police local lending transactions. As an alternative to direct regulation, the California Assembly recently considered legislation designed to improve consumer understanding of financial transactions through educational efforts. The measure would be financed by a new state tax on income from certain problematic loans made to California residents by financial institutions, including national banks and other federally-chartered institutions. This Article considers whether a tax of the sort proposed in California could survive a preemption challenge under recent court rulings, as well as other potential constitutional attacks. Although the States have quite limited powers to regulate federally chartered financial institutions, Congress explicitly authorizes states to tax national banks in 12 U.S.C. [section] 548. This Article explores the scope of state taxing authority that [section] 548 confers and the relationship between that authority and recent preemption rulings. After reviewing a range of legal precedent, the Article concludes that a state tax of the sort considered in California--imposing modest levies on federally chartered entities but not preventing them from engaging in otherwise authorized activities--should qualify as a legitimate exercise of state taxing power under [section] 548 and should withstand scrutiny both under the Due Process and Commerce Clauses to the extent the tax is imposed on out-of-state banks. INTRODUCTION
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