Harry Baturin, Author at Georgetown Public Policy Review

Harry Baturin

Harry M. Baturin, Esq. teaches at Georgetown University in their Summer and Special Programs. He is also an Adjunct at Delaware Valley College in their Graduate Policy Studies Program. He is a Managing Trustee of a Charitable Trust and has a background practicing in non-profit, estates and business and taxation law at Baturin and Baturin Law Offices, established in 1917. He was a Guest Instructor at the Penn State University Dickinson School of Law for the Elder Law Seminar with Professor Katherine C. Pearson, Esq., an Instructor at the Delaware County Community College, and clerked at the Philadelphia Law Department covering tax and real estate issues prior to practicing.

Tax policy is often viewed as the primary method to encourage efficient financial behaviors among the population at large. Top economists may debate the extent to which taxation should be utilized to support positive economic objectives and reduce harmful ones, but it is generally agreed that tax policy should create some incentives for people to build wealth. In practice, however, current policy concentrates on helping middle and upper-income taxpayers, but real opportunities for low-income taxpayers are limited.