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Designing A More Sustainable Global Tax System, Allison Christians Jun 2021

Designing A More Sustainable Global Tax System, Allison Christians

Dalhousie Law Journal

The international tax system incentivizes unsustainable business practices because it ignores the private profits created by externalizing human, societal, and environmental costs. This paper proposes a novel reform: applying living wage and externality assessment tools to the rules for establishing where income arises for tax purposes. To do so, I propose a method that is relatively complex but arguably more accurate (in tax terms) and a complementary but relatively simpler proxy method. I examine how each method would implicate treaty-based and domestic rules and processes and conclude that the proposed design provides a viable starting point to make the global …


Evolution Of The Canadian Tax Reform, John G. Head Sep 1973

Evolution Of The Canadian Tax Reform, John G. Head

Dalhousie Law Journal

The passage of the Tax Reform Bill in December 1971 marked the end of an extraordinary decade of inquiry and debate on federal tax reform in Canada. Minor (and some major) changes are still being made, and a further instalment of reform is to be expected in the area of sales taxation. The more controversial issues of tax reform in the field of income taxation have, however, been finally settled, at least for the next few years and probably for a much longer period. While business firms, families and the government wrestle with the complexities of the new system, it …