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Tax Law

2009

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The Oecd Harmful Tax Competition Report: A Tenth Anniversary Retrospective, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah Jan 2009

The Oecd Harmful Tax Competition Report: A Tenth Anniversary Retrospective, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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Eleven years ago the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development published its report "Harmful Tax Competition: An Emerging Global Issue." The Report identified for the first time two problem areas facing international income taxation of geographically mobile activities: tax havens and harmful preferential tax regimes. It sought to initiate activities to eliminate both types of problems.


Risks, Rents And Regressivity Revisited, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah Jan 2009

Risks, Rents And Regressivity Revisited, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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This article seeks to survey the debate in the United States about whether the tax base should be income or consumption, and then focus on some recent arguments that have been made in favour of a consumption tax. In the author's opinion, none of these arguments are convincing, and he would favour adopting a consumption tax in addition to, and not in lieu of, the existing income tax.


Reconsidering The Taxation Of Foreign Income, James R. Hines Jr. Jan 2009

Reconsidering The Taxation Of Foreign Income, James R. Hines Jr.

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The purpose of this Article is to analyze the consequences of taxing active foreign business income,1 and in particular, to compare a regime in which a home country taxes foreign income to a regime in which it does not. In practice, countries typically do not adopt such extreme policy positions. For example, a country such as France, which largely exempts foreign business income from taxation, nevertheless taxes small pieces of foreign income;2 and a country such as the United States, which attempts to tax the foreign incomes of U.S. corporations, permits taxpayers to defer home country taxation in some circumstances, …