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The New Poor At Our Gates: Global Justice Implications For International Trade And Tax Law, Ilan Benshalom
The New Poor At Our Gates: Global Justice Implications For International Trade And Tax Law, Ilan Benshalom
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The Article explains why international trade and tax arrangements should advance global wealth redistribution in a world of enhanced economic integration. Despite the indisputable importance of global poverty and inequality, contemporary political philosophy stagnates over the controversy of whether distributive justice obligations should extend beyond the political framework of the nation state. This stagnation results from the difficulty of reconciling liberal impartiality with notions of state sovereignty and accountability. The Article offers an alternative approach that bypasses the controversy of the current debate. It argues that international trade results in relational distributive duties when domestic parties engage in transactions with …
The Quest To Tax Interest Income: Stages In The Development Of International Taxation, Ilan Benshalom
The Quest To Tax Interest Income: Stages In The Development Of International Taxation, Ilan Benshalom
Faculty Working Papers
The Article offers a new perspective on the way international income tax has developed from its nascency, 85 years ago, to the present day. Its main claim is that, due to the lack of a clear normative tax agenda, trade considerations unduly eroded the income tax base. Such trade considerations highlight the importance of reducing tax obstacles on trade and investment to liberalize and integrate international markets. These considerations penetrated international income tax discourse during the Cold War period, when liberalizing trade was part of a broader western agenda to establish dominance through the liberalization of international markets. The Article …