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Designing A More Sustainable Global Tax System, Allison Christians
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 …
Cross-Border Tax Transparency: A Study Of Recent Policy Developments In Turkey, Leyla Ateş
Cross-Border Tax Transparency: A Study Of Recent Policy Developments In Turkey, Leyla Ateş
Dalhousie Law Journal
Transnational tax information cooperation has the crucial role of empowering tax administrations to collect tax revenues in full and on time, thereby narrowing the tax gap created by international evasion and avoidance. However, the adequacy of established transnational tax information exchange systems in combatting international tax evasion and avoidance has been severely criticized and a new wave of progress on transparency has started after the 2008 global economic crisis. In this direction, Turkey set cross-border tax transparency high on its political agenda. Though, Turkey has operationalized new transnational tax cooperation agreements very slowly. Furthermore, Turkey’s approach to exchanging information has …