The Challenges Of Tax Reform In A Global Economy

Author : James Alm,Jorge Martinez-Vazquez,Mark Rider
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0387299122

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The Challenges of Tax Reform in a Global Economy by James Alm,Jorge Martinez-Vazquez,Mark Rider Pdf

This book presents 15 original papers and commentaries by a distinguished group of tax policy and tax administration experts. Using international examples, they highlight the state of knowledge of tax reform, present new thinking about the issue, and analyze useful policy options. The book’s general goal is to examine the current and emerging challenges facing tax reformers and to assess possible directions future reforms are likely to take. More specific themes include distributional issues, how to tax capital income, how to design specific taxes (e.g., the income tax, the value-added tax, the property tax), how to consider the politics and administrative aspects of tax reform, and how to combine the separate insights into comprehensive tax reform.

Author : James Alm,Jorge Martinez-Vazquez,Mark Rider
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0387563040

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The Challenges of Tax Reform in a Global Economy by James Alm,Jorge Martinez-Vazquez,Mark Rider Pdf

This book presents 15 original papers and commentaries by a distinguished group of tax policy and tax administration experts. Using international examples, they highlight the state of knowledge of tax reform, present new thinking about the issue, and analyze useful policy options. The book’s general goal is to examine the current and emerging challenges facing tax reformers and to assess possible directions future reforms are likely to take. More specific themes include distributional issues, how to tax capital income, how to design specific taxes (e.g., the income tax, the value-added tax, the property tax), how to consider the politics and administrative aspects of tax reform, and how to combine the separate insights into comprehensive tax reform.

Author : Assaf Razin,Joel Slemrod
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226705880

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Taxation in the Global Economy by Assaf Razin,Joel Slemrod Pdf

The increasing globalization of economic activity is bringing an awareness of the international consequences of tax policy. The move toward the common European market in 1992 raises the important question of how inefficiencies in the various tax systems—such as self-defeating tax competition among member nations—will be addressed. As barriers to trade and investment tumble, cross-national differences in tax structures may loom larger and create incentives for relocations of capital and labor; and efficient and equitable income tax systems are becoming more difficult to administer and enforce, particularly because of the growing importance of multinational enterprises. What will be the role of tax policy in this more integrated world economy? Assaf Razin and Joel Slemrod gathered experts from two traditionally distinct specialties, taxation and international economics, to lay the groundwork for understanding these issues, which will require the attention of scholars and policymakers for years to come. Contributors describe the basic provisions of the U.S. tax code with respect to international transactions, highlighting the changes contained in the U.S. Tax Reform Act of 1986; explore the ways that tax systems influence the decisions of multinationals; examine the effect of taxation on trade patterns and capital flows; and discuss the implications of the opening world economy for the design of optimal international tax policy. The papers will prove valuable not only to scholars and students, but to government economists and international tax lawyers as well.

Author : Takatoshi Ito,Anne O. Krueger
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226387000

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The Political Economy of Tax Reform by Takatoshi Ito,Anne O. Krueger Pdf

The rapid emergence of East Asia as an important geopolitical-economic entity has been one of the most visible and striking changes in the international economy in recent years. With that emergence has come an increased need for understanding the problems of interdependence. As a step toward meeting this need, the National Bureau of Economic Research joined with the Korea Development Institute to sponsor this volume, which focuses on the complexities of tax reform in a global economy. Experts from Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, Japan, and Thailand, as well as the United States, Canada, and Israel examine the major tax programs of the 1980s and their domestic and international economic effects. The analyses reveal similarities between the United States and countries in East Asia in political constraints on policy making, and taken together they show how growing interdependence interacts with domestic economic and political concerns to affect issues as politically vital as tax reform. Economists, policymakers, and members of the business community will benefit from these studies.

Author : Malcolm Gillis
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0822308983

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Tax Reform in Developing Countries by Malcolm Gillis Pdf

This volume presents the work of experts on the tax reform in several developing countries, from the restructuring of the economy of post-war Japan to the 1986 reforms in Jamaica. This study is based on the conference convened by the Center for International Development Research of the Institute of Policy Sciences at Duke University in April 1988.

Author : Michael P. Devereux,Alan J. Auerbach,Michael Keen,Paul Oosterhuis,John Vella,Wolfgang Schön
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198808060

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Taxing Profit in a Global Economy by Michael P. Devereux,Alan J. Auerbach,Michael Keen,Paul Oosterhuis,John Vella,Wolfgang Schön Pdf

The international tax system is in dire need of reform. It allows multinational companies to shift profits to low tax jurisdictions and thus reduce their global effective tax rates. A major international project, launched in 2013, aimed to fix the system, but failed to seriously analyse the fundamental aims and rationales for the taxation of multinationals' profit, and in particular where profit should be taxed. As this project nears its completion, it is becomingincreasingly clear that the fundamental structural weaknesses in the system will remain. This book, produced by a group of economists and lawyers, adopts a different approach and starts from first principles in order to generate an international tax system fit for the 21st century. This approach examines fundamental issues of principle and practice in the taxation of business profit and the allocation of taxing rights over such profit amongst countries, paying attention to the interests and circumstances of advanced and developing countries. Once this conceptual framework is developed, the book evaluates the existing system and potential reform options against it. A number of reform options are considered, ranging from those requiring marginal change to radically different systems. Some options have been discussed widely. Others, particularly Residual Profit Split systems and a Destination Based Cash-Flow Tax, are more innovative and have been developed at some length and in depth for the first time in this book. Their common feature is that they assign taxing rights partly/fully to the location of relatively immobile factors: shareholders or consumers.

Author : Iris Claus
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849804998

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Tax Reform in Open Economies by Iris Claus Pdf

This book brings together research from some of the world s leading tax economists to discuss appropriate directions for tax reform in small open economies. The eminent contributors (including Altshuler, Creedy, Freebairn, Gravelle, Heady, Kalb, Sørensen and Zodrow) investigate the beneficial directions for medium-term tax reform in the light of global developments and lessons from the latest taxation research. In addressing this issue, they review recent advances in both the theoretical and empirical tax literature and reform evidence from individual countries. Topics covered include the impact of taxes on economic performance; international and corporate taxation; personal tax and welfare systems; environmental taxation; and country-specific tax reform experiences. Bringing together leading international experts to explore specific policy reforms, this book will prove essential reading for academics and researchers of public economics, fiscal policy and tax reform. It will also be warmly welcomed both by undergraduate and graduate students of public economics or the economics of taxation, as well as policymakers and government officials working in the area of tax policy.

Author : Simon R. James
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415188016

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Taxation by Simon R. James Pdf

Author : Wayne R. Thirsk
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821339990

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Tax Reform in Developing Countries by Wayne R. Thirsk Pdf

Tax Reform in Developing Countries carefully examines the experience of eight developing countries that have undergone -- and in some instances are still undergoing -- significant and comprehensive tax reform. The countries are Bolivia, Colombia, Indonesia, Jamaica, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, and Turkey. It draws on their experiences to find lessons learned and to see how they may be applied to other countries on the road to tax reform. Equal attention is given to the process of tax reform, how it is implemented, and the substance or results of reform efforts. Throughout, the focus is on the practical rather than the theoretical aspects of tax reform.

Author : Michael P. Devereux,Alan J. Auerbach,Michael Keen,Paul Oosterhuis,Wolfgang Schön,John Vella
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192535573

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Taxing Profit in a Global Economy by Michael P. Devereux,Alan J. Auerbach,Michael Keen,Paul Oosterhuis,Wolfgang Schön,John Vella Pdf

This book undertakes a fundamental review of the existing international system of taxing business profit. It steps back from the current political debates on how to combat profit shifting and how taxing rights over the profits of the digitalized economy should be allocated. Instead, it starts from first principles to ask how we should evaluate a tax on business profit—and whether there is any good rationale for such a tax in the first place. It then goes on to evaluate the existing system and a number of alternatives that have been proposed. It argues that the existing system is fundamentally flawed, and that there is a need for radical reform. The key conclusion from the analysis is that there would be significant gains from a reform that moved the system towards taxing profit in the country in which a business made its sales to third parties. That conclusion informs two proposals that are put forward in detail and evaluated: the Residual Profit Allocation by Income (RPAI) and the Destination-based Cash Flow Tax (DBCFT). The book is authored by group of economists and lawyers—the Oxford International Tax Group, chaired by Michael P. Devereux. It draws insights from both economics and law—including economic theory, empirical evidence on the impact of taxes, and an examination of practical issues of implementation—to assess the existing system and to consider fundamental reforms. This book will be useful to tax policy makers, tax professionals, academics, and anyone interested in tax policy.

Author : Harry Grubert,Timothy Scott Newlon
Publisher : American Enterprise Institute
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0844770698

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Taxing Consumption in a Global Economy by Harry Grubert,Timothy Scott Newlon Pdf

In their analysis of how a consumption tax would affect investment choices by multinational corporations, the authors of this text consider capital inflows into the US and the likely consequences of a simplification of the taxation of international transactions.

Author : Chris Edwards,Daniel J. Mitchell
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781933995977

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Global Tax Revolution by Chris Edwards,Daniel J. Mitchell Pdf

This book explores one of the most dynamic and exciting aspects of globalization—international tax competition. With rising mobility and soaring capital flows, individuals and businesses are gaining freedom to work and invest in nations with lower tax rates. That freedom is pressuring governments to cut taxes on income, investment, and wealth. In Global Tax Revolution, Chris Edwards and Daniel Mitchell chronicle tax reforms around the world in recent decades. They describe the dramatic business tax cuts of Ireland, the flight of successful people from high-tax France, and the introduction of simple “flat taxes” in more than two dozen nations. Like other aspects of globalization, tax competition is generating intense political opposition. Numerous governments and international organizations are fighting to restrict tax cuts. Edwards and Mitchell challenge those efforts, arguing that tax competition is helping to advance prosperity, expand human rights, and rein in bloated governments.The authors argue that the U.S. economy can be revitalized by embracing competition and overhauling the federal tax code. They discuss how current tax rules suppress wages and investment and describe the tax changes needed for workers and businesses to succeed in the fast-paced global economy. Rather than idly complaining about jobs and capital moving offshore, this book argues that policymakers need to embrace major tax reforms to ensure rising standards of living for Americans in the years ahead.

Author : Brigitte Alepin,Lyne Latulippe,Louise Otis
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789403537603

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Coordination and Cooperation by Brigitte Alepin,Lyne Latulippe,Louise Otis Pdf

Series on International Taxation #81 The tax landscape today looks dramatically different from how it appeared even a generation ago. Ongoing sweeping changes in information technologies, massive economic downturns, unforeseen catastrophes such as the global pandemic that hit the world in 2020, and ever more sophisticated methods of tax evasion and avoidance are only some of the factors that have perplexed and even confounded tax authorities. This important book provides a comprehensive overview of the global tax challenges confronting tax policy today, with insightful contributions by both well-known tax experts and fresh new voices in the field. The authors address such critical issues as the following: international tax reform initiatives; effects of climate change; tax justice in times of crisis; international tax cooperation; taxing multinationals; role of tax havens; participation and collaboration of developing countries; the growing presence of artificial intelligence and robots; prospects for a green economic recovery; and tax ethics and social inclusiveness. The contributions originated with the groundbreaking tax summit TaxCOOP2020, held online at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in October 2020. At a time when tax policy seems poised at the dawn of a fundamental transformation, this inestimable volume will be welcomed by tax practitioners and academics, concerned government officials, businesspeople, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), all of whom will here have access to a variety of points of view and innovative approaches to the future direction of taxation.

Author : Michael J. Boskin,Charles E. McLure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Taxation
ISBN : UCSD:31822007081730

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World Tax Reform by Michael J. Boskin,Charles E. McLure Pdf

A review of current thinking on taxation which examines the changes in tax structure occurring in 11 countries, ranging from Indonesia and Mexico to Sweden and the United States. The book coincides with a trend towards tax reform which has taken hold in many developed and developing countries.

Author : Dimitrios D. Thomakos,Konstantinos I. Nikolopoulos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319653105

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Taxation in Crisis by Dimitrios D. Thomakos,Konstantinos I. Nikolopoulos Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive guide to modern day taxation issues. It presents a thorough overview of many of the crucial aspects of applied taxation and current tax systems, and presents evidence that supports taxation as an important policy issue requiring immediate address globally. Contributions seek to address the core question of how to design a tax policy mix that can serve primarily efficiency, growth and possibly equity goals at a time where fiscal spending, for many economies, is not a viable option. Chapters provide a historical perspective on taxation, then go on to cover aspects of the modern theory of optimal taxation and tax design and provide valuable international perspectives on current tax practices and much required tax reforms. Empirical analysis on taxation and related economic data help the readers to understand how data-based observations and results are linked to the theory of taxation, and more importantly economic growth, before offering appropriate policy prescriptions. This book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners interested in learning more about taxation and why it matters today in the global economy.