Comments briefly on the OECD report on Guernsey as an Offshore Financial Centre, one which is emphatically not a Non‐Cooperative Country or Territory. Focuses on the misuse of corporate vehicles for illicit purposes, and outlines the main objectives of the Report to ensure proper access and...

The integration of world capital markets carries important implications for the design and impact of tax policies. This paper evaluates research findings on international taxation, drawing attention to connections and inconsistencies between theoretical and empirical observations. Diamond and...

This paper identifies tax factors in 21 developing countries that have an impact on foreign direct investment flows. It categorizes those factors into issues associated with tax coordination; tax rates and rate structures; and composition of the tax base. Recent actions by countries reveal no...

Summary In the present paper, I analyse the competitive behaviour of benevolent governments in the presence of (capital) income tax evasion when information exchange is not possible. My approach is to introduce a cost of evasion function into an otherwise standard tax competition model and to...

In the present paper, 1 analyse the competitive behaviour of benevolent governments in the presence of (capital) income tax evasion when information exchange is not possible. My approach is to introduce a cost of evasion function into an otherwise standard tax competition model and to explore...

In recent years the level of taxation of many developing countries has changed dramatically over relatively short periods. These changes are too large and too sudden to attribute fully to a deterioration in tax administration or to changes in the traditional determinants of tax levels. The paper...

According to the latest OECD-publication on tax competition, harmfulness and fairness of international tax arrangements are an emerging global issue. This paper surveys the current suggestions of the OECD for a code of „fair and good“ taxation from perspective of international cooperation...