The recent international agreement on a minimum effective corporate tax rate marks a profound change in global tax arrangements. The appropriate level of that minimum, however, has been, and remains, extremely contentious. This paper explores the strategic responses to a minimum tax, which-the...

A key obstacle to fundamental tariff reform in many developing countries is the revenue loss that it ultimately implies. This paper establishes a simple and practicable strategy for realizing the efficiency gains from tariff reform without reducing public revenues, showing that for a small open...

One of the most striking tax developments in recent years, and one that continues to attract considerable attention, is the adoption by several countries of a form of ""flat tax."" Discussion of these quite radical reforms has been marked, however, more by assertion and rhetoric than by analysis...