NOTE: This paper is an unfinished work of William D. Andrews, who was the Eli Goldston Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a premier tax scholar of his generation. This substantial but not fully completed manuscript was found among his papers after his death on May 20, 2017. It examines...

Following the establishment of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), concerns about having a level playing field become more important due to the heterogeneity in bank taxation rules across Europe: measuring the tax burden can provide a first rough measure of the extent of heterogeneity across...

This paper argues that forward-looking indices of the effective tax burden on income from capital, namely effective marginal and average tax rates, are negatively biased because traditional models overlook dividend constraints associated with financial tax incentives, such as accelerated...

In this paper we present a computer-based model (so-called European Tax Analyzer) for the international computation and comparison of company tax burdens. The methodology follows the forward-looking concepts for the measurement of effective average tax rates (EATR) on the basis of a model-firm....