The Committee's planned international tax reform draft (Draft) will undoubtedly suggest some transition from the present deferral system to some other system. As an integral part of that transition, it is expected as well that the Draft will impose taxation on all “accumulated deferred foreign...

This concise submission shows that from many tax policy standpoints a residence-based tax system would be significantly better than a territorial-based tax system. Policy issues mentioned include:-- competitiveness, -- broadening of the tax base so the rate can be lowered,-- domestic job loss--...

The Baucus Discussion Draft on international tax reform includes a mechanism for taxing the accumulated foreign earnings of controlled foreign corporations as of the effective date that a new system for taxing foreign earnings is effective.This letter suggests changes to make this aspect of the...

This submission to the House Ways & Means Committee following its June 13, 2013 "Hearing on Tax Reform: Tax Havens, Base Erosion and Profit-Shifting" adds some practical points to supplement what Professor Kleinbard presented at the hearing regarding his recommended worldwide tax consolidation...

The territorial system strongly lobbied for by U.S. multinational corporations that stand to benefit from that system is not what's best for our country or our society. It is bad tax policy for many reasons, including the strong motivation it provides our multinational corporations to continue...

The OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Project is now under way, its mission being to suggest ways that countries can work together and amend their domestic laws to combat the corporate profit shifting that has so affected the tax bases of many countries.The only way to truly eliminate...

We study reforms of non-linear income tax systems from a political economy perspective. We present a median voter theorem for monotonic tax reforms, reforms so that the change in the tax burden is a monotonic function of income. We also provide an empirical analysis of tax reforms, with a focus...

This paper provides necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of Pareto-improving tax reforms. The conditions can be expressed as sufficient statistics and have a wide range of potential applications in public finance. We discuss one such application in detail: the introduction of...

We present a conceptual framework for the analysis of politically feasible tax reforms. First, we prove a median voter theorem for monotonic reforms of non-linear tax systems. This yields a characterization of reforms that are preferred by a majority of individuals over the status quo and hence...

This paper provides necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of Pareto-improving tax reforms. The conditions can be expressed as sufficient statistics and have a wide range of potential applications in public finance. We discuss one such application in detail: the introduction of...