Even if a tax planning structure is legal, it canstill be ‘‘unwanted.’’ However, those structuresmight soon be wanted — for disclosure. ‘‘Unwanted’’structures do not violate the letter of the law, butstill might infringe on the spirit of the law.[...]

The nature of the seventeenth-century Mughal state and its land revenue taxation system has become a matter of controversy in recent years. Irfan Habib and his followers dominated thinking on this subject from the sixties onwards. They saw the regime as highly centralized and essentially...

This paper analyses three options for financing higher education:• Tax funding, as proposed by the Liberal Democrats and, more recently, the Tories.• Tax funding plus upfront charges, as at present.• Tax funding plus deferred charges, as proposed in the White Paper on highereducation...

The housing system is intrinsically linked to almost every major area of government policy fromthe economy and taxation to the environment and education. It is driven by a huge range offactors from the behaviour of individuals to global economic forces. It is also in most casesthe greatest asset...

Economists generally assume that the state has sufffcient institutional capacityto support markets and levy taxes, assumptions which cannot be taken forgranted in many states, neither historcally nor in today’s developing world.Our paper develops a framework where "policy choices" in market...

The findings set out in this Report challenge the perception of low population support for rights overall - and the view that the public think rights are a “charter” for criminals and terrorists. They support the reasoning of the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) that economic and...

Untersucht wird die Auswirkung der Besteuerung von Aktienkursgewinnen auf die entscheidungsorientiert zu ermittelnden Eigenkapitalkosten von Unternehmungen. Sowohl für den Fall der internen als auch der externen Eigenfinanzierung eines zusätzlichen Investitionsprojektes kann gezeigt werden,...

Boadway & Bruce (1984) und König (1997) haben investitionsneutrale Steuersysteme unter Annahme eines in der Zeit konstanten Steuersatzes vollständig charakterisiert. Unter Benutzung einer Idee von Wenger (1983) werden die Untersuchungen auf den Fall zeitlich veränderbarer Steuersätze.

Die Gegenfinanzierung für die im Steuerentlastungsgesetz vorgesehenen Steuertarifsenkungen erfolgt durch die Verbreiterung der steuerlichen Bemessunngsgrundlage. Dabei dienen die Versicherungsunternehmen neben den Energieversorgern als die Hauptfinanziers dieser Steuerreform. Die...

A simple counterexample shows that the formula developed by Miles and Ezzell (1980) can be used to create an arbitrage opportunity. The only consequence to be drawn is that their WACC formula cannot be applied under the circumstances assumed by Miles and Ezzel. We show how the WACC theory has to...