The German law to combat VAT fraud and other tax regulations went into force recently. The German legislator aims to enforce German VAT law via a liability of platform operators (like Amazon and eBay). The consequences of this regulatory approach are a) that platform operators enforce the law...

The importance of debt-for-equity swaps has come to the fore once again when a lethal combination of a lack of liquidity and a lack of new bank finance and capital injection on a perceived deterioration in covenant strength, associated with the vagaries of the most recent global economic crisis...

By taking the Great Wall of China as an analogy for China's treaty policy, the author considers key aspects of China's treaty network and its implications, and whether or not this constitutes a “Great Fiscal Wall of China.”Cited with the permission of IBFD

The recent policy literature on fiscal federalism in China has concentrated on the large “vertical fiscal gap” resulting in inadequate local provision of public goods and services. Thus there is an evident interest in giving local governments more taxing powers. After a brief historical...

The reason for extending the Value Added Tax (VAT) to the services sector in China is not sufficiently powerful. Just looking at the services sector, substituting the sales tax with a VAT gives rise to many difficulties in terms of system design and implementation, and the possible problems may...

"High carbon model" a serious constraint on China's future development, "low carbon economy" will become an important breakthrough in China's construction of "ecological civilization." The carbon tax is important part of environmental tax, and environmental tax is also known as the ecological...

The Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao hosted the State Council conference on the 1st March (2011), discussing and passing the Draft Individual Income Tax Law Amendment (‘Amendment'). The ‘Amendment' outlines changes that should be made as a part of the individual income tax reform suggesting that...