This article examines some aspects of the European Union's corporate tax set-up which correspond to aspects of a country's corporate tax regime. The overarching question is whether there is such a thing as EU corporate tax law. This article seeks to address this in the context of the following...

The main goal of this study is to assess whether, and if so, how the tax policy is implemented in Poland in relation to informal partnerships. The justification for conducting research in this area is the growing number of such relationships and the demands formulated by the public on the...

The paper is the result of the Doctoral Course 'The abuse of the concept of abuse in tax law' that was taught in Bergamo 2008. The paper stresses the problems for having different approaches to tax avoidance and, therefore, tax abuse, and tries to reconcile the different approaches from a...

Accounting for the interests of the environment in tax law means teaching a balance between the tax system and environmental protection, between ability to pay considerations and the polluter pays principle. To create a large number of environmental taxes would make the tax system incoherent and...

This is a thematic report on the topic of "Administrative Surcharges: Instruments of Cooperative Tax Compliance Regimes" for the 2015 annual meeting of the European Association of Tax Law Professors in Milan. Professors participating in the meeting were surveyed regarding their countries' use of...

Issuers in registered securities offerings must disclose the expected tax consequences to investors investing in the offered securities (“nonfinancial tax disclosure”). This Article advances three arguments regarding nonfinancial tax disclosures. First, nonfinancial tax disclosure practice,...

Legal fictions have been included in various tax laws in many countries. In respect of tax treaties, they may give rise to various questions, such as:• Does the inclusion of a legal fiction in a national tax law after the conclusion of a tax treaty constitute tax treaty override?• Does the...

In the national and supranational legal area, the need to address the ne bis in idem principle is justified by the growing interest aroused by the most recent pronouncements of the European Courts. The principle prohibits anyone who has already been acquitted or convicted in a previous trial...

To ensure the neutrality of EU VAT, a supplier can (in principle) under Article 90 of the VAT Directive, reduce the taxable amount if – among other situations – the customer fails to pay for the supply (non-payment or 'bad debt'). Article 185 addresses the other side of the transaction and...