This Comment evaluates four recent proposals to reform tax laws affecting the financial industry. After introducing the proposals, the author provides a theoretical framework for evaluating them and then relies on this framework to explore the benefits and drawbacks of each. Ultimately, the...

The IRS is struggling. Phone calls from confused taxpayers ring unanswered, paper returns pile up, aggressive tax filers are confident they are unlikely to be audited. Congress piles new responsibilities on the agency while (so far) slashing its budget to modern lows. This is a strange time,...

This article identifies and discusses some commonly made claims about the EU Commission's proposed FTT: (i) ordinary citizens and businesses will hardly be affected by the FTT, (ii) the proposed FTT is a “small tax”, (iii) the financial sector is under-taxed, (iv) high-frequency trading...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the global financial crisis on corporate' tax avoidance has been investigated. The statistical sample consists of 107 active firms in Tehran Stock Exchange between the years 2005 and 2014 which were selected through systematic removal. To...

We model the link between inequality and excessive risk taking. In the presence of increasing returns to tax avoidance, the middle class is willing to take non rewarded financial risk despite risk aversion. Electoral pressure may lead an incumbent politician to endorse this excessive risk taking...

To explore the propagation of undesirable policies in a form of populist extremism, we construct a social learning model featuring agency problems. Politicians in different countries sequentially implement a policy. Voters learn the incumbent politician's type and the desirable policy by...

It is a pleasure to welcome you here tonight on the eve of the Asia Tax Forum. A few years ago I hosted the Study Group on Asian Tax Administration and Research here in Sydney.Today, I welcome the Asia Tax Forum as a broadening of that relationship, noting the importance of that relationship to...