This paper seeks to compare the wine tax regimes in South Africa, Australia and France. The aim of comparing these indirect taxes is to help inform the debate about the indirect taxation of wine. The paper examines these wine tax policies based on the generally accepted tax policy criteria of...

This book focuses on the shift of power in the global economy from the traditionally dominant nations that comprise the OECD, or, even more narrowly, the G7, to emerging economies, perhaps led by the BRICS. The book explores whether remodelling of the power structure shaping the global economy...

The book chapter charts a complex of ideas about how corporate and shareholder income was and ought to have been taxed over the course of the first half century of income taxation in South Africa (1914-1953). In this period, at least six phases with distinct patterns can be discerned. A close...

This book chapter traces the events of 1914 that led to the imposition of income tax in South Africa. Based on historical records, it explains the economic and political circumstances that appeared to motivate the first Union government to introduce an income tax. General Jan Smuts, then...

This article considers the taxation of cross-border pension payments from the perspective of Germany and South Africa in light of recent case law in Germany, and tax treaty law and relevant domestic law developments in the two countries

This book chapter is part of an analysis of European Community (EC) law as it may apply to taxpayers who are resident or nationals of countries that are not EC members (third states), specifically in the field of tax law. The chapter addresses the relation between South African and EC tax law....

In this contribution we discuss the position of Islamic finance in South Africa and the Netherlands in the light of legal pluralism and legal diversity in each legal system. Islamic finance is based on Islamic law, which is a set of moral and religious principles. According to Islamic law, the...

Most studies of tax evasion take an economic or public finance perspective. Not much has been written from a philosophical or ethical viewpoint. That is probably because most economists are utilitarians and most lawyers are legalists. However, there is a small body of literature that addresses...