En matière de fiscalité, l’Europe s’est construite avec pour seuls buts l’élimination des doubles impositions et des discriminations, l’idée d’une harmonisation qui faisait encore débat dans les années `70 n’étant désormais plus à l’ordre du jour. La mise en concurrence...

I argue that, on theoretical grounds, the discretionary component of taxation should be allowed to have different effects than the automatic response of tax revenues to macroeconomic variables. Based on a novel dataset, I show two results. First, responses to a tax shock that allow for a...

Dutch Auction Rate Preferred Stock (DARPS) was created in the 1980s as a way for fully taxable corporate investors and tax-exempt issuers to share the tax benefits of the dividends received deduction. DARPS dividend yields were reset every few weeks through an auction, minimizing price risk and...

This paper aims to formalise both the role of trust (in) and power (of) tax authorities as major determinants of tax compliance, and the interplay between trust and power and its influence on tax climate and overall tax compliance. Unlike the related literature that studies the role of the...

This review illustrates the interaction between law and finance in the particular case of the taxation of constructive sales. The focus is on the treatment of variable prepaid forward contracts and the rules regarding these instruments articulated by Revenue Ruling 2003-7 and the recent case...

Le Code européen du contribuable est l’une des 34 mesures contenues dans le Plan d'action de la Commission européenne pour lutter contre la fraude et l'évasion fiscales qui a été adopté le 6 décembre 2012. Il s'agit d'une mesure qui pourrait améliorer la perception de l'impôt et...

Public expenditure and collection of public resources generate interactions among different subjects of law, natural and legal persons, subjects of public law and private law. These interactions are the main object of the financial regulation, both at domestic and EU level. The legal relations...

Este artículo examina las características del impuesto sobre la renta colombiano y la manera en que ellas moldean su potencial distributivo. El escrito llama la atención sobre la importancia de distinguir entre la distribución de la carga tributaria y el efecto de la misma sobre la...

The present paper is an empirical study, the goal of which is to determine the strength of various arguments that have been used to justify tax evasion and to determine whether results differ based on certain demographic variables. A survey instrument was constructed using a seven-point Likert...

This case was an adapted version of a tax case heard in U.S. Federal District Court and the US Court of Appeals. The case involved a partnership set-up by a large US corporation with its own subsidiaries as managing partners and foreign partners as outside investors. The formation of the...