The residence-based taxation of interest income in the EU faces the difficulty that taxpayers may evade taxation by holding bank accounts in other countries. The EU therefore makes considerable efforts to achieve cooperation among EU member states in order to improve tax enforcement. The present...

Several frictions restrict the government s ability to tax assets. First of all, it is very costly to monitor trades on international asset markets. Moreover, agents can resort to non-observable low-return assets such as cash, gold or foreign currencies if taxes on observable assets become too...

This volume of the Cahiers has been published by Sdu, The Netherlands, on behalf of the International Fiscal Association (IFA). Once a year the Cahiers de Droit Fiscal International are published and distributed free to all the members of the Association.00These Cahiers contain a wealth of...