"A gripping account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the ages Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British...

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in the landmark 2018 Wayfair case greatly improved state governments' ability to enforce collection of sales taxes on a destination basis. This has reduced state tax competition with an essentially-untaxed internet, but has brought traditional cross-border...

In August 2004, the U.K. adopted a tax shelter regulatory regime after extensive study of the U.S. and Australian regimes. The result of the project was a system that incorporates two of three elements of the U.S. system. This paper reviews the U.S. tax shelter provisions and compares the new...

Tax havens in offshore lands like Switzerland, the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas were once considered a rarity, the preserve of the super-rich. Today, they are big business available to the masses. Their goal? To avoid any form of accountability. Own nothing. Possess everything. Be answerable...

Change and Stability in Global Tax Policy -- Power in International Tax Politics -- Countering Harmful Tax Practices -- The Swift Return of Tax Competition -- The Emergence of Multilateral AEI -- The BEPS Project : Long Live Arm's Length -- From Hegemony to Transatlantic Tax Battle?