The European Union needs to raise significant resources to finance a just green transition. At the same time, there is a widespread fiscal regressivity in many EU countries. Indeed, recent empirical evidence shows that the tax systems of many EU members are characterized by low degrees of...

Taxes have extraordinary roles in any country's economic development and policymaking. This study extends prior studies by investigating the impact of direct and indirect taxes on the economic development of 47 developed and 90 developing countries. All data about the variables involved in the...

This paper aims to describe the state of multilateral and unilateral efforts to tax digital services; summarize the state of economic analysis on digital services taxes; and provide an overview of where the Philippines stands in relation to other countries in digital service taxation. On-going...

The European Union needs to raise significant resources to finance a just green transition. At the same time, there is a widespread fiscal regressivity in many EU countries. Indeed, recent empirical evidence shows that the tax systems of many EU members are characterized by low degrees of...

The main objective of this work is to assess the challenges to be faced by Brazil to become a full member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in terms of tax rules related to controlled foreign companies, transfer pricing, thin capitalization, and mandatory...

Fiscal policy in the U.S. and other countries renders intertemporal budgets non-differentiable, nonconvex, and discontinuous. Consequently, assessing work and saving responses to policy requires global optimization. This paper develops the Global Life-Cycle Optimizer (GLO), a stochastic...

Public health advocates warn that the rapid growth of legal markets for electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) may generate a "gateway" to marijuana and harder drug consumption, particularly among teenagers. This study is the first to explore the effects of ENDS taxes on substance use. We...

Many developing countries have been trying to expand in the last decades their taxing powers on cross-border services rendered by non-residents beyond the rigid framework of the current international tax regime. However, this expansion has been carried on unilaterally and sometimes in an...

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo analiza desde una perspectiva crítica los trabajos realizados hasta el momento, esencialmente en el seno de la OCDE y la ONU, sobre la adecuación del Plan BEPS a los intereses de los países en vías de desarrollo, para concluir: 1) Que no todas las acciones...

Spanish Abstract: La pandemia del Covid-19 ha restringido la libertad circulación imponiendo presencias forzadas o, al menos, no deseadas. Estas presencias pueden desembocar en consecuencias tributarias imprevistas sobre todo en relación con la fiscalidad internacional. La reacción de la...