Income Tax at 100 Years: Essays and Reflections on the Income War Tax Act commemorates the 100th anniversary of Canada's Income War Tax Act, 1917, with papers and panel discussions from a wide range of distinguished contributors: tax practitioners, both accountants and lawyers; academic experts...

Over the last 40 years, tax expenditure analysis has reshaped the way policy makers and practitioners around the world think about the design of tax systems. This volume presents recent research on tax expenditures and their role in the fiscal and public policy systems of OECD countries....

By taking the Great Wall of China as an analogy for China's treaty policy, the author considers key aspects of China's treaty network and its implications, and whether or not this constitutes a “Great Fiscal Wall of China.”Cited with the permission of IBFD

The book is a study of the current state of international tax law and its application (or non-application) to electronic commerce in Canada, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and the United States. Its purpose is to examine the extent to which current theories and principles of international...

The general anti-avoidance rule (GAAR) in section 245 of the Income Tax Act is about drawing a line between legitimate tax minimization and abusive tax avoidance. However, the GAAR does not provide guidelines for determining whether a particular transaction is legitimate or abusive. In this...