In order to build an efficient fiscal system, it is important to analyze not only the government's activity in the design and implementation of fiscal policy and fiscal system administration, but also how such activity is perceived by taxpayers, as one of key stakeholders of this system.Fiscal...

OECD and EU have unsuccessfully sought for some decades to rein in what they perceive as “harmful tax competition.” Despite occasional publicity from spectacular (and, in most cases, spectacularly unsuccessful) exemplary enforcement actions, the amount of taxes paid by corporations continues...

This article briefly assesses the “venture capital friendliness” of four Central European tax/legal jurisdictions (Poland, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republics) following their European Union (EU) accession – in May 2004. It is noteworthy that, notwithstanding the heated debate on tax...

The receipt of workplace fringe benefits has become increasingly ubiquitous. As a result of their employment, employees often receive a cornucopia of fringe benefits, including frequent-flier miles, hotel rewards points, rental car preferred status, office supply dollar coupons, cellular...

The principal purpose of this paper is to derive an expected value measure of the tax underreporting rate given only tax authority enforcement data. The main result is that the expected value measure of the underreporting rate is a modified geometric mean function of the audit rate and the...

Based on the notion that the size of an initially-smaller but faster-growing investment would eventually reach and exceed the size of an initially-larger but slower-growing investment, the “full-value model” developed in this paper shows that the assumption that repatriation is eventually...

How do the Tangible Property Regulations affect you? If you are a business taxpayer who has acquired, produced or improved tangible property such as buildings, machinery or equipment, you may need to make changes to accounting methods and revise your tax planning strategy. Based on options...

When a debtor goes bankrupt and limited assets have to be divided between competing creditors, should unpaid taxes owed to the government be paid before the debts owed to other creditors? This Article defends the notion that some tax debts should be awarded priority. Insofar as bankruptcy...

Since 1980, the United States has taxed U.S. real property gains of foreign investors. A nonresident must pay tax on the capital gain from the sale of U.S. real property or rights in U.S. real property, as well as on the sale of shares in non-publicly held domestic corporations that hold...