Getting tax and transfer systems to efficiently deliver sufficient revenues to achieve macroeconomic targets, address goals in re-distribution and social welfare, encourage employment, accommodate business-competitiveness concerns and incorporate environmental issues is difficult. In Australia,...

In Europe, declining corporate tax rates have come along with rising tax-to-GDP ratios. Thispaper explores to what extent income shifting from the personal to the corporate tax base canexplain these diverging developments. We exploit a panel of European data on firm births andlegal form of...

This position paper of the IBFD Academic Task Force (hereinafter IBFD Task Force) relates to the OECD's work on BEPS Action 1 and is devoted to withholding tax aspects. This position paper provides possible solutions to the challenges presented to the international tax regime by the digital...