This investigation has the objective of study the social cohesion and its relationship with tax evasion in Bolivia. Social cohesion, understood in simple terms as all the elements that maintain a society together, determines the cooperation between individuals. Using indicators proposed by ECLAC...

This investigation has the objective of study the social cohesion and its relationship with tax evasion in Bolivia. Social cohesion, understood in simple terms as all the elements that maintain a society together, determines the cooperation between individuals. Using indicators proposed by ECLAC...

This Article addresses the legal consequences a taxpayer should consider when deciding whether to comply with the basic requirements of the federal income tax laws. A taxpayer considering noncompliance should consider the government's authority to assert criminal liability, impose civil tax...

Capabilities concern freedom and human dignity. A capability marks out an ability to do or be. If I possess a capability, then I have the ability to do an action (obtain food, speak freely, etc.) or to become a certain kind of person (self-directing, etc.). A capability is different from actual...

Canadian National Report prepared for the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Conference on tax secrecy and transparency, Rust, Austria, July, 2012. The aim of the project is to assess how different countries regard the treatment of tax information and tax secrecy. Topics include the...

Activists around the world seek to expose a global system that fails to tax multinationals adequately and thus deprives governments of needed revenues, with profound effects for development in the world's poorest nations. These tax activists have sparked a global movement, with groups all over...

A group of journalists recently revealed “LuxLeaks”: a set of documents showing that Luxembourg’s tax authority has been systemically delivering secret deals to multinationals. In this column, I explain why LuxLeaks has revealed a feature, not a bug, in the international tax system....

Frequently, practitioners encounter client queries relating to the ‘value' of their intangible asset (including, but not limited to, identifiable intangible assets other than intellectual property and goodwill, intellectual property such as trademarks, patents, copyright or indeed goodwill)....

Although collusive tax evasion by buyers and sellers of commodities and also by employers and employees is widespread all over the world, it has rarely been analyzed in the tax evasion literature. To fill this gap and to compare collusive tax evasion with independent tax evasion, this paper...

Many people — perhaps most — want to make money and lower their taxes, but few want to unabashedly break the law. These twin desires have led to a range of strategies, such as the use of “paper corporations” and offshore tax havens, that produce sizable profits with minimal costs. The...