Remote seller state sales and use tax collection and compliance is a significant and increasing economic issue for state and local jurisdictions, especially given the impact on interstate commerce and Congress' Commerce Clause authority to regulate in that area. In this article, author Thomas...

Unemployment insurance is almost universally recognized as one of a government's best tools for fighting recessions, as well as an important source of relief for working-class families suffering temporary hardship. Unfortunately, as commentators and Congress have recognized, the U.S. system of...

There is no consensus on how strongly the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) has stimulated U.S. private fixed investment. Some argue that the business tax provisions spurred investment by cutting the cost of capital. Others see the TCJA primarily as a windfall for shareholders. We find that U.S....

Scholars and courts recognize that the federal government uses its broad spending power to enlist states in achieving federal goals, thereby expanding the federal government’s reach beyond the areas enumerated for it in the Constitution. Similarly, the federal government can achieve similar...

Cross-border tax disputes are usually channelled through the "mutual agreement procedure", an informal negotiation between the tax authorities of the states involved. Arbitration has been suggested as an alternative, and is starting to be instituted. Arbitration will probably be a good "stick"...

Tax law science has a longstanding tradition in the USA and Western Europe. In contrast, Central and Eastern European legal science has only recently admitted the independent existence of financial law. Financial law, however, is a very broad area of law. This fact will lead to a diversification...

At a time when states are desperately struggling to balance their budgets, one source of additional revenue has been overlooked: decoupling state tax policies from federal tax policies to modify deductions and credits that reduce citizens’ state tax liability. While forty-three states and the...

The editors of GST in Retrospect and Prospect claim to seek to provide guidance on VAT and GST for future decision making by policymakers, law drafters, tax advisers, businesses, and tax administrators. This book is a result of a symposium held by the Centre for Accounting, Governance and...

In this article, the authors propose property tax reforms that would allow local governments to raise property tax revenue while protecting vulnerable taxpayers. They also discuss the legal changes necessary to make local tax policies responsive to local economic conditions, and the...