The Aloha State has been on the front line of justice for decades, including tax justice. This is the story of a two-decade-plus journey of the Hawaii earned income tax credit — including how the state might better serve financially challenged residents as they navigate the global pandemic’s...

Spanish Abstract: El gran incremento de impuestos autonómicos que existe hoy, así como la gran cantidad de resoluciones judiciales del Tribunal Constitucional, de reciente aparición, hace necesario dedicar un estudio al análisis crítico del art. 6 de la LOFCA, especialmente después de la...

Does the reliance on diversified tax structure enhance resilience to fiscal risks? This paper gives an answer to this question by proposing a new cross-country tax revenue diversification index (RDI). The RDI builds on the Theil index, and unlike the few existing tax diversification indices,...

There is a growing debate on the relative merits of universal and targeted social assistancetransfers in achieving income redistribution objectives. While the benefits of targeting areclear, i.e., a larger poverty impact for a given transfer budget or lower fiscal cost for a givenpoverty impact,...

The ever-increasing digitalization of businesses has accelerated the need to address the many shortcomings and unresolved issues within the international corporate income tax system. In particular, the customer or 'user'-through their online activities-is now considered by many as being a...

One of the consequences of globalization is the increased openness of economies and the interdependence of states. Tax competition between states is inevitable. In parallel, the Commission has enacted the State aid rules due to the risk that aid can cause a distortion in competition between...

Since COVID-19 has forced many governments to restrict travel and impose quarantine requirements, telework has become a way of life. The shift towards teleworking is raising tax concerns for workers who work for employers located in another state than where they live. Most source states where...

On average, current household incomes are less equal after state and local taxes are imposed than before. Wealthy families pay a significantly lower percentage of their income in state and local taxes on average than low- and middle- income households. Regressive state and local taxes not only...

Would better state institutions increase tax collection, or would higher tax collection help improve state institutions? In the absence of conclusive guidance from theory, this paper searches for an empirical answer to this question, using a panel dataset covering 110 non-resource-rich countries...