Countries that are moving from central planning to a market economy face unique problems in many areas, including taxation and public finance. The methods of collecting the revenue needed to fund government services were much different under a socialist system. Shifting to a market system...

Despite the importance of the capital gains tax preference, and the controversy it often evokes, there has been relatively little serious scholarly attention paid to the historical development of this highly significant tax provision. This Article seeks to move beyond the normative and...

The American historical profession has in recent years witnessed a significant revival of two subfields that were once thought to be nearly dead. Both intellectual history and what is often referred to today as the history of capitalism are flourishing. In some cases, the two fields have...

This article evaluates recent state cases upholding a retroactive amendment of a tax statute that reversed a judicial interpretation of the predecessor statute. Practitioners have criticized these cases because the seeming length of the statute's retroactivity has typically been lengthy. The...

Corporate income tax significantly affects the overall amount of government tax revenue. In spite of the attention being paid to many macroeconomic indicators (e.g. GDP, inflation, unemployment rate, etc.) influencing the total amount of tax revenues influence, we can hardly find empirical...

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....

The Constitution (One-Hundred and Twenty-Second Amendment) Bill, 2014 currently pending consideration of the Parliament seeks to usher a new indirect tax regime in India purported as the ‘Goods and Service Tax' The avowed intent of this Amendment Bill, in terms of its “Statement of Objects...

As the name suggests, “Consignment Taxes” imply taxes on consignment. In India these are also colloquially understood as taxes on ‘stock-transfer' of goods which is how most consignment of goods are effected in the country. These essentially relate to movement of goods from one territory...

Based on an analysis of 3,844 tax treaties, the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and its Commentaries (VCLT), and case law of various domestic and international courts.The current orthodoxy maintains that courts are not required to compare all language texts of a plurilingual treaty but...