Valuation issues have long posed challenges for the U.S. federal tax system. This is not just because of questions about what technique will most accurately value particular types of property. A key problem for tax administration is that taxpayers have an incentive to claim erroneous,...

Historically, firms were primarily taxed in jurisdictions where they had a physical presence. Increasingly, firms find themselves subject to taxes in jurisdictions where they have customers, but no physical presence. Despite now having legal authority to tax remote firms, many jurisdictions are...

Because policymakers may consider the state of the economy when setting taxes, endogeneity bias can arise in regression models that estimate relationships between economic variables and taxes. This paper quantifies the policy endogeneity bias and estimates the impact of R&D tax incentives on R&D...

The reform to replace the Business Tax (BT) with the VAT is the largest tax reform initiative in China since 1994. This article assesses the first two years of the reform from a tax policy perspective. It shows that the government has tried to preempt resistance to reform through highly unusual...

This paper presents the first comprehensive analysis of what judges have written about forensic accounting experts in federal and state court decisions. The earliest opinion was issued in 1982, but the majority of the cases (31 out of 40) were decided by federal and state courts during the...

The term ‘trade’ is an important concept in the Income Tax Act, 58 of 1962 (the ‘Act’). Two central tenants of the Act are the concepts of gross income and deductions. On the one hand, trade is particularly relevant in a deductions context. On the other hand, trade also has a role to...

In Commissioner, South African Revenue Service v Brummeria Renaissance (Pty) Ltd 2007 (6) SA 601 (SCA) (Brummeria) the court held that the interest-free component of the loan between the parties was an amount which had accrued to the taxpayer, Brummeria Renaissance (Pty) Ltd. Moreover, the court...

The 1990s brought the announcement that the South African National Treasury plans to rewrite the entire Income Tax Act 58 of 1962. The rationale for this ambitious endeavour was founded on the practical difficulties encountered with applying an Act that what was little more than a collection of...

The paper provides estimates of the long-run, tax-adjusted, user cost elasticity of capital (UCE) in a small open economy, exploiting three sources of variation in Canadian tax policy: across provinces, industries, and years. Estimates of the UCE with Canadian data are less prone to the...