This volume surveys all the issues that must be considered when designing a VAT. These include the how to best apply VAT to cross-border services, real property (immovable property), financial services, public bodies, and gambling and lotteries. Other design issues include the rate structure and...

New Zealand is currently the only member country of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) without a formal, comprehensive regime in place for taxing the capital gains made by its personal and corporate residents. Being the outlier is insufficient justification for...

This chapter seeks to provide an overview of the structure and policy of Australian income taxation for tax advisors and tax students. It sets out the criteria by which the provisions and practice of the Australian income tax system, described in the following chapters, can be evaluated. It will...

This article explores the compliance burden imposed by the value added tax (VAT), which has traditionally been recognised as one of the more onerous taxes so far as compliance by business taxpayers is concerned. It compares the UK's VAT compliance burden with that experienced elsewhere in the...

The nature of “goodwill” for tax purposes was an important issue in Australia long before the adoption of the Commonwealth income tax, with the relationship between goodwill and sales of business premises a central issue in colonial stamp duty assessments (and consequent litigation)....

In this article, the authors discuss a recent Australian High Court case and argue that Australia's legislative framework dictating the distinction between capital and current expenses is inadequate and poses unnecessary judicial roadblocks.The High Court of Australia's October 16 decision in...

World events in the first decade of this century led many to question the state of the international tax regime and the role it could play in solving national fiscal problems. In 2012, leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) set the OECD an ambitious agenda of working out how tax base erosion and...

This chapter examines the historical development of the formulary apportionment approach in key jurisdictions.From the time income taxes were first widely enacted, tax designers have been concerned with the question of how to allocate profits in transactions that incorporated labour, capital or...

In the last quarter of the 20th century, the concept of a tax expenditure budget emerged as the primary mode of analysis of concessions in tax laws in advanced economies. Under this approach, the fiscal cost of concessions is calculated and lost revenue is treated as the equivalent of revenue...

Tim Edgar's passing in December 2016 dealt a severe blow to tax scholarship in Canada and globally, not to mention being a sad loss for this journal, to which he was a contributor for over three decades. Tim's books, journal articles, and book chapters spanned a wide spectrum of tax policy...