Technological advancements are playing a transformative role in curtailing the need for labor. These very same forces are catapulting capital in the form of robotics, machinery, and intellectual property to the economic forefront. In virtually every sphere of human existence, labor's decline and...

OECD and EU have unsuccessfully sought for some decades to rein in what they perceive as “harmful tax competition.” Despite occasional publicity from spectacular (and, in most cases, spectacularly unsuccessful) exemplary enforcement actions, the amount of taxes paid by corporations continues...

The principal purpose of this paper is to derive an expected value measure of the tax underreporting rate given only tax authority enforcement data. The main result is that the expected value measure of the underreporting rate is a modified geometric mean function of the audit rate and the...

Since 1980, the United States has taxed U.S. real property gains of foreign investors. A nonresident must pay tax on the capital gain from the sale of U.S. real property or rights in U.S. real property, as well as on the sale of shares in non-publicly held domestic corporations that hold...

In this report, I argue that the inversion situation is more nuanced, complex, and ambiguous than Edward D. Kleinbard acknowledges, and I challenge Kleinbard's claim that U.S. multinationals are on a tax par with their foreign competitors

For decades now, corporate inversions have been the topic of an ongoing debate between legislators, practitioners, and academics. Since the first inversion in 1982, while often arguing on the right methods, policy, and ways, Congress, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”), and...

Levy of Service Tax under the positive list regime was fraught with constitutional and legal challenges; chief amongst those being the contours and width of the taxable service in question. An appraisal of the disputes surrounding the construction of IPR service positions it as a quintessential...

Critical to a country's tax revenue base is taxpayer compliance, with Allingham and Sandmo's model of tax compliance predicting that if detection is likely and penalties are severe, people will be more compliant. However, the mixed evidence about the deterrence effect has been attributed to such...

Executives use a variety of manipulative games to maximize the value of their gifts, including backdating, spring-loading, bullet-dodging and insider information. We find that executives exploit a legal loophole to backdate their gifts. Stock prices rise abnormally about 6% during the one-year...