This letter to the Treasury and the IRS is in response to Notice 2019-30's request for recommendations for the 2019-2020 Priority Guidance Plan on tax issues that should be addressed through regulations, revenue rulings, revenue procedures, notices, and other published administrative guidance....

Paying taxes is a cost of doing business. The looters (or public servants, depending on your perspective) must be paid and tax proceeds must be distributed to various groups and individuals, both worthy and unworthy. But tax expense includes more than just the amount of taxes that must be paid....

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) under Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Action 2 indicated that tax arbitrage via hybrid mismatch arrangements “result in a substantial erosion of the taxable bases of the countries concerned” and “have an overall...

Tax evasion is widespread in transition economies. There are two main reasons: the lack of infrastructure to collect taxes and the widespread belief on the part of taxpayers that there is little or no moral duty to pay taxes. This paper reports the results of a survey on the ethics of tax...

In his observations on countering tax avoidance, Sir Ivor concludes that a clearly formulated, well understood and workable general anti-avoidance provision is an essential feature of a modern income tax system. But it is not the peg on which the whole system should rest. The practical answer...

This literature review will summarize research into factors affecting views on tax evasion as well as give a brief overview of what tax evasion is. It addresses tax evasion, tax compliance as well as research on perceptions of tax ethics in different countries as well as the findings of previous...

In 1944, Martin Crowe, a Catholic priest, wrote a doctoral dissertation titled The Moral Obligation of Paying Just Taxes. His dissertation summarized and analyzed 500 years of theological and philosophical debate on this topic, which identified three basic philosophical positions on the issue....

Using data that was gathered as part of a much larger study on human beliefs and values, the present study examines the opinions on the ethics of tax evasion that were gathered from a wide demographic of respondents in Egypt, Iran and Jordan. Comparisons are made between the responses from each...