How tax practitioners approach ethical dilemmas remains generally unexplored in academic literature. We use here Rest’s original Defining Issues Test (Development in judging moral issues. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, <CitationRef CitationID="CR51">1979</CitationRef>; Moral development. Advances in research and theory. New...</citationref>

This paper forms one of a series examining aspects of transfer pricing from a Japanese perspective. In earlier work the authors examined prevalent allegations that global companies, especially Japanese multinationals, operated transfer pricing policies to the deliberate disadvantage of host...

This paper examines the difficulties facing tax authorities in valuing cross-border flows from a transactions based analysis, in conditions where intangibles and services are important and where the multinational firm concerned is operating a system in which group-wide economic functions...

This paper examines the issue of transfer pricing with particular reference to Japanese multinational companies against the background of recent press reports alleging the misuse of this pricing mechanism to locate artificially group profits in countries where a tax advantage may be obtained....

This General Report presents the results of a comparative law research project on the topic of 'retroactive tax legislation' by the European Association of Tax Law Professors (EATLP). The General Report provides a comparative law analysis based on the information in the various 'national reports'

Tax systems biased to powerful and wealthy (corporate) citizens contributed to economic stagnation, increasing inequality of income and wealth, and erosion of social cohesion, democratic legitimacy and public trust. Why and to what extent requires the foundational nature of taxes corporations to...