Structural transformation has resulted in an increasing share of services in aggregate value-added in advanced and developing countries across the world. We analyze the impact of this shift into services on countries' efficiency in collecting the value-added tax (VAT). The analysis is based on...

Los fenómenos de concurrencia de tributos han ido multiplicándose en nuestro sistema tributario por el aumento de las figuras impositivas autonómicas. Como consecuencia, el principio de capacidad económica ha ido vaciándose de contenido en sucesivas sentencias del Tribunal Constitucional,...

El IIVTNU ha recibido y sigue recibiendo muchas críticas por su concurrencia con los distintos tributos que gravan las plusvalías, así como por el actual sistema de cálculo de las citadas plusvalías, que lo aleja del principio de capacidad económica. Muchos autores han propuesto su...

Spanish Abstract: El gran incremento de impuestos autonómicos que existe hoy, así como la gran cantidad de resoluciones judiciales del Tribunal Constitucional, de reciente aparición, hace necesario dedicar un estudio al análisis crítico del art. 6 de la LOFCA, especialmente después de la...

On average, current household incomes are less equal after state and local taxes are imposed than before. Wealthy families pay a significantly lower percentage of their income in state and local taxes on average than low- and middle- income households. Regressive state and local taxes not only...

Since 1950, Congress has limited the scope of the activities in which a nonprofit entity could participate, in part due to a controversy over a pasta company donated to the NYU School of Law by a couple of wealthy alumni. The pasta profits helped the school refurbish and expand, but competing...

In the current US tax system, capital gains are taxed at a lower rate than ordinary income. What does that mean for the sale of IP and intangible assets? Is it possible to convert ordinary income to capital gain by changing the form of the transaction? This article will address anomalies in the...

As the name suggests, “Consignment Taxes” imply taxes on consignment. In India these are also colloquially understood as taxes on ‘stock-transfer' of goods which is how most consignment of goods are effected in the country. These essentially relate to movement of goods from one territory...

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...

In 2016, Amazon decided that it was not responsible for collecting and remitting South Carolina sales and use tax for sales it made to South Carolina residents through its website if those sales were supplied by third-party merchants. The South Carolina Department of Revenue (DOR) was promptly...