A central premise of tax scholarship of the last thirty years has been the greater mobility of capital than labour. Recently, scholars such as Edward Kleinbard have recommended that the US adopt a variant of the “dual income tax” model used by the Scandinavian countries, under which income...

When countries' economies were relatively closed, tax systems reflected purely and exclusively national characteristics. Policymakers worried about the capacity of their tax systems to generate needed revenue, about the ability of their tax administrations to administer the national taxes, and...

The author argues that the Obama Administrations 2011 international tax proposals represent a very cautious first step toward making US multinationals pay their fair share of the tax burden and that coordination with our FDI partners would allow the Administration to go even further.

This Perspective explores the implications for the home countries of large MNEs of the agreement reached by over 140 countries in 2021 to enact a corporate minimum tax of 15%. It argues that the corporate minimum tax complements the trend to reduce the negative impact of unfettered globalization...

Introduction / Reuven S. Avi-Yonah & Michael Lang -- European constitutional intergration : the case of direct taxation / Gianluigi Bizioli & Claudio Sacheto -- There is life in the old dog yet : horizontal comparability and the establishment of the internal market / Michael Lang --...

Capital gains taxes -- a comparative survey / Michael Littlewood -- The impact of economic theory on capital gains tax reform proposals / David White -- International aspects of capital gains taxation / Craig Elliffe -- Australia / Ann O'Connell -- Canada / David G. Duff -- China / Yan Xu --...