In light of the UK Coalition Government's announced intention to reform APD (Air Passenger Duty), this article examines the design flaws making APD an inadequate environmental tax. By identifying the misconceived consequences and environmental inefficiencies of this blunt instrument, the need...

This article analyses a proposal for a new regulation of the European Parliament and of the European Council, which objective is to establish new guidelines to improve the operation of the taxation systems in the European Union as well as to support the fight against tax fraud, tax evasion, and...

FATCA is a US domestic tax policy that requires Foreign Financial Institutions around the world to provide the IRS information regarding their US clients. Recognizing this extraterritorial characteristic and the troubles associated with it, the US Treasury Department developed the...

This article presents an empirical survey of ECJ case law in the field of direct taxes from 1983 through 2013. This systematic retrospective uses aggregated metadata about all 267 cases which have been referred to the ECJ over that 30-year period

What rules of EU law in the field of direct taxes are clear and can be applied at the national level without additional interpretative guidance of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)? This article applies computational methods, and network science in particular, to analyse which...

The purpose of this article is to explore to what extent EU State aid rules may promote equity in international corporate taxation, whereby we focus on the notion of inter taxpayer equity. Upon the outlining of the analytical framework necessary to conduct such inquiry, we briefly describe the...

In light of the growing global trend towards combating tax avoidance and tax eva­sion, the exchange of tax information among Member States has become more topical than ever. This growing tax transparency often comes, however, at the cost of taxpayers' rights. The Berlioz case, decided by the...

This article investigates the potential for regulatory competition within the legal framework of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). By comparing the legal structures of the EU and the EEU, this article outlines the ways in which regulatory competition is embedded in each of the legal frameworks...

This Study contains the final version of the document elaborated by the IBFD Task Force on the Digital Economy as a submission to the European Commission in the framework of its 2021 Public Consultation on the possible introduction of an EU digital levy. Based on a reconstruction of the...