Tax, Society & Culture

TJN links to what this very interesting conference, to be held in Linz, Austria in November:  The Political Economy of Offshore Jurisdi...

I sent this NPR story  to my tax students to both demonstrate that what they are learning has real world relevance and to remind t...

I love this website where you can see the tax consequences of baseball player salaries , with and without the expiry of the Bush tax cuts, p...

Apparently not, according to the US business lobbying industry.  They're putting pressur on Tim Geithner to put pressure on India as it ...

Just like its equivalent in the US, the Canada Revenue Agency seems to have begun to publish annual statistics on its mutual agreement progr...

I do a lot of research on tax treaties, tax treaty information exchange, and especially competent authority negotiations under the mutual ag...

From Stockholm International Peace Research Institute , latest military expenditure data.  But note that the USA isn't ev...

Matt Stoller suspects that Intuit's $9 million lobbying budget is spent in the pursuit of making it harder for people to file their ...

Enacted April 17, 1982, 30 years old today.  The  Charter proves to be Canada's gift to world , according to a couple of American con...

Well, or perhaps satisfied with your contribution to the greater good.   Miller McCune reports :  “Economists generally assume that h...

ProPublica reports on the Bank of New York foreign tax credit scheme called STARS (structured trust advantaged repackaged securities). ...

John Schmitt has a new paper entitled "Low Wage Lessons" [ pdf ] in which he says ": The United States is a Poor Model fo...

"Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money a...

My good friend John Prebble alerts me to two upcoming conferences of interest, one in the States and the other in Australia.  First, he rece...

The tax protestor movement is alive and well in Canada and getting some publicity just in time to serve as a warning to Canadian taxpayers r...

If you see your neighbor cheat and prosper, you will be more likely to try to follow suit, says Dan Ariely , based on an experiment he condu...

UNCTAD has issued a letter  decrying attempts by the OECD to silence it as a voice in the international economic development debate: ...

In 1812, they were mostly banks: Bank of the United States Bank of America State Bank Bank of Pennsylvania City Bank of New Y...

The activist-led movement to increase multinational tax disclosure is proving to be a full-employment program for natural resource industry ...

Is water a public good?  Privatizing water has led to all kinds of traumatic consequences in poor countries, with many complaints aimed at I...