Tax, Society & Culture

From the FT this week, a story on John Paulson's $100 million donation to the Central Park Conservancy.  The article focuses on the idea...

Allison posted an extremely interesting article discussing capital flight from Africa (there were two studies, one for North Africa and one ...

TJN reports on a paper by Léonce Ndikumana and James K. Boyce,  Capital Flight from Sub-Saharan African Countries : Updated Estimates,...

When the list gets too long to count , will we finally come to see that tax dodging is in the fabric of the income tax as practiced by mo...

From Salon : A report from the American Association of University Women (AAUW) flagged by Raw Story found that a gender earning gap us...

Believe it or not, for a tax professor I actually have not been following the tax plans of the two candidates for president very closely ......

From NPR's Ask a Banker, here is a great primer on derivatives from Matt Levine.  Excerpt: I will tell you what a derivative is,...

From the Telegraph : "Goldman Sachs has joined in a much better-than-expected third quarter for Wall Street, raising the prospect it...

A former UW law student of mine has published this brief explanation of the employer's responsibility under the Affordable Care Act.  ...

In Through a Glass Darkly: What Can We Learn About a U.S. Multinational Corporation's International Operations from Its Financial Statem...

Here in Quebec, we have perhaps the highest tax burden in North America, and it appears we are using a lot of that money to line the pockets...

A free ebook , of interest. h/t, Richard Murphy .

Prepare yourselves--the Supreme Court will soon release its decision in the Glaxo SmithKline case.  The case record is here .  But as a quic...

Walmart workers in California walked out last week to protest unfair labor practices, and now a  nationwide strike  is under works.  Th...

So wrong!   Cheating F1 team wins the right to deduct its fines from its taxes .   Notice the prominent vodafone logo ?  Yes,  that Vodaf...

Professor  Arthur Cockfield  will be at McGill next Monday, where he will present his paper on FATCA as part of our  Tax Policy Colloquium S...

Richard Wagner, a Montreal native and a graduate of uOttawa Law, was sworn in today as Canada's newest Supreme Court Justice,* and I ask...

This is a special shout out to tax policy at UW, fall 2011-slash-international tax spring 2012, you know who you are.  I am sorry to info...

NPR has a story on the college payoff, showing that while students pay much more for a college education in the U.S. than they d...

What does it mean to be entitled to something?  It used to mean you earned it, and are owed it, and it would be unfair not to give it to ...