Tax, Society & Culture

Leslie Green asks  What is Freedom for?  Answer: Two conceptions of the value of political freedom are popular. According to one, fre...

Ecuador has a new law with the title " Income Redistribution for Social Expenditure ," which will impose new taxes on financia...

It's a question I ask every intro tax class, and so I am always on the lookout for stories  like this one , about a small city in Gre...

Here is an interesting new book, by Jacqueline Mowbray:  Linguistic Justice: International Law and Language Policy (Oxford 2012).  From...

Matt Stoller at NC  points out the ubiquitous presence of corporate lobbying when it comes to tax policy: Throughout the months of Nov...

Sungmun Choi asks, “ Do Interest Groups Reward Politicians for their Votes in the Legislature? ” And answers: of course they do.  Choi e...

£440M hidden in the Caymans to avoid tax ; $ 500M given to charity .  In my view this is no coincidence; the two events are inextricably int...

Here are some recent papers of interest: On the power and role of the state: Bernard Schneider, The End of Taxation without End: A N...

Here are 81 pages of "guidance notes" from HMRC on how the UK will implement its IGA, and here is a story that says more will be ...

From Flowing Data , a link to this interactive chart where you can input your annual income and then see what you would have earned and pai...

There seems to be a surge of articles on arbitration-as-law lately: the latest, Judging Lite: How Arbitrators Use and Create Precedent ...

ILR posted the latest issue of International Studies Review , which has several articles of interest: Richard J. Harknett & Hasan...

TJN posts this report from Global Financial Integrity, showing that Crime, corruption, and tax evasion cost the developing world $85...

Kevin Jon Heller linked to international relations as depicted by cats , which I should have avoided.  But then there were these ones d...

Taxprof links to a Citizens for Tax Justice report  (pdf) that says Fortune 500 corporations are holding at least $1.6 trillion in prof...

International Law Reports posts the latest issue of Global Society , a special issue on the topic of Cosmopolitanism and Global Citizen...

Simon Lester notes a deluge of cases: "they keep coming, and it may be starting to strain the WTO's resources." He cites ...

Professor Sol Picciotto has a guest post over at TJN today, in which he talks about the viability of unitary taxation for multinational...

It really does not pay to start getting interested in FATCA because it raises all sorts of questions to which I really don't know the an...

NPR had a story not too long ago that is of interest, not (or not only) because it is always fun to think about how the world would be a be...