Tax, Society & Culture

Jesse Eisinger of ProPublica has a dealbook entry today,  A Revolving Door in Washington With Spin, but Less Visibility , with insightfu...

Edward Abbey said “growth for growth’s sake is the ideology of the cancer cell": From a series called  Illuminating Quotes, Visuali...

Gaius Publius is upset with bipartisan support for Fix the Debt, and points out the class-based solidarity of the rich (which of course ...

Someone could write a PhD dissertation on the fiscal devolution of Detroit and the role of taxpayer morale. Between the below story and t...

Over at SCOTUSblog I've got a  recap of the arguments in yesterday's hearing on the PPL Corp foreign tax credit case.  The justices...

I'm pleased to have been part of the February 2013 Taxcast from Naomi Fowler and the Tax Justice Network  In this edition of the taxcas...

US tax reform is so big and so bad it needs 11 working groups to handle it all!  From the Camp/Levin press release: Each of the 11 groups ...

I have no idea why these remarks ended up in a State Dept email distribution I got today, as they date back to a year ago, but they are fas...

I've got a post up over at SCOTUSblog on the PPL Corp case , which involves the 1997 UK windfall tax imposed on energy companies that h...

Lee Sheppard has a column today on the OECD's new-found vision for reversing course on the international regime of tax base erosion it c...

The ACA representative who attended the OECD public briefing on FATCA posted a comprehensive description here . The substance of the briefin...

Today the State Department hosted the first meeting of the US Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Advisory Committee, the "m...

Meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance beginning at 8:45 in Room 7-52, 131 Queen Street, featuring a fascinating line-up: Tax Evasi...

From the FT: US approves $18bn Cnooc bid for Nexen . That headline struck me as odd--why would one non-US company acquiring another non-US c...

And they do it with a big sign : The protestors are calling themselves "Flip the Debt."  From truth-out: While speaking at...

My latest column in Tax Analysts' Tax Notes International is here .  I argue that the IGAs have a dubious legal pedigree because they ar...

For the life of me I cannot understand the FT's headline, which reads " Brussels fights US data privacy push ."  No, it's ...

***updated** A development on the public briefing. After being turned away, Victoria Ferauge has now been given the green light to attend ...

Yariv Brauner and Miranda Stewart have posted their introductory chapter to Tax, Law and Development , a book to which I am contributing wit...

Gregory C. Shaffer has a new book of interest:  Transnational Legal Ordering and State Change . Abstract: Law can no longer be viewed...