Tax, Society & Culture

From FDL , highlights: Making Congress and their staffers pay the full cost of their insurance is fine with me because that is how the l...

I posted this on Twitter yesterday but for those not of the twitterverse, you may enjoy this guide to tax opinion standards , posted recentl...

Australia is working on transparency and information sharing , and is seeking feedback by April 24 (this Wednesday): On 4 February 2013, ...

I posted a draft of this paper on SSRN some time ago but neglected to post it here, so here it is. I argue that because governments chase ...

The story is that the Canadian government recently set up food trucks in Mexico in order to promote "Canadian cuisine," which the ...

John Ruggie has published Just Business: Multinational Corporations and Human Rights .  Abstract: One of the most vexing human rights...

Norway signed an IGA with the US Treasury on April 15.  I blacklined the Norway agreement against the Model 1 FATCA, (you can download the c...

The Canadian Tax Foundation will hold a lunchtime conference on May 1st in Montreal on  The Fight Against Abusive Tax Planning at the Federa...

I wish I could express surprise. I can, however, muster some dismay: The Senate has severely scaled back the Stock Act , the law to st...

Tax authorities are embarrassed by the ICIJ leak and they want the source data before anything more embarrassing hits the front page ne...

Surprise--despite determined efforts to stop the process, the US has pushed through approval for the new Detroit-Windsor Bridge.   As you...

One line in the budget itself : Provide for reciprocal reporting of information in connection with the implementation of FATCA .............

Over at Philanthropy blog  Lucy Bernholz alerts us to an upcoming conference in DC  (to be webcast) on " The Charitable Deduction in Am...

Cahuzac's denials and ultimate admission about hiding money offshore while serving as the anti-evasion officer-in-chief is very embarras...

Lily Kahng & Mary Louise Fellows recently published Costly Mistakes: Undertaxed Business Owners and Overtaxed Workers , in which the...

Victoria Ferauge explains in as clear a way as may be possible why it is important to understand what people mean when they talk about citi...

This is rich. The US wants the OECD to not go overboard on the BEPS thing.  From Tax Analysts [ gated ], Treasury International Tax Counsel ...

Isn't it astonishing that at the very moment the USA is twisting arms the world over ostensibly to crack down on tax havens and the eros...

Recently the Washington Journal on Law Technology & the Arts issued a symposium issue entitled " Mobile Money Symposium 2013 ....

Global Witness issued this must-watch video this week, which demonstrates how leaders steal from their own people with the help of lawyers ...