Sunday, September 29, 2013

Cliff Fleming presenting tomorrow at McGill Law

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The 4th Annual  Tax Policy Colloquium  at McGill Law continues tomorrow with a presentation by Professor  Clifton J. Fleming  on the topic o...

How to Buy a US Ambassadorship, and How Much to Pay

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The recent news about the newly appointed US ambassador to Canada, Bruce Heyman--described as "A veteran Goldman Sachs & Co. exec...
Sunday, September 22, 2013

Reuven Avi-Yonah presenting tomorrow at McGill Law

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The 4th Annual Tax Policy Colloquium at McGill Law commences tomorrow with a presentation by Professor  Reuven-Avi Yonah  on the topic of t...
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Thursday, September 19, 2013

Chasing expatriate corporations not going so well, but raising interesting questions of residence

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Lee Sheppard has an update in Tax Notes [ gated ] on the US "anti-inversion" rules--designed to treat corporations that in effect ...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Recent Scholarship of Note on Normative and Practical Challenges in Corporate Taxation

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Yariv Brauner recently posted " Whither Choice of Entity ," in which he examines choice of entity and policy implications in suppo...
Saturday, September 14, 2013

Russell Brand on governance as theatre and why MNCs get all the tax breaks

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Russell Brand got invited to the GQ awards, made a joke about Hugo Boss' history serving Nazi troops, and then got ejected. I would neve...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Razin on Tax and Migration Competition

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Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka have a new paper up on NBER called Migration into the Welfare State , in which they survey the literature on th...

GAO to IRS: issue guidance on Bitcoin to safeguard tax compliance

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Not too long ago, the US Government Accountability Office issued a report entitled " Virtual Economies and Currencies: Additional IRS G...
Monday, September 9, 2013

McGill Tax Policy Colloquium 2013

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This fall marks the fourth installment of the McGill University Faculty of Law Tax Policy Colloquium.  This year’s colloquium features a num...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Lavigne & VanRybroek on Language, Communication and Access to Justice

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This recently posted article by Michele Lavigne and Gregory VanRybroek, entitled ' He Got in My Face so I Shot Him': How Defendants...
Monday, August 19, 2013

Here is the only reason why Ted Cruz's citizenship is interesting.

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It is not whether he's natural born and therefore eligible for the presidency. It is that Ted Cruz has suggested that he did not even re...
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Friday, August 16, 2013

Collected Scholarly Work by Ivor Richardson being posted to SSRN

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The Victoria University of Wellington SSRN Legal Research Papers has begun to publish the collected scholarly work of the Right Honourable S...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Latest IRS Statistics of Income on Individual Tax Returns

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The IRS has issued its latest SOI reports, including the  2011 Individual Income Tax Returns (Publication 1304) .  These are always interest...
Monday, August 12, 2013

How Starbucks Lost its Social License--And Paid £20 Million to Get it Back

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I have a new column in Tax Notes International  [gated] today, pdf available  here , about Starbucks's £20 million promise to the UK af...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Caterpillar v Comm'r and the Rule of Law in International Tax

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James P. Fuller has an interesting summary of the recently-filed Caterpillar case in his latest U.S. Tax Review [ gated ], in which he lamen...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

What the banks’ three-year war on Dodd-Frank looks like

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A fascinating account from the Sunlight Foundation of the gutting of a regulatory initiative by the kind of methodical persistence that can...

Taxcast on unilateral and multilateral approaches to the problem of base erosion

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I contributed to this month's Tackle Tax Haven's  podcast , together with the very interesting Krishen Mehta , formerly of PWC and n...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

Quebec's governance crisis continues: mayor who resigned under fraud charge gets $267K severance

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There is something seriously broken in a governance system that produces this result, as reported by  the CBC : The City of Montreal has c...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

TJN on the rule of law and the forthcoming OECD report on base-erosion

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The OECD is expected to release its plan to implement its anti-base-erosion project this Friday, and the Tax Justice Network has issued a p...
Friday, July 12, 2013

FATCA delayed again, this time Treasury giving itself 6 months to get the house in order. Lesson: internationalizing a unilateral legal regime is really difficult.

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Treasury issued a new Notice 2013-43 today, pushing the withholding deadline to July 1, 2014 (was January 1 2014), the portal opening to A...
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