Sunday, December 29, 2013

Taxing the Corporation: Home Depot and the State's Claim of Right

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The Arizona Court of Appeals recently issued a decision in the Home Depot case , which involves determining when the state has jurisdiction ...
Sunday, December 8, 2013

FATCA Q&A--A Work in Progress

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Just a few questions I get a lot, together with some of the answers I typically give. This is not an exhaustive account of anything, nor is...
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Thursday, December 5, 2013

Call for US Citizenship-based tax/FATCA stories

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If you are in the Montreal area and would like to speak to the media about your experience as a Canadian who is or was affected by US citize...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

Monday at McGill: Diane Ring on Sovereign Harmony, Domestic Discord

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The 4th Annual Tax Policy Colloquium at McGill Law concludes Monday with a presentation by Professor Diane Ring of Boston College on her pa...
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Monday, November 18, 2013

From John Prebble : Teaching Tax in a Sculpture Park

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John Prebble (customarily at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) sends over this post from Austria, where he is currently teac...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Must read: @Salon on Lobbyists Posing as Think Tanks

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This is a must read . My first reaction was: this is not new, this is old hat. But the intentional misleading might be categorized as new. I...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

I'm talking FATCA: Listen tomorrow morning on CBC's the Current

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Tomorrow I'll be talking about how the US crackdown on offshore tax cheats via FATCA impacts ordinary Canadians with US ties by virtue o...
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Sunday, November 10, 2013

Tomorrow at McGill: Tillotson on the historical use of morality in tax policy

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The 4th Annual Tax Policy Colloquium at McGill Law continues Monday with a presentation by Professor Shirley Tillotson of Dalhousie Univers...
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Rhetoric as Intellectual Anaesthetic in Tax Politics: Guest post by Marco Garofalo

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Advocates of tax policy reform use common rhetorical themes to link their preferred policies to desired descriptors. The most common of thes...
Friday, November 8, 2013

Corporate Tax Breaks to Which No One in Gov Pays Any Attention

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It is quite extraordinary how much taxpayer money can be spent through expenditures that face no systemic evaluation on the merits. The GAO ...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

Tomorrow at McGill Law: Sagit Leviner presents on the Three Goals of Taxation

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The 4th Annual Tax Policy Colloquium at McGill Law continues Monday with a presentation by Professor Sagit Leviner of Ono Academic College,...

OECD public meeting on tax-base erosion project: US MNCs hope to 'participate'

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Reuters reports that the OECD will have a "public meeting" in Paris on Nov 12-13, at which "companies will get to voice the...
Monday, October 21, 2013

Rosenzweig on Corporate Tax Incidence

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Last week I posted the JCT paper that outlines their approach to measuring the incidence of the corporate tax, in which  Further on the que...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Global Tax Expert Database?

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I've been slowly working through a couple of manuscript reviews and in one of them I started thinking about the problem of fly-in expert...

Measuring Corporate Tax Incidence: Update from the Joint Committee on Tax

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The JCT released a report yesterday laying out its new method for measuring corporate tax incidence, Modeling The Distribution Of Taxes On B...
Monday, October 14, 2013

The Shutdown and a Tea Party Tax Paradigm Shift: Guest Post by Marco Garofalo

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One of the many benefits of hosting a tax policy colloquium is that the students become deeply engaged in grappling with tax policy principl...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Morriss and Freyer: Creating Cayman as an Offshore Financial Center

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Andrew Morriss and Tony Freyer recently posted an article, " Creating Cayman as an Offshore Financial Center: Structure and Strategy Si...