Tax, Society & Culture

Last week, US Congressman Mike Quigley  (D-IL) introduced the Transparency in Government Act of 2014 , a bill "to amend the Ethics in G...

I am very pleased to be hosting international tax guru  Scott Wilkie at McGill Law next Wednesday, where he will deliver a talk on current ...

I'll be taking part in this symposium on corporate taxation next Tuesday at NYU. Here is the description: Tuesday, March 25, 2014  | ...

Tax Analysts is hosting a conference on March 27 in Washington DC that is of broad interest. The schedule includes National Taxpayer Advo...

Professor Art Cockfield has two upcoming talks of note, on the topic of "The Privacy Implications of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance...

Catherine Lu of McGill and Pablo Gilabert of Concordia will be presenting on the topic of global principles of distributive and labour jus...

Russell Haggar , a Sociology and of Government and Politics teacher in the UK, has put together a a visually alarming but very useful "...

This Sunday there will be a Foreign Account Tax Information Act (FATCA) Information Session at the Faculty of Law at McGill, featuring John...

I have just posted on SSRN a submission to the Canadian Finance Department co-authored by myself and Professor Arthur Cockfield  of Queen...

Alain Deneault, auteur de Noir Canada: Pillage, corruption et criminalité en Afrique, lance son nouveau livre, Paradis fiscaux : La filièr...

Business Insider reports on a recent Apple shareholder meeting , during which a representative from a decidedly far right thinktank  asked T...

A group of Canadians has put together a campaign to explore the constitutional violations posed by FATCA in Canada. Some of these issues we...

The OECD has released its " Common Reporting Standard ," a.k.a. a global "Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Acco...

Things have been exciting the past few days as a long-expected agreement on FATCA between Canada and the US was announced and Canada's D...

I am very pleased to be hosting internationally renowned tax expert Brian Arnold at McGill Law next Monday, where he will deliver a talk on ...

Ayelet Shachar , who previously published  The Birthright Lottery , a book about how citizenship is an inheritance that can make or break in...

Last October, Canadian MPs Ted Hsu and Scott Brison issued a set of questions to the Canadian government on FATCA (on which I consulted). To...

In this brief analysis, Taxpayer Rights, On and Offshore: the 2013 Taxpayer Advocate's Report to Congress , I looked at the problem crea...

This was published this back in December but I neglected to post it here: " What the Baucus Plan Reveals About Tax Competition " i...

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