Tax, Society & Culture

I've expressed doubts before about whether it makes sense to turn to private companies to provide public goods, but I missed this paper ...

Kevin Roose published  The Sharing Economy Isn’t About Trust, It’s About Desperation in NY Magazine last week, in response to the Wired Sto...

Diane Ring has a post up over at Jotwell reviewing Mai'a Cross' Rethinking Epistemic Communities Twenty Years Later , which was pub...

The Times of Monaco: Toward Tax Exemption for French born in Monaco , changes coming in France's citizenship-based tax regime for resid...

Josh Blank has a new paper available on U.S. tax penalties, which is of broad interest given the increasing role of penalties in corralling...

The European Commission is seeking consultation  through 3 June 2014 on the problems faced by "cross-border citizens."  They desir...

I am pretty sure the Revenue Rule will not survive the current era, so this paper by Kye Handy is of interest. Abstract: The Revenue Rule...

Here is an interesting development for FATCA : a case in which a small Dutch bank pre-emptively shuttered the accounts of 150 persons in ord...

This is a novel idea , at least, new to me: Over the last 10 years, Slovakia’s revenue from value-added taxes, a type of sales tax, has d...

Andrew Morriss presents a webcourse of interest, starting May 5. The objective: "explore the rich history of the islands and talk to ...

Today's NYT has an article entitled " Buyers Find Tax Break on Art: Let it Hang Awhile in Oregon ." The artful dodge is accomp...

We invite paper proposals for a  Tax Justice and Human Rights Research Collaboration Symposium ,  to be held at the McGill Faculty of Law, ...

In light of the current sacrificing of Caterpillar on the altar of political posturing by lawmakers who are ultimately r esponsible for de...

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 "...