Tax, Society & Culture

The grassroots group responsible for launching the FATCA-based litigation in Canada has issued a public call for witnesses . They are lookin...

Tax Analysts has published my talk on taxpayer rights and citizenship-based taxation as enforced via FATCA , which I gave in November at the...

I recently sat down with Bob Goulder of Tax Analysts to talk about FATCA, citizenship-based taxation, renunciation, and taxpayer rights. ...

Senator Rand Paul has been holding up tax treaties for several years but he apparently stepped away from the Foreign Relations Committee yes...

The IRS faces constant funding pressure from Congress, despite becoming a victim of constant mission creep thanks to Congressional mandates ...

Jinyan Li of Osgoode Hall recently posted a paper of interest: China and BEPS: From Norm-Taker to Norm-Shaker . Here is the abstract:  Thi...

The Spiegel Sohmer Tax Policy Colloquium at McGill continues today with a presentation by Daniel Shaviro , Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation...

Tax Coop Montreal will be taking place tomorrow at the Musee des Beaux Arts in Montreal. It promises to be an action-packed day. Here is th...

The Spiegel Sohmer Tax Policy Colloquium at McGill University continues today with a presentation by Richard Murphy of Tax Research LLP and ...

The Global Justice Program at Yale University is currently hosting a conference exploring the post-2015 agenda for human rights and global j...

I'm very pleased to participate in Brooklyn Law School's annual international tax symposium today. This year's theme is Reconsid...

On Nov 3, there will be a big conference in Montreal on the topic of tax cooperation and competition  with presentations by political, ...

Canada's federal election unfolded last night with a decisive victory for the Liberal Party under the leadership of Justin Trudeau. Camp...

I recently published " Interpretation or Override? Introducing the Hybrid Tax Agreement ." Here is the abstract: In the effort t...

Over the summer, I wrote a column on the ongoing EU state aid investigation into Ireland's tax practices involving Apple . The recent ne...

Over the summer, Jeffery Kadet published an article of interest,  Attacking Profit Shifting: The Approach Everyone Forgets , in which he arg...

Art Cockfield has posted a new paper on SSRN, Big Data and Tax Haven Secrecy , forthcoming Florida Tax Review. The article sets out research...

This week at the University of Michigan Law School, Reuven Avi-Yonah and I are co-hosting an academic workshop on the topic of citizenship a...

The Spiegel Sohmer Tax Policy Colloquium at McGill University continues today with a presentation by Steven Dean on “SE(c)(3): A Catalyst fo...

The Federal Court of Canada (Martineau J.) issued a decision in the Canadian FATCA IGA litigation on September 16, ruling against the plaint...