Thursday, September 20, 2018

Canada implements the MLI on BEPS; Will Parliament Take a Nap?

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With the return of Canada's Parliament to business this week, debate theoretically should take place on Bill C-82, An Act to implement a...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

2018 Tax Policy Colloquium at Mcgill Law

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I'm very happy to announce the 2018 McGill Tax Policy Colloquium, which will take an interdisciplinary approach to tax policy analysis. ...
Thursday, June 14, 2018

Introduction to Tax Policy Theory

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Every year I make this primer, an Introduction to Tax Policy Theory , available to my tax policy students (and otherwise send it whenever I...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Taxing Income Where Value is Created: draft and powerpoint

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I have posted a draft of a work in progress,  Taxing Income Where Value is Created , which is co-authored by  Laurens van Apeldoorn  (Leiden...
Friday, April 6, 2018

For female law students: 5 warning signs your important interview with that law firm won't yield you a job offer

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[Update: I understand that some find this post to be (1) making a causal claim that is (2) sexist or misses sexism as a main causal factor...
Saturday, March 10, 2018

Jensen on the costly politics of tax competition

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Nate Jensen recently published an op-ed of note, asking " Why Are Your State Tax Dollars Subsidizing Corporations? " Nate has stud...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Today at McGill: Law and the Blockchain: A Crash Course

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A full house expected for today's event, but it's not too late to join us if you're in Montreal!
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Crisan and McKenzie on R&D Subsidies in Canada

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The latest edition of the Canadian Tax Journal [ gated ] has a nice article by Daria Crisan and Kenneth J McKenzie that documents Canada...
Monday, December 4, 2017

Today at McGill: Brooks on Comparative Tax Law: Development of the Discipline

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Today at McGill, Professor Kim Brooks will present her current work in progress as the final speaker of the 2017 tax policy colloquium at Mc...
Friday, December 1, 2017

Next week at McGill: Van Apeldoorn on Taxation, Exploitation, and Human Rights

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On December 6, Prof. Laurens van Apeldoorn of the University of Leiden will present a working paper at McGill, hosted by the Centre for H...
Monday, November 20, 2017

Today at McGill: Mehrotra on value added taxation

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Today, Ajay Mehrotra , Northwestern University and the American Bar Foundation, will present "The VAT Laggard: A Comparative History of...
Monday, November 6, 2017

Today at McGill: Tillotson on the Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy

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On Monday November 6, Shirley Tillotson of Dalhousie University will present her new book,   Give and Take: The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Ri...
Saturday, October 21, 2017

Monday at McGill: Pichhadze on Transfer Pricing and GAAR in Canada

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On Monday October 23, Amir Pichhadze , Lecturer at Deakin University, Australia, will present his work in progress, entitled "Canada’s ...

Does a country's willingness to exchange tax info alter the character of its trade in services?

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Delimatsis and Hoekman have posted National Tax Regulation, International Standards and the GATS: Argentina—Financial Services , of interest...
Sunday, September 17, 2017

100 Years of Tax Law in Canada

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2017 marks the 100 th anniversary of Canada’s federal income tax. In commemoration of this milestone, a half-day symposium will be con...
Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Burgers & Mosquera on Corporate Tax, BEPS, and Developing Countries

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Irene Burgers (University of Groningen - Faculty of Economics and Business) and   Irma Mosquera Valderrama (IBFD) recently posted Corpor...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017

100 Years of Tax in Canada: McGill Tax Policy Colloquium 2017

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2017 marks the centennial of Canada's federal income tax, so it is appropriate that this year’s tax policy colloquium at McGill Law wil...
Friday, July 14, 2017

Assessing BEPS: Origins, Standards, and Responses

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If you are an IFA member or are attending IFA this fall, you can now download the full IFA 2017 Cahiers . The general report for Subject 1 o...
Saturday, June 17, 2017

Tax Sovereignty in the BEPS Era

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Kluwer law has recently published Tax Sovereignty in the BEPS Era , a collection of contributions I co-edited with Sergio Rocha, in which we...