This paper presents a simple two-country model with mobile capital and immobile labour, in which there are two classes of individuals, the workers and the capital owners. A source-based tax on capital income is used to finance transfers to workers. If the two countries are homogeneous in all...

Most of the literature on presumptive taxation limits its application to the less-developed economies. In this paper I argue that presumptive taxes are well entrenched in the modern world, although usually not classified as such. Presumptive taxes can take many forms, and can be incorporated in...

During the transformation process, the reform of public finances (in particular the tax system) is crucial for Georgia. There are a lot of proposals and suggestions in the financial literature concerning the introduction of tax systems in transition countries. Individual taxes or the entire tax...

Getting tax and transfer systems to efficiently deliver sufficient revenues to achieve macroeconomic targets, address goals in re-distribution and social welfare, encourage employment, accommodate business-competitiveness concerns and incorporate environmental issues is difficult. In Australia,...

In seinem Kommentar setzt sich Dieter Dziadkowski mit dem Vorschlag zum »Bayern-Tarif«, den Möglichkeiten zur Regionalisierung der Steuertarife und der kalten Progression auseinander.

The tax-free treatment of like-kind exchanges presents one of tax law's most compelling equity conundrums. Tax law generally does not tax property holders on the appreciation in the property's value, but it does tax gain or loss recognized by property sellers and exchangers of non-like-kind...

This study examines the effect of allowing qualifying individual taxpayers that do not deduct any interest expenses on their tax returns (called quot;qualified saversquot;) to partially exclude their interest, dividend, and capital gain income, subject to a maximum exclusion. Meanwhile,...