Adam S. Wallwork is an Attorney in the New York City office of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLC, where his practice focuses on federal income taxation. Mr. Wallwork provides a novel look at the Tax Court's doctrine of preparer fraud, which recently provoked a circuit split. He shows that that...

We propose a game-theoretic investigation to capture the interplay between the behavior of tax consultants, taxpayers, and the tax authority in a setting of tax complexity. Our purpose is to provide answers to two research questions: Which aspects of the strategic interaction between the players...

We analyze the impact of trust on bargaining behavior between auditor and auditee in a tax setting. We study the effect of interpersonal trust and trust in government on both taxpayer and tax auditor. In an experiment with variation in pairwise trust settings, we find evidence that both kinds of...

Executives use a variety of manipulative games to maximize the value of their gifts, including backdating, spring-loading, bullet-dodging and insider information. We find that executives exploit a legal loophole to backdate their gifts. Stock prices rise abnormally about 6% during the one-year...

The OECD’s Pillar One Blueprint proposes a new taxing right, Amount A, that would shift the pre-tax profits of multinational enterprises (MNEs) from Residence and Source jurisdictions to Market jurisdictions. The Amount A formula provides multiple opportunities for both MNEs and tax...

This paper constructs and analyzes a rudimentary game-theoretic model to better understand the policy choice between a global minimum tax regime that operates country-by-country and one that operates based on MNEs’ global average tax rates. The paper’s findings run counter to the consensus...

Die Bekämpfung unfairer Steuerpraktiken ist gerade in Zeiten der globalen Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise jüngst mit hoher Priorität auf die Agenden der EU und der OECD gerückt. Dabei ist das Thema nicht neu: Seit einer Dekade ist ""unfairer"" Steuerwettbewerb eines der Hot Topics in Politik...

This paper adds to the economic-psychological research on tax compliance by experimentally testing a simple auditing rule that induces strategic uncertainty among taxpayers. Under this rule, termed the bounded rule, taxpayers are informed of the maximum number of audits by a tax authority, so...