The purpose of this paper is to briefly explain the current Spanish legal framework to curb the debt and deficit introduced after the constitutional reform of September 2011, before the ‘Six Pack’ and the ‘Fiscal Compact’ (Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance or TSCG) were...

European Union law has an increasing impact on the development of Member States' taxation powers. This is particularly evident in the case of sub-central entities, such as the Autonomous Communities. These limits are themselves in a process of transformation, so it is not always easy to know in...

The aim of this paper is to present a frozen image of the current Spanish system of fiscal federalism, in light of the tensions that the economic situation, has brought about. With this purpose, I will first broadly offer an outline of how decentralized Spain actually works, and how the...

This articles analyses the consequences brought about by the introduction of the Budgetary Stability principles, which are in part of the Monetary Union established in the Maastricht Treaty, in the Spanish law system. The article is divided into three parts: (1) the economic discussion on...

The last two centuries have seen the rise of the nation-state as the dominant political institution around the world. During this period, the colonial empires of varying duration and reach created first by the Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch, then the French and British, then the Germans and...

The genesis of this set of five papers on prefilled (or pre-populated) personal income tax returns was the observation that the Québec government had initiated in December 2007 a prefilled personal income tax program. A target group of 100,000 tax filers, 80% of whom were age 65 or older were...