Complaints in society about how multinationals pay corporate tax are familiar. Multinationals seem able to arrange their affairs in a way that allows them to avoid contributing their fair share. Governments help them to attract investment. Workers and customers, meanwhile, face ever-increasing...

The current international corporate tax regime for taxing the business proceeds of firms operates arbitrarily. The aggregates of the nation states' international corporate tax systems seem to distort a global efficient allocation of resources. The model is ill-suited to current market realities....

In this paper, the author sets out a proposal for an alternative, more neutral system for taxing multinationals. His suggestion is that multinationals should be treated as a single taxable entity and granted an allowance for equity capital provided by shareholders. The proposal geographically...

Today we live in a globalizing economy: national open markets are steadily developing towards a global market. Within the European Union, the internal market without internal frontiers has been established. However, the fiscal sovereignty of nation states remains limited to economic activities...

How countries tax the profits of multinational enterprises has become hopelessly outdated. The recent OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Project has left the existing international corporate taxation framework essentially intact. Perhaps it is time to consider a truly fundamental reform...

Traditionally, countries impose their corporation tax on an entity-by-entity rather than a group-wide basis. As the taxability of entities, tax bases, and tax rates vary from one country to another, these differences give rise to mismatches, leading to double taxation, but also to non-or almost...