Zurich, Hong Kong, les Bahamas, les îles Caïmans, le Luxembourg... Ces noms évocateurs dissimulent une sinistre réalité : la fraude fiscale d'une minorité d'ultra-riches au détriment de l'immense majorité. Grâce à une méthode inédite, l'auteur a pu évaluer l'ampleur du phénomène :...

Bank deposits in jurisdictions with banking secrecy constitute an effective tool to evade taxes on interest income. A recent EU reform reduces the scope for this type of tax evasion by introducing a source tax on interest income earned by EU residents in Switzerland and several other...

Corporate tax systems generally maintain a sharp distinction between debt and equity, however, the advent of hybrid instruments has transformed the universe of financial instruments into a debt-equity continuum and tax systems therefore need to draw lines that distinguish the set of debt...