The main aim of this study is to present the basic principles of taxing revenue derived from activities carried out by farmers in Poland, resulting from the regulations of tax law in Poland, and propose solutions concerning that law as it should stand. These are revenues derived from...

In recent years, advancements in blockchain as well as virtual and augmented reality technologies have led to the emergence of digital environments, commonly referred to as the “metaverse”. These virtual worlds offer users unprecedented ways to interact and conduct business, such as the use...

GPT-4 performs vastly better than ChatGPT or GPT-3.5 on legal tasks like the bar exam and statutory reasoning. To test GPT-4’s abilities, we ran it on our final exams this semester and graded its output alongside students’ exams. We found that it produced smoothly written answers that failed...

This Essay is based on my presentation to Temple University Beasley School of Law for the 2022 Frank and Rose Fogel Lecture Series. This is not intended to be a transcript of my remarks given on October 11, 2022, but instead, an opportunity to provide additional information regarding the Tax...

This paper seeks to identify two key differences between the U.S. tax law and Nigerian tax law with the aim of comparing the different approaches identified and commenting on what each country might learn from the other country’s approach. For this purpose, it was necessary to, first, identify...

This is the tenth in a series of sixteen papers about the U.S extraterritorial tax system.The U.S. extraterritorial tax system violates multiple provisions of international human rights instruments that have been signed, or signed and ratified, by the United States. The rights in question...

As democracies around the world have faltered, legal scholars in fields as diverse as election law, labor law, and administrative law have turned to tax law to repair and support democratic governments. Taxation offers a toolset well equipped to address concerns raised by democratic theorists...

A government's primary duty is to provide its people with public services, for which it needs funding to cover its costs. Taxation, among other things, serves as a significant source of funding for public spending. The government has been able to uncover new avenues for revenue collection...

Tax planning is part of modern financial management worldwide, and the countries of Central Europe are no exception. Tax havens provide opportunities for managers to increase companies profits through tax reduction. Naturally, there are differences in ownership structures; therefore, the...

Today, many employers require their employees, as a condition of employment, to agree to arbitrate employment-related legal claims rather than pursue them in court. While arbitration can be mutually beneficial, allowing parties to avoid the cost, time, publicity, and unpredictability associated...

Disagreements over business deals, land boundaries, or loan non-repayment are very common sources of disputes, and courts are congested in developing countries. We evaluate the effects of the government introducing formal "village courts" (VCs) in rural Bangladesh using a randomized controlled...

This paper focuses on the technical assistance report on international taxation challenges and options in Guatemala. The topic of treaties has garnered special attention in Guatemala as of late, requiring a strategy to be devised. Treaties foster a better business climate and can encourage...

In this paper, we investigate distortions created by turnover taxes. As a natural experiment, we explore a reform that replaced turnover taxes with value-added taxes for some service industries in China, while the taxation of manufacturing industries remained unchanged. The reform increased...

In Canadian tax law, directors may face liability for a corporation's failure to withhold or remit certain tax and payroll amounts. To escape liability, directors can invoke the due diligence defence by demonstrating that they acted with the care, diligence, and skill of a "reasonably prudent...

This Article explores the tax law challenges associated with the taxation of cryptocurrencies and offers proposals to address such challenges. Specifically, the Article addresses the proper tax treatment of different cryptocurrency transactions and activities. It examines various aspects...

The tax law’s race-blind approach produces bad tax policy. This essay uses three very different examples to show how failing to openly and honestly address race generates bias, and how devasting the results can be. Ignoring race does not solve problems; it creates them. ProPublica has shown,...

The chapter situates the famous Fleet Street Casuals in its historical, social and political context and highlights its importance to the wider juridification of tax law in the UK. The print version is available at https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/landmark-cases-in-revenue-law-9781509912278

In the media, the so-called cum/ex trades were addressed as the biggest tax robbery in history. In a few years, the financial trading scheme caused an estimated damage to European state treasuries of ca. 50 billion euros. Through highly complex transactions, a network of equity traders, banks,...

To ensure the neutrality of EU VAT, a supplier can (in principle) under Article 90 of the VAT Directive, reduce the taxable amount if – among other situations – the customer fails to pay for the supply (non-payment or 'bad debt'). Article 185 addresses the other side of the transaction and...

The current age of inequality is also an age of extensive tax and related public economics scholarship about inequality. Three prominent aspects of recent research especially stand out. The first concerns empirical measurement of economic inequality, as it has changed over time. The second...

In this article, Altawyan overviews the tax rules for Islamic finance to help lawmakers and policymakers in the United States and other countries develop laws or guidance on sharia-compliant financial activities and transactions

The world today has become a global village and commercial transactions can be carried out from one end of the globe to the other without the need for physical presence, thanks to the unprecedented technological growth and innovations of recent decades. With the even recent developments in...

I present a model of tax planning in which the deductibility of the taxpayer’s transaction – if challenged – must be deliberated by the tax authority. Even when all facts are known, the outcome of a deliberation remains uncertain, and the only penalty that can be assessed when the tax...

Tax law punishes poor foreigners. Although the Supreme Court struck down nineteenth-century state laws taxing migrants upon entry, the tax system determines who deserves a place, and what sort of place, within our borders. The tax system’s emergency relief programs may deprive otherwise needy...

This article analyses critically the interpretation of the MFN clause in the NL-India tax treaty. It sounds a note of caution against following the Delhi High Court's decision in the case of Concentrix

Flipping the classroom—where the traditional in-class activities (lecture) and pre-class homework activities (problems) are reversed—is a pedagogical technique that has grown more popular in higher education over the past decade. To me, pre-class video lectures always seemed like...

Technology is a necessary component of life and has an effect on it. The existence of technology has pushed the economy in a digital direction, which is continuing to grow. This trend is being felt across the economy, including the financial services sector. Fintech is one of the technological...

Today's world is rigged with a number of technological advancements. It’s a digital era, and the rapid spread and growth of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), as well as constant access to it, has had a significant impact on our economic practices, causing businesses to follow...

The study aims to evaluate the country's legal framework for taxing digital transactions. Specifically, the extent to which the provisions of the law can map onto the value of digital markets. Based on the findings on the structure of the digital commerce value chain, and its possible...

PURPOSE: Determine whether income tax evasion also constitutes money laundering if Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendations are strictly applied, including cases where an offender evades tax on lawful income.APPROACH: Apply FATF conditions for money laundering to the tax evasion facts...

This contribution disproves the hypothesis that most of the changes in Czech direct tax law are adopted to minimise negative aspects connected with the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukrainian war. On the contrary, most of the significant changes in the Czech tax law adopted in the last three years...

Which article of the U.K.–South Africa tax treaty—Article 7, on business profits, or Article 14, on income from employment—applies for the purpose of allocating taxing rights in respect of remuneration for services provided by a diver in the U.K. under a contract of employment? This was...

Fundamental legal principles and rights may function as a check on legislative power protecting citizens against arbitrary interferences of tax legislation with their lives. We’ll start with a description of the fundamental protection of individual rights that exists under Dutch national law...

By way of two detailed decisions released on October 19, 2022, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India has revisited the entire law governing income tax exemption for charitable activities in India.These decisions have examined the statutory provisions which have been in vogue for...

The proposed OECD Pillar One and Two reforms mark a significant shift in the way large multinational enterprises are taxed on their global incomes. However, while considering the reform at the proposed scale tax administrators must be able to compare the revenue gains with alternatives. This...