In an increasingly globalized world, many individuals and corporations work and do business abroad. As a result, jurisdictions need to define how income earned in foreign countries is taxed. Otherwise, income could be taxed in more than one country, resulting in double taxation. To avoid this, countries negotiate double tax agreements (DTAs). Tax treaties usually […]
Many businesses around the world operate in more than one country, making them subject to multiple tax jurisdictions. To prevent businesses from minimizing their tax liability by taking advantage of cross-country differences in taxation, countries have implemented various anti-tax avoidance measures, one known as Controlled Foreign Corporation (CFC) rules. CFC rules apply to certain income […]
New research on the impact of energy taxes and the EU’s cap-and-trade system has been released. Both articles were published by the American Economic Journal in 2020. In “Energy Cost Pass-Through in US Manufacturing: Estimates and Implications for Carbon Taxes,” the authors study the welfare effects of changes in energy input costs—such as energy tax […]
Countries around the world are experiencing a sharp downturn in economic activity as an impact of the COVID-19 health crisis. To cushion the immediate liquidity effects of containment and mitigation policies, governments responded rapidly with emergency tax and fiscal policy measures. As these short-term measures are starting to expire, policymakers are increasingly looking at mid- […]
The growth of the digital economy over the last several decades has raised important questions about how to tax corporations that no longer need a physical presence in a country to turn a profit there. For months, countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have been working towards a multilateral solution to this challenge, […]