Taxes have always been politicized. In modern times, no election passes without each campaign's position on taxes being thoroughly scrutinized. And with economic inequality now at the heart of so much political debate, taxes have become an even more polarizing...
Corporate tax cuts lead to cash hoarding, which lower growth. Recently Prof. Matthew Watson wrote an article for us entitled The Anti-Growth Dynamics of the Competitiveness Agenda, in which he outlined generic reasons, both from a supply side and a demand...
The U.S. tax system has its haters. More than two-thirds of Americans say they dislike or hate doing their taxes. A majority of us complain that our taxes are too high and that the wealthiest among us don't pay their...
Most advanced and emerging market economies according to IMF studies will face a momentous transition towards ageing and shrinking populations. This is expected to have profound implications for economics, financial markets, social stability, and geopolitics. Without action, public pension and health systems will...
JUST about every American chief executive has the same dream: to get out from under the corporate income tax. For many, that means lobbying Congress to change the tax code. But for a growing number, it also involves increasingly creative...
Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and public goods, such as mobile[1] skilled workers and immobile unskilled workers. The early literature on fiscal competition claimed that competition for mobile factors would drive down taxes to inefficiently low...
A large part from us would say that it is useless to begin again the fight against corruption, as it is accepted as a moral norm of society. Others would say that corruption is a global phenomenon and is an...
Tax on firms’ profits is the eighth most important factor to bear in mind in an FDI decision, being less important than other factors such as political stability and the host country market size. A result of the study by Simmons was the...
Comprehensive property tax reform in Albania is generally acknowledged to be a technically complex and data intensive process, typically involving interaction and coordination between many agencies at both the central and local level. The present property tax in Albania is fairly...
The worldwide economies are facing some of the highest ratios of public debt in decades. For those countries that are not at imminent risk of losing market access, current policy debates center on the appropriate pace at which to pay down...
