David Wessel's incredible tale of how Washington works-and why the rich keep getting richer-starts when a Silicon Valley entrepreneur concocts an idea that will save money on his taxes and spins it as a way to ostensibly help poor people. He organizes and pays for an effective lobbying effort that pushes his idea into law with little scrutiny or fine-tuning by congressional or Treasury tax experts-and few safeguards against abuse. With an unbeatable pair of high-profile sponsors, bumper-sticker simplicity and deft political marketing, the Opportunity Zone became an unnoticed part of the 2017 Trump tax bill. The gold rush followed immediately thereafter. In Only the Rich Can Play, Wessel follows the money to see who profited from this plan that was supposed to spur development of blighted areas and help people out of poverty: the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, the Portland (Oregon) Ritz-Carlton, the Mall of America, and self-storage facilities-lucrative areas where the one percent can park money profitably and avoid capital gains taxes. And the best part: unlike other provisions for eliminating capital gains taxes (inheritance, for example) you don't have to die to take advantage of this one. Wessel provides vivid portraits of the proselytizers, political influencers, motivational speakers, consultants, real estate dealmakers, and individual money-seekers looking to take advantage of this twenty-first century bonanza. He looks at places for which Opportunity Zones were supposedly designed (Baltimore, for example) and how little money they've drawn. And he finds a couple of places (Erie, PA) where zones are actually doing what they were supposed to, a lesson on how a better designed program might have helped more left-behind places. Readers will feel outraged as Wessel gives us the gritty reality, the dark underbelly of a system tilted in favor of the few, with the many left out in the cold.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book undertakes a fundamental review of the existing international system of taxing business profit. It steps back from the current political debates on how to combat profit shifting and how taxing rights over the profits of the digitalized economy should be allocated. Instead, it starts from first principles to ask how we should evaluate a tax on business profit-and whether there is any good rationale for such a tax in the first place. It then goes on to evaluate the existing system and a number of alternatives that have been proposed. It argues that the existing system is fundamentally flawed, and that there is a need for radical reform. The key conclusion from the analysis is that there would be significant gains from a reform that moved the system towards taxing profit in the country in which a business made its sales to third parties. That conclusion informs two proposals that are put forward in detail and evaluated: the Residual Profit Allocation by Income (RPAI) and the Destination-based Cash Flow Tax (DBCFT). The book is authored by group of economists and lawyers-the Oxford International Tax Group, chaired by Michael P. Devereux. It draws insights from both economics and law-including economic theory, empirical evidence on the impact of taxes, and an examination of practical issues of implementation-to assess the existing system and to consider fundamental reforms. This book will be useful to tax policy makers, tax professionals, academics, and anyone interested in tax policy.

Tolley's Yellow Tax Handbook ensures you have a complete view of contemporary tax legislation. This book is endorsed by the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT). The new edition contains all the relevant UK direct tax legislation, along with EU Directives and Regulations and essential HMRC material. The impact of the Finance Act 2022 is expertly covered by Tolley's tax team. The reader's understanding of the legislation is assisted by cross-references to the HMRC Internal Guidance Manuals and market-leading commentary in Simon's Taxes. With arguably the longest tax code in the world, and Finance Acts of increasing complexity and volume, interpreting the legislation has become more difficult than ever. Tolley's Handbook is the imperative reliable guide to the legislation.

Dieses Buch setzt sich mit der rechtlichen Neuordnung des Handels von Finanzderivaten in Europa und speziell in Deutschland auseinander. Die auf den G-20 Beschlussen von Pittsburgh beruhende europarechtliche Regulierung des ausserboerslichen Derivatemarkts erfolgt in der EU durch die European Market Infrastructure Regulation, die auch als EMIR-Verordnung bezeichnet wird. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf den sich aus der Verordnung ergebenden zivilrechtlichen Vorgaben, die von den Marktteilnehmern bei Abschluss und Durchfuhrung von ausserboerslichen Finanztermingeschaften zu beachten sind. Im Rahmen des verpflichtenden Clearings stellt das Werk eine rechtssichere und wirtschaftlich gunstige Alternative zur regelmassig gewahlten Novation dar und bewertet und erganzt den deutschen Rahmenvertrag fur Finanzderivate in Bezug auf Besicherungs- und Meldepflichten. Im Rahmen der Darstellung und Analyse der Rechtsfolgen von Verstoessen der Marktteilnehmer gegen Verpflichtungen aus der EMIR-Verordnung setzt sich das Werk fur eine differenzierte, den Sekundaranspruchskatalog des BGB achtende enge Auslegung der Verordnung ein und stellt europaische Abwicklungsvorgaben dem deutschen Insolvenzrecht gegenuber.

The Telegraph Tax Guide is the UK's bestselling tax handbook, containing everything you need to know about completing a self-assessment tax return for the 2021/22 financial year. With advice on how to complete self-assessment tax returns and a number of tax saving tips, this indispensable book includes: - Key changes from the Budget and Treasury Statements - Dealing effectively with HR Revenue and Customs - Worked illustrations showing you how to complete your tax submission - How living or working abroad affects the tax that you pay - Tax saving tips which help you save money Whether you are self-employed, work part time of full time, are unemployed or retired, if you pay tax The Telegraph Tax Guide is invaluable. It helps ensure that you are as tax efficient as possible, offering practical advice, timetables and examples that make the complex and challenging world of tax returns easier to understand.

This 2012 Supplement updates McDaniel, McMahon, and Simmons' Federal Income Taxation of Business Organizations , 4th Edition.

Charting tax changes post-Budget, this edition of Whillans's Tax Tables includes all the relevant information from the 2022 Autumn Budget, enabling practitioners to start processing the updated facts and figures. Revised content includes the latest tax rates, reliefs and tables of rates and allowances for the current year and previous five. Usefully, the operative date for each change is clearly shown. Concise summaries of tax changes are presented in tabular form under distinctive headings.

Das Aoebungsbuch soll die Studierenden von der AnfAngerA1/4bung im A-ffentlichen Recht bis zum Examen begleiten. Das Buch bietet zu zentralen Fragen der Fallbearbeitung im Verfassungsrecht eine theoretische Grundlegung, praktische Hinweise und Anleitungen sowie neuen MusterlAsungen. DasWerk unterscheidet sich von den A1/4blichen Anleitungswerken zur Fallbearbeitung im Verfassungsrecht vor allem dadurch, dass es Aufbau und Methode der FalllAsung reflektiert und durch ausgewAhlte Vertiefungshinweise in hohem MaAe zum Eigenstudium anregt. Ferner bietet das Werk in seinem ersten Teil eine theoretische Grundlegung zur Fallbearbeitung im Verfassungsrecht und Verfassungsprozessrecht. Durch zahlreiche VerknA1/4pfungen mit den neun Fallbearbeitungen entsteht ein doppelter Ansatz zur Durchdringung zentraler verfassungsrechtlicher und verfassungsprozessualer Fragestellungen, der deduktive und induktive Methode verknA1/4pft und auf diese Weise dem unterschiedlichen Lernverhalten der Studierenden Rechnung trAgt. Der erste Teil des Buches gibt Anregungen zur optimalen Nutzung der "Aoebung" in der universitAren Ausbildung und behandelt die Methodik der Fallbearbeitung in ihrer spezifisch verfassungsrechtlichen und verfassungsprozessualen Ausrichtung. Der zweite Teil des Buches behandelt Wert und Unwert von Aufbauschemata. Abgedruckt und detailliert erlAutert ist das Aufbauschema zur Verfassungsbeschwerde. Veranschaulicht wird damit die Grundstruktur der FallprA1/4fung bei sogenannten GrundrechtsfAllen. Die neun MusterlAsungen im dritten Teil des Buches dienen der Praxis der Fallbearbeitung. Inhaltlich sind wesentliche Teile zum Grundrechtsbereich, zum Staatsorganisationsrecht und zum Verfassungsprozessrecht abgedeckt. Auch das Landesverfassungsrecht ist berA1/4cksichtigt. Ein besonderes Gewicht liegt auf der Behandlung von Aufbaufragen und methodischen Problemen.

Existing corporate taxes distort many aspects of firm behavior. To the extent that the corporate tax rate is lower than personal tax rates, taxes favor corporate activity, and favor retaining earnings rather than paying earnings out to employees and investors. Multinationals can even avoid these taxes by shifting income into tax havens. Given the ease with which multinationals can evade tax, the existing income tax structure faces major pressures, as reflected in average statutory corporate tax rates halving in recent decades. The Element speculates on alternative tax structures that will avoid these problems.

Tolley's Capital Gains Tax provides a compact and straightforward account of the law and practice of CGT. Its practical alphabetical presentation, source materials and extensive cross-referencing between chapters lead you directly to all the information you want. With enhanced coverage of the latest Finance Act changes this latest edition of the main annual is a must-have.

Die in zahlreichen Staaten erlassenen Regeln zur Durchbrechung der Abschirmwirkung von niedrig besteuerten auslandischen Tochtergesellschaften inlandischer Unternehmen (so genannte CFC-Regeln) stehen gegenwartig in der Kritik, da sie mit Gemeinschaftsrecht und DBA teilweise nicht vereinbar sind. Gleichzeitig hat sich allerdings der Steuerwettbewerb zwischen den Staaten verscharft, so dass es fur die Hochsteuerlander kaum moeglich ist, auf eine effektive Abwehrgesetzgebung zu verzichten. Auch die jeweiligen Arbeitsgruppen der OECD und der EU sehen die CFC-Regeln als notwendiges Mittel zur Bekampfung des unfairen Steuerwettbewerbs an. Anhand der deutschen und der franzoesischen CFC-Regelung zeigt die Verfasserin die bestehenden Kritikpunkte auf und untersucht die Zukunftsperspektiven der CFC-Regeln vor dem Hintergrund der Bekampfung des unfairen Steuerwettbewerbs.

Die aktuelle Steuerpolitik der Bundesregierung legt die Vermutung nahe, dass zukunftig nicht weniger, sondern mehr Kapital aus Deutschland in das Ausland verlagert wird. Damit gewinnt die Hinzurechnungsbesteuerung an Aktualitat und Bedeutung. Eine bereits seit langem geforderte systemkonforme Regelung ware geboten, ist indes kaum zu erwarten. Im Ruckgriff auf die steuersystematische Intention der Hinzurechnungsbesteuerung zeigt die Arbeit die Steuerwirkungen des aktuellen Rechtsstandes in Deutschland und den USA. Vor dem Hintergrund der bisherigen deutschen Reformbemuhungen werden alternative Ausgestaltungen fur eine kunftige Hinzurechnungsbesteuerung untersucht. Die Analyse schliesst mit der Konzeption einer steuersystematischen Gestaltungsempfehlung an den Gesetzgeber.

Bringing a unique voice to international taxation, this book argues against the conventional support of multilateral co-operation in favour of structured competition as a way to promote both justice and efficiency in international tax policy. Tsilly Dagan analyzes international taxation as a decentralized market, where governments have increasingly become strategic actors. While many of the challenges of the current international tax regime derive from this decentralized competitive structure, Dagan argues that curtailing competition through centralization is not necessarily the answer. Conversely, competition - if properly calibrated and notwithstanding its dubious reputation - is conducive, rather than detrimental, to both efficiency and global justice. International Tax Policy begins with the basic normative goals of income taxation, explaining how competition transforms them and analyzing the strategic game states play on the bilateral and multilateral level. It then considers the costs and benefits of co-operation and competition in terms of efficiency and justice.

In 1783, a stamp duty was imposed on proprietary or 'quack' medicines. These largely useless but often dangerous remedies were immensely popular. The tax, which lasted until 1941, was imposed to raise revenue. It failed in its incidental regulatory purpose, had a negative effect in that the stamp was perceived as a guarantee of quality, and had a positive effect in encouraging disclosure of the formula. The book explains the considerable impact the tax had on chemists and druggists - how it led to an improvement in professional status, but undermined it by reinforcing their reputations as traders. The legislation imposing the tax was complex, ambiguous and never reformed. The tax authorities had to administer it, and executive practice came to dominate it. A minor, specialised, low-yield tax is shown to be of real significance in the pharmaceutical context, and of exceptional importance as a model revealing the wider impact of tax law and administration.

According to the doctrine of odious debt, loans which are knowingly provided to subjugate or defraud the population of a debtor state are not legally binding against that state under international law. Breaking with widespread scepticism, this groundbreaking book reaffirms the original doctrine through a meticulous and definitive examination of state practice and legal history. It restates the doctrine by introducing a new classification of odious debts and defines 'odiousness' by reference to the current, much more determinate and litigated framework of existing public international law. Acknowledging that much of sovereign debt is now governed by the private law of New York and England, Jeff King explores how 'odious debts' in international law should also be regarded as contrary to public policy in private law. This book is essential reading for practising lawyers, scholars, and development and human rights workers.

Stamp Taxes 2021/22 is a comprehensive and practical guide to all current UK stamp and land taxes: Stamp Duty Land Tax (England and Northern Ireland), Stamp Duty (UK) and Stamp Duty Reserve Tax (UK), together with commentary on Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Scotland) and Land Transaction Tax (Wales). It explains the reasons behind many of the current rules by exploring the history and development of stamp taxes, whilst setting out the scope of each tax and explaining how they interact. Including numerous examples, with references to legislation, case law and HMRC guidance throughout, this is a practical handbook for those working in tax advisory firms and tax departments of corporate groups and other major investors in UK property and companies. It is also a useful study aid for students and trainees studying for membership of professional bodies.

Modern-day tax treaties have their foundations in one of the three Model Tax Treaties developed by the League of Nations in 1928. Using previously unexplored archival material, Sunita Jogarajan provides the first in-depth examination of the development of the League's Models. This new research provides insights into questions such as the importance of double taxation versus tax evasion; the preference for source-taxation versus residence-taxation; the influence of theory and practice on the League's work; the development of bilateral rather than multilateral treaties; the influence of developing countries on the League's work; the role of Commentary in interpreting model tax treaties; and the influential factors and key individuals involved. A better understanding of the development of the original models will inform and help guide interpretation and reform of modern-day tax treaties. Additionally, this book will be of interest to scholars of international relations and the development of law at international organisations.

"At the end of the Trail of Tears there was a promise," U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the decision issued on July 9, 2020, in the case of McGirt v. Oklahoma. And that promise, made in treaties between the United States and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation more than 150 years earlier, would finally be kept. With the Court's ruling, the full extent of the Muscogee (Creek) Reservation was reaffirmed-meaning that 3.25 million acres of land in Oklahoma, including part of the city of Tulsa, were recognized once again as "Indian Country" as defined by federal law. A Promise Kept explores the circumstances and implications of McGirt v. Oklahoma, likely the most significant Indian law case in well over 100 years. Combining legal analysis and historical context, this book gives an in-depth, accessible account of how the case unfolded and what it might mean for Oklahomans, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and other tribes throughout the United States. For context, Robbie Ethridge traces the long history of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation from its inception in present-day Georgia and Alabama in the seventeenth century; through the tribe's rise to regional prominence in the colonial era, the tumultuous years of Indian Removal, and the Civil War and allotment; and into its resurgence in Oklahoma in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Against this historical background, Robert J. Miller considers McGirt v. Oklahoma, examining important related cases, precedents that informed the Court's decision, and future ramifications-legal, civil, regulatory, and practical-for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, federal Indian law, the United States, the state of Oklahoma, and Indian nations in Oklahoma and elsewhere. Their work clarifies the stakes of a decision that, while long overdue, raises numerous complex issues profoundly affecting federal, state, and tribal relations and law-and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.