Fixing U.S. International Taxation

Fixing U.S. International Taxation
Author: Daniel N. Shaviro
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2014-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 019935975X

Fixing U.S. International Taxation provides a major rethinking of the tax issues raised by cross-border investment and the activities of multinational corporations.

Fixing U.S. International Taxation

Fixing U.S. International Taxation
Author: Daniel N. Shaviro
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2014-02-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0190224770

International tax rules, which determine how countries tax cross-border investment, are increasingly important with the rise of globalization, but the modern U.S. rules, even more than those in most other countries, are widely recognized as dysfunctional. The existing debate over how to reform the U.S. tax rules is stuck in a sterile dialectic, in which ostensibly the only permissible choices are worldwide or residence-based taxation of U.S. companies with the allowance of foreign tax credits, versus outright exemption of the companies' foreign source income. In Fixing U.S. International Taxation, Daniel N. Shaviro explains why neither of these solutions addresses the fundamental problem at hand, and he proposes a new reformulation of the existing framework from first principles. He shows that existing international tax policy frameworks are misguided insofar as they treat "double taxation" and "double non-taxation" as the key issues, conflate the distinct questions of what tax rate to impose on foreign source income and how to treat foreign taxes, and use simplistic single-bullet global welfare norms in lieu of a comprehensive analysis. Drawing on tools that are familiar from public economics and trade policy, but that have been under-utilized in the international tax realm, Shaviro offers a better analysis that not only reshapes our understanding of the underlying issues, but might point the way to substantially improving the prevailing rules, both in the U.S. and around the world.

A Practical Guide to U. S. Taxation of International Transactions

A Practical Guide to U. S. Taxation of International Transactions
Author: Robert Meldman
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Discusses two fundamental principles of US taxation of international transactions, i.e. tax jurisdiction and the source of income rules. Explains how the US taxes the foreign activities of domestic corporations, US citizens and other US persons. Includes chapters on the foreign tax credit, the deemed paid foreign tax credit, transfer pricing, controlled foreign corporations, foreign sales corporations and income tax treaties. Describes how the US taxes the US activities of foreign corporations, non-resident alien individuals, and other foreign persons.

International Tax Policy

International Tax Policy
Author: Tsilly Dagan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2018
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107112109

Explains why perfecting, rather than curbing, interstate competition would make international taxation both more efficient and more just.

Reform of U.S. International Taxation

Reform of U.S. International Taxation
Author: Jane Gravelle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre:
ISBN:

This report describes and assesses the principal prescriptions that have been offered for broad reform of the international system. It begins with an overview of current law and possible revisions. It then sets the framework for considering economic efficiency as well as tax shelter activities. Finally, it reviews alternative approaches to revision in light of those issues.

International Tax as International Law

International Tax as International Law
Author: Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2007-09-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780521618014

This book explains how the tax rules of the various countries in the world interact with one another to form an international tax regime: a set of principles embodied in both domestic legislation and treaties that significantly limits the ability of countries to choose any tax rules they please. The growth of this international tax regime is an important part of the phenomenon of globalization, and the book delves into how tax revenues are divided among different countries. It also explains how U.S. tax rules in particular apply to cross-border transactions and how they embody the norms of the international tax regime.

Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax

Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax
Author: Daniel N. Shaviro
Publisher: The Urban Insitute
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780877667575

"The corporate tax could soon be headed in new directions," Dan Shaviro writes in Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax, wherein he assesses the threats to America's corporate tax code and challenges conventional wisdom on the best avenues for reform. Shaviro dissects the vagaries of the law, lays out the fundamental policy issues, and considers the road ahead. As rising globalization, capital mobility, financial innovation, and political polarization combine to destabilize tax policy and government revenue, Shaviro maps the path to fair, revenue-generating reform.