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This publication offers guidance to revenue agencies that are in the process of designing or implementing computerisation or information technology projects to improve the efficiency of their tax administration. It draws on the experience of Australia, Malaysia, Malta, Pakistan, Singapore and Tanzania, representing a range of information technology initiatives of varying scales, complexity and levels of maturity. Rather than look at overall conceptual issues, which are already well covered else...

Under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Canada, the United States, and Mexico continue to maintain their own distinct tax regimes, jealously guarding their sovereign right to do so. At times, these different tax systems harm the economic welfare of the trade bloc by imposing barriers to cross-border flows of capital. In NAFTA Tax Law and Policy, Arthur J. Cockfield analyzes these different tax systems and proposes a number of recommendations to reduce the harm caused by these barr...

This guide covers what offshore tax havens are; how they work for individuals, corporations, trusts, and other entities; country-by-country a nalysis of tax haven laws, procedures, expenses, benefits, operational procedures, structure, and method of establishment. It provides background on potential consequences, how to properly maintain tax havens, and to how to maximise the benefits. The companion CD-ROM contains electronic versions of all the forms and worksheets found in the Guide.

As experience with decentralization has accumulated, perceptions of both the problems that often accompany decentralization and the best ways to deal with them have evolved. This book draws on experiences in developing countries to bridge the gap between the conventional textbook treatment of fiscal decentralization and the actual practice of subnational government finance. The extensive literature about the theory and practice is surveyed, and longstanding problems and new questions are address...

This package aims to inform readers of what offshore tax havens are, how they can be put to work to the advantage of individuals and corporations, and how to set them up. It also explains what tax consequences are, how to maintain the tax haven, and how to maximize their benefits.

A contributed volume, based on the new transfer pricing Treasury regulations (Section 482), by international tax and accounting experts with extensive experience in this area. International corporations dealing with imported or exported products from their subsidiaries are affected by this new rule and those that do not comply will face strict penalties which can be financially damaging. Analyzes numerous aspects of transfer pricing including cost sharing, valuation of intangibles and priority r...

First published in 1997, this volume emerged in response to the need for material on the research, development, use and application of mass appraisal techniques for ad valorem property tax systems. The primary paradigms discussed include regression, base home technique, adaptive estimation procedure and artificial neural networks. Intending to address a wide range of property types, the authors explored residential, condominiums, retail, office and industrial property as well as agricultural and...

Simplicity in taxation has considerable potential advantages. However, attempts to simplify tax systems are only likely to be successful and enduring if they take account of the reasons why taxation is complex. There are strong pressures on tax systems to accommodate a range of important factors, as well as complex and changing national and international environments within which modern tax systems have to operate. This book explores the experiences of simplification in a range of countries an...

Scholars and practitioners have long hailed fiscal federalism as a critical tool for improving government services, but it has not always lived up to its promise when applied in specific countries. This book offers both an explanation for such mixed effects and a roadmap for better outcomes in the future. It argues that the benefits of fiscal federalism are contingent on a particular confluence of political institutions, namely democratic decentralization and political party integration. With...

How do you make taxpayers comply? This ethnography offers a vivid, yet nuanced account of knowledge making at one of Sweden’s most esteemed bureaucracies – the Swedish Tax Agency. In its aim to collect taxes and minimize tax faults, the Agency mediates the application of tax law to ensure compliance and maintain legitimacy in society. This volume follows one risk assessment project’s passage through the Agency, from its inception, through the research phase, in discussions with management to i...