Tax Law in Times of Crisis and Recovery

Tax Law in Times of Crisis and Recovery
Author: Dominic de Cogan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2023-05-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1509958045

This book examines the relationship between tax law and crisis. In times of environmental, financial, and public health breakdown, policymakers look to tax for solutions. Yet these crises also constrain the ways in which tax liabilities can be imposed and administered, and limit the revenues that can be collected. What should governments do in these circumstances and what are the wider consequences for states, societies, and institutions such as the EU? The book shows how crises place strain on the basic functions of tax, including revenue-raising, institution-building, regulation, redistribution, and the structuring of society. These strains bear more heavily on some sections of business and society than others. This makes the tax consequences of crisis unpredictable. It also means that the best choice of legal response is not merely a technical matter. Instead, it engages deeper attitudes towards crisis relief, change, social values, and democratic control. These issues are highlighted by COVID-19 but are of utmost lasting importance. The book takes a comprehensive approach and looks in more depth at the systemic roles that crises play in contemporary tax systems. It features an impressive cast of leading researchers across multiple jurisdictions and is essential for policymakers and scholars alike.

Law and Macroeconomics

Law and Macroeconomics
Author: Yair Listokin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2019-03-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0674976053

A distinguished Yale economist and legal scholar’s argument that law, of all things, has the potential to rescue us from the next economic crisis. After the economic crisis of 2008, private-sector spending took nearly a decade to recover. Yair Listokin thinks we can respond more quickly to the next meltdown by reviving and refashioning a policy approach whose proven success is too rarely acknowledged. Harking back to New Deal regulatory agencies, Listokin proposes that we take seriously law’s ability to function as a macroeconomic tool, capable of stimulating demand when needed and relieving demand when it threatens to overheat economies. Listokin makes his case by looking at both positive and cautionary examples, going back to the New Deal and including the Keystone Pipeline, the constitutionally fraught bond-buying program unveiled by the European Central Bank at the nadir of the Eurozone crisis, the ongoing Greek crisis, and the experience of U.S. price controls in the 1970s. History has taught us that law is an unwieldy instrument of macroeconomic policy, but Listokin argues that under certain conditions it offers a vital alternative to the monetary and fiscal policy tools that stretch the legitimacy of technocratic central banks near their breaking point while leaving the rest of us waiting and wallowing.

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781590318737

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Current Challenges in Revenue Mobilization - Improving Tax Compliance

Current Challenges in Revenue Mobilization - Improving Tax Compliance
Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2015-01-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1498344895

This paper addresses core challenges that all tax administrations face in dealing with noncompliance—which are now receiving renewed attention. Long a priority in developing countries, assuring strong compliance has acquired greater priority in countries facing intensified revenue needs, and is critical for fairness and statebuilding. Series: Policy Papers

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report
Author: Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Total Pages: 692
Release: 2011-05-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1616405414

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, published by the U.S. Government and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in early 2011, is the official government report on the United States financial collapse and the review of major financial institutions that bankrupted and failed, or would have without help from the government. The commission and the report were implemented after Congress passed an act in 2009 to review and prevent fraudulent activity. The report details, among other things, the periods before, during, and after the crisis, what led up to it, and analyses of subprime mortgage lending, credit expansion and banking policies, the collapse of companies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the federal bailouts of Lehman and AIG. It also discusses the aftermath of the fallout and our current state. This report should be of interest to anyone concerned about the financial situation in the U.S. and around the world.THE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION is an independent, bi-partisan, government-appointed panel of 10 people that was created to "examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States." It was established as part of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009. The commission consisted of private citizens with expertise in economics and finance, banking, housing, market regulation, and consumer protection. They examined and reported on "the collapse of major financial institutions that failed or would have failed if not for exceptional assistance from the government."News Dissector DANNY SCHECHTER is a journalist, blogger and filmmaker. He has been reporting on economic crises since the 1980's when he was with ABC News. His film In Debt We Trust warned of the economic meltdown in 2006. He has since written three books on the subject including Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity (Cosimo Books, 2008), and The Crime Of Our Time: Why Wall Street Is Not Too Big to Jail (Disinfo Books, 2011), a companion to his latest film Plunder The Crime Of Our Time. He can be reached online at www.newsdissector.com.

Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery

Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery
Author: Menzie D. Chinn
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2011-09-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0393080501

A clear, authoritative guide to the crisis of 2008, its continuing repercussions, and the needed reforms ahead. The U.S. economy lost the first decade of the twenty-first century to an ill-conceived boom and subsequent bust. It is in danger of losing another decade to the stagnation of an incomplete recovery. How did this happen? Read this lucid explanation of the origins and long-term effects of the recent financial crisis, drawn in historical and comparative perspective by two leading political economists. By 2008 the United States had become the biggest international borrower in world history, with more than two-thirds of its $6 trillion federal debt in foreign hands. The proportion of foreign loans to the size of the economy put the United States in league with Mexico, Indonesia, and other third-world debtor nations. The massive inflow of foreign funds financed the booms in housing prices and consumer spending that fueled the economy until the collapse of late 2008. This was the most serious international economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Menzie Chinn and Jeffry Frieden explain the political and economic roots of this crisis as well as its long-term effects. They explore the political strategies behind the Bush administration’s policy of funding massive deficits with foreign borrowing. They show that the crisis was foreseen by many and was avoidable through appropriate policy measures. They examine the continuing impact of our huge debt on the continuing slow recovery from the recession. Lost Decades will long be regarded as the standard account of the crisis and its aftermath.

Bloomsbury's Company Law Ready Referencer

Bloomsbury's Company Law Ready Referencer
Author: CS Rupanjana De
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 900
Release: 2021-08-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9389611954

Highlights ? With 85+ Referencer containing more than 165 procedures, tables & charts ? Containing the following lucid charts for procedures/compliances under the Companies Law: - Compliance requirements – Annual, One-time and Others - Disclosure requirements in Financial Statements, Board Reports etc - Flow chart for Name Change, Conversion, Directors, Auditors, KMP, Allotment, Registered Office, Charges, Managerial Remuneration, Removal of Name, Acceptance of Deposits, Buy-back of Securities, Declaration and Payment of Dividend, Loan, Advances and Borrowings, Related Party Transactions, Dormant/Inactive Company and many more - LLP – Advantage, Registration, Conversion, Closure, Compliances, Returns & Records, FLLP ? Act, Rules, Standards and table/flow charts of procedures- all integrated at one place with comments on each section

Combating Tax Avoidance in the EU

Combating Tax Avoidance in the EU
Author: José Manuel Almudí Cid
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
Total Pages: 880
Release: 2018-12-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9403501421

Following each Member State's need to rebuild a strong and stable economy after the 2007 financial crisis, the European Union (EU) has developed a robust new transparency framework with binding anti-abuse measures and stronger instruments to challenge external threats of base erosion. This is the first and only book to provide a complete detailed analysis of the Anti-Tax Avoidance Package and other recent and ongoing European actions taken in direct taxation. With contributions from both prominent tax academics and Spain's delegates to the European meetings where these rules are debated and promulgated, the book covers such issues and topics as the following: – the development of the EU Strategy towards Aggressive Tax Planning; – recent tax-related jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice; – the Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive; – tax treaties and non-tax treaties with tax consequences both between Member States and between Member States and third countries; – code of conduct for business taxation; – automatic exchange of information; – country-by-country reporting; – arbitration in tax matters; – external strategy for effective taxation regarding non-EU countries; – competition and state aid developments in direct taxation; – the Common Consolidated Tax Base; and – digital significant presence and permanent establishment. As the EU pursues its ambitious tax agenda, taxation's contribution to EU growth and competitiveness and its part in relations with the rest of the world will come into ever clearer focus. In addition to its insights into these trends, the book's unparalleled practical information and analysis will be of great value to tax practitioners dealing with investment analysis, tax planning schemes, and other features of the current international tax landscape.

Unequal We Stand

Unequal We Stand
Author: Jonathan Heathcote
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 61
Release: 2010-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1437934919

The authors conducted a systematic empirical study of cross-sectional inequality in the U.S., integrating data from various surveys. The authors follow the mapping suggested by the household budget constraint from individual wages to individual earnings, to household earnings, to disposable income, and, ultimately, to consumption and wealth. They document a continuous and sizable increase in wage inequality over the sample period. Changes in the distribution of hours worked sharpen the rise in earnings inequality before 1982, but mitigate its increase thereafter. Taxes and transfers compress the level of income inequality, especially at the bottom of the distribution, but have little effect on the overall trend. Charts and tables. This is a print-on-demand publication; it is not an original.

GST Audit Handbook - Government Perspective

GST Audit Handbook - Government Perspective
Author: CA Madhukar Hiregange
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2021-05-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9354351263

About the Book This book supplements and expands the concepts, guidelines, principles, details and working methods in the GST Audit Manual published by the government wherever it was felt that there is a need. This book is divided into 12 chapters as follows: Chapter 1: Overview of GST Law Chapter 2: Objectives, principles and statutory provisions of department audit Chapter 3: Selection of taxpayers for audit Chapter 4: Preliminary work – Before allocation of audit Chapter 5: Preparation for audit with the help of available and collected data and desk review Chapter 6: Audit verification – conduct of audit Chapter 7: Audit report and follow up Chapter 8: How to Read Financial Reports/Statements Chapter 9: Relevant Accounting Standards for the purpose of auditors Chapter 10: Important decisions relevant for audit Chapter 11: Common errors Chapter 12: Modus operandi of frauds and detection of GST frauds KEY FEATURES Includes drafts of letters to tax payers. Contains detailed internal evaluation questionnaire. Samples of walk through, audit plan, tables for trend and ratio analysis. Details of verification work in the office before audit and during audit. Covers latest case laws relating to audit and GST issues. Contains guidance on 'How to read financial reports?' Discussion of relevant Accounting Standards.