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Catching Capital: The Ethics of Tax Competition

Autor Peter Dietsch
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 aug 2015
Rich people stash away trillions of dollars in tax havens like Switzerland, the Cayman Islands, or Singapore. Multinational corporations shift their profits to low-tax jurisdictions like Ireland or Panama to avoid paying tax. Recent stories in the media about Apple, Google, Starbucks, and Fiat are just the tip of the iceberg. There is hardly any multinational today that respects not just the letter but also the spirit of tax laws. All this becomes possible due to tax competition, with countries strategically designing fiscal policy to attract capital from abroad. The loopholes in national tax regimes that tax competition generates and exploits draw into question political economic life as we presently know it. They undermine the fiscal autonomy of political communities and contribute to rising inequalities in income and wealth.Building on a careful analysis of the ethical challenges raised by a world of tax competition, this book puts forward a normative and institutional framework to regulate the practice. In short, individuals and corporations should pay tax in the jurisdictions of which they are members, where this membership can come in degrees. Moreover, the strategic tax setting of states should be limited in important ways. An International Tax Organisation (ITO) should be created to enforce the principles of tax justice.The author defends this call for reform against two important objections. First, Dietsch refutes the suggestion that regulating tax competition is inefficient. Second, he argues that regulation of this sort, rather than representing a constraint on national sovereignty, in fact turns out to be a requirement of sovereignty in a global economy. The book closes with a series of reflections on the obligations that the beneficiaries of tax competition have towards the losers both prior to any institutional reform as well as in its aftermath.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190251512
ISBN-10: 0190251514
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 2 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 145 x 213 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

This is an excellent book suitable not just for tax academics but also for policy makers. In a very readable fashion, the author valiantly defends the regulation of tax competition, not just in the name of justice but also in the name of sound economic policy with lucid (for non-economists) and highly persuasive arguments. With this book, Peter Dietsch has made a very timely contribution to the global justice literature. His book is likely to become a classic.
Dietschs book sets forth a good overview of this troubling state of affairs and makes a carefully argued philosophical case for restoring fiscal autonomy to national governments.
Recommended
With this fine book on tax competition, Peter Dietsch makes a timely contribution to the global justice literature.
Overall, this is an exceptional book that is well worth reading.

Notă biografică

Peter Dietsch is Associate Professor at the Université de Montréal. His research interests lie at the intersection of political philosophy and economics, with a particular focus on questions of income distribution as well as on the normative dimensions of economic policies.