The United States Whistleblower Program’s inadequate protections have placed the privacy and confidentiality rights of United States taxpayers in a vulnerable state. By using the United States Whistleblower Program as an example, this paper seeks to illustrate the risk of eroding the confidentiality and privacy rights of the taxpayer, which is a risk that other national and international governments should likewise attempt to mitigate in their own whistleblower protection programs.

Globalisation of trade and investment has led multinational enterprises to develop strategies to maximise profits by investing in countries with a favourable tax climate, resulting in loss of tax revenue to domestic economies. In South Africa, recent economic liberalisation and associated relaxation of exchange controls have created increasing exposure to global competition, risk of capital flight and potential threat to the tax base. Heeding OECD recommendations intended to counter negative tax implications for domestic economies and curb harmful tax practices, South Africa introduced controlled foreign company provisions initially in 1997, followed by comprehensive legislation in 2001. Appropriateness of South Africa’s CFC regulations as domestic anti-avoidance measures is assessed in this study for their relevance in the international fiscal arena, highlighting key divergences, shortcomings and anomalies in the South African regulations compared with OECD recommendations, and with regulatory measures in the United Kingdom (jurisdictional-entity approach) and the United States (transactional approach), these two examplars offering paradigms of the most important CFC regulatory approaches currently in force. The primary materials investigated in the study are the statutes which constitute the taxation laws, read in conjunction with auxiliary, quasi-statutory advisory and explanatory documentation issued by the respective regulatory authorities, along with test cases that established legal precedent on points of ambiguity in taxation law. A key finding in the literature review is the relative dearth of publications on current South African CFC regulations in an international comparative context. A paradigm shift is noted in United Kingdom tax policy, as it migrates towards a territorially inclined tax system in CFC regulations – more compatible with European Union (EU) requirements and propelled in large measure by EU-pressure – with a similar trend in United States tax policy, intended to rekindle expansion and growth of the United States economy through repatriation of foreign funds earned by CFCs. The study finds that it would be unrealistic to seek an absolute paradigm for reform or evolution of South African CFC regulations in either the United Kingdom or the United States, although the South African and United Kingdom CFC measures show significant affinities in their entity-based mechanisms to grant full exemption. More significant constituents of CFC regulation in one or another of the two countries do, however, prove to be generally congenial to the South African situation and offer useful pointers for ongoing reform of the South African measures. Other areas in the United Kingdom or United States CFC regulations are identified as less relevant to South African requirements, being linked to tax principles that would be excessively complicated in the South African circumstances, needlessly demanding for tax administrators and for South African shareholders, contradictory to South African tax principles, anachronistic, or not suited for the underlying global-entity approach in the South African regulations. The research provides an updated assessment of the current state of the South African CFC regulatory measures, when seen in a broader international context, and indicates areas that could be the subject of fruitful ongoing investigation. / PhD (Tax), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014

Globalisation of trade and investment has led multinational enterprises to develop strategies to maximise profits by investing in countries with a favourable tax climate, resulting in loss of tax revenue to domestic economies. In South Africa, recent economic liberalisation and associated relaxation of exchange controls have created increasing exposure to global competition, risk of capital flight and potential threat to the tax base. Heeding OECD recommendations intended to counter negative tax implications for domestic economies and curb harmful tax practices, South Africa introduced controlled foreign company provisions initially in 1997, followed by comprehensive legislation in 2001. Appropriateness of South Africa’s CFC regulations as domestic anti-avoidance measures is assessed in this study for their relevance in the international fiscal arena, highlighting key divergences, shortcomings and anomalies in the South African regulations compared with OECD recommendations, and with regulatory measures in the United Kingdom (jurisdictional-entity approach) and the United States (transactional approach), these two examplars offering paradigms of the most important CFC regulatory approaches currently in force. The primary materials investigated in the study are the statutes which constitute the taxation laws, read in conjunction with auxiliary, quasi-statutory advisory and explanatory documentation issued by the respective regulatory authorities, along with test cases that established legal precedent on points of ambiguity in taxation law. A key finding in the literature review is the relative dearth of publications on current South African CFC regulations in an international comparative context. A paradigm shift is noted in United Kingdom tax policy, as it migrates towards a territorially inclined tax system in CFC regulations – more compatible with European Union (EU) requirements and propelled in large measure by EU-pressure – with a similar trend in United States tax policy, intended to rekindle expansion and growth of the United States economy through repatriation of foreign funds earned by CFCs. The study finds that it would be unrealistic to seek an absolute paradigm for reform or evolution of South African CFC regulations in either the United Kingdom or the United States, although the South African and United Kingdom CFC measures show significant affinities in their entity-based mechanisms to grant full exemption. More significant constituents of CFC regulation in one or another of the two countries do, however, prove to be generally congenial to the South African situation and offer useful pointers for ongoing reform of the South African measures. Other areas in the United Kingdom or United States CFC regulations are identified as less relevant to South African requirements, being linked to tax principles that would be excessively complicated in the South African circumstances, needlessly demanding for tax administrators and for South African shareholders, contradictory to South African tax principles, anachronistic, or not suited for the underlying global-entity approach in the South African regulations. The research provides an updated assessment of the current state of the South African CFC regulatory measures, when seen in a broader international context, and indicates areas that could be the subject of fruitful ongoing investigation. / PhD (Tax), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014

The main goal of this thesis is to provide a sociologically informed analysis of tax avoidance and tax evasion in contemporary Mexico and Sweden, focusing particular attention on the explanatory role of social networks, social interactions, and positive feedback mechanisms. Two major data sources are used: (1) A panel dataset that includes all persons, 16 years or older, who resided in Stockholm County during at least one of the years 1990 to 2003 (N=1,967,993). The dataset includes detailed information on the socio-demographic characteristics, kinship networks, and criminal offences of these individuals; (2) A random sample of 36,949 firms that appeared in the Mexican Federal Register of Taxpayers for the year 2002. The records of the Mexican Federal Administrative Fiscal Tribunal provided data on all types of tax claims appealed before them during the 2002-2008 period. A variety of approaches and techniques are used such as agent-based simulation models, discrete time event history models, random effect logit models, and hierarchical linear models. These models are used to test different hypotheses related to the role of social networks, social interactions, and positive feedback mechanisms in explaining tax behaviour. There are five major empirical findings. (1) Networks seem to matter for individuals' tax behaviour because exposure to tax crimes of family members appears to increase a person’s likelihood of committing a tax crime. (2) Positive feedback mechanisms appear relevant because if a person commits a tax crime, it seems to increase the likelihood that the person will commit more tax crimes in the future. (3) Positive feedback mechanisms are also important for explaining corporate tax behaviour because a firm that has engaged in legal tax avoidance in the past appears to be more likely to engage in tax avoidance in the future. (4) Network effects are important in the corporate world because exposure to the tax avoidance of other firms increase the propensity of a firm to engage in tax avoidance. (5) Substitution effects between tax evasion and tax avoidance are likely to exist because when tax evasion becomes more prevalent in a firm’s environment, their likelihood of engaging in legal tax avoidance is lowered. The results underscore the importance of a sociological perspective on tax behaviour that takes into account social interactions and positive feedback mechanisms. In order to understand microscopic as well as macroscopic tax evasion patterns, the results presented in this thesis suggest that much more attention must be given to mechanisms through which taxation crimes breed more taxation crimes.

University of Macau / Faculty of Law

The object of this research is the Personal Income Tax Research aim – to analyze of personal income tax, its administration in theory and practical activity, formulate proposals for a further personal income tax improvement. Objectives: - to exhibit tax essentiality, taxation principle; - to give shot overview of personal income tax history and personal income tax in foreign countries; - to analyze of personal income tax, to present its merits and demerits; - to analyze administration of personal income tax; - formulate proposals for a further personal income tax improvement Research methods: logical and comparative analysis and synthesis by specialized, Lithuanian and foreign authors, methods of logical and graphic modeling.

The purpose of this work is to determine the effect of legal regulation of tax administration at customs-house on the collection of taxes administered by the customs authorities, to determine and to analyze the most topical theoretical and practical problems in the area of tax administration at customs-house, and to search for the solution of these problems.

Discrimination concerning taxpayers is often found in every tax system, which allows double tax burden to happen. It is for this reason that agreements such as the Double Taxation conventions and the Andean Community Resolution 578 arise, which refer to the non discrimination principle. In the following article, the author proposes a new way to interpret this non-discrimination principle contained in the Andean Community Resolution 578, analyzing Peru's context and legislation in order to determine how to solve this problem when, for example, there is a differentiated treatment and a consequent unfair taxation to those who domicile abroad. / La discriminación de los contribuyentes en el ámbito tributario es un fenómeno que ocurre constantemente y que puede contribuir a que se dé la doble carga fiscal. Es por este motivo que surgen acuerdos como los Convenios para Evitar la Doble Imposición y la Decisión 578 de la Comunidad Andina de Naciones, que hacen referencia al principio de no discriminación. En este artículo, el autor propone una forma de interpretar el principio de no discriminación contenido en la Decisión 578 analizando el contexto y legislación del Perú para determinar cómo solucionar este problema cuando, por ejemplo, en asuntos vinculados a la imposición por domicilio, haya un trato diferenciado.

Submitted by Edileide Reis (leyde-landy@hotmail.com) on 2013-04-11T20:05:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Souza.pdf: 1936123 bytes, checksum: 0a640fce015fa0ed3bfb7ba212113281 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Rodrigo Meirelles(rodrigomei@ufba.br) on 2013-05-09T17:20:43Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Souza.pdf: 1936123 bytes, checksum: 0a640fce015fa0ed3bfb7ba212113281 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-09T17:20:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Souza.pdf: 1936123 bytes, checksum: 0a640fce015fa0ed3bfb7ba212113281 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / No âmbito federal o Processo Administrativo fiscal é regulamentado pelo Decreto nº 70.235/72 e tem por finalidade proporcionar um aperfeiçoamento do lançamento tributário definindo com maior segurança e precisão o credito tributário que o fisco entende ser devido. O julgamento de processos fiscais é feito por órgãos integrantes do Ministério da Fazenda que são as Delegacias de julgamento os Conselhos de Contribuintes e a Câmara Superior de Recursos Fiscais ficando evidente que o processo administrativo fiscal se constitui em procedimento interno de controle da legalidade dos atos da Administração Pública Federal. Sendo assim apesar das divergências doutrinárias o entendimento majoritário sempre foi o de que as decisões definitivas dele decorrentes e que fossem favoráveis ao contribuinte o desoneravam da obrigação tributária em discussão tendo em vista que a própria Administração Pública teria reconhecido a ilegalidade de seu ato consubstanciado através do Auto de Infração ou da Notificação Fiscal de Lançamento. Entretanto este pensamento foi questionado através do Parecer nº 1.087 da Procuradoria Geral da Fazenda Nacional (PGFN) de 23 de agosto de 2004 que entendeu ser possível juridicamente que uma decisão final favorável ao contribuinte proferida em Processo Administrativo fiscal fosse questionada no Poder Judiciário através da Procuradoria Geral Fiscal Nacional (PGFN). Em 25 de outubro de 2004 foi publicada a Portaria nº 820, que definiu as circunstâncias em que a PGFN poderia impetrar a hipotética ação. Tal situação reacendeu a discussão sobre o tema e tem suscitado grandes debates na área jurídica questionando-se inclusive, a constitucionalidade tanto do Parecer quanto da Portaria e originando o estudo a que se propõe o presente trabalho que ao final visa responder se é legalmente possível o Estado buscar a revisão de decisões administrativas em caráter definitivo na área tributária que lhe sejam desfavoráveis através do Poder Judiciário. / Salvador

Submitted by Rodrigo Abrantes Lamas (lamas.rodrigo@gmail.com) on 2016-09-16T14:16:21Z No. of bitstreams: 1 160916_Retorno Esperado da Evasão Fiscal para Empresas Brasileiras.pdf: 1388986 bytes, checksum: 16154b335160cb846a139191a6e8d5ab (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by GILSON ROCHA MIRANDA (gilson.miranda@fgv.br) on 2016-09-21T14:08:34Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 160916_Retorno Esperado da Evasão Fiscal para Empresas Brasileiras.pdf: 1388986 bytes, checksum: 16154b335160cb846a139191a6e8d5ab (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2016-09-23T12:39:09Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 160916_Retorno Esperado da Evasão Fiscal para Empresas Brasileiras.pdf: 1388986 bytes, checksum: 16154b335160cb846a139191a6e8d5ab (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-23T12:39:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 160916_Retorno Esperado da Evasão Fiscal para Empresas Brasileiras.pdf: 1388986 bytes, checksum: 16154b335160cb846a139191a6e8d5ab (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-29 / It presents a stylized model which aims to measure the gain expected by Brazilian companies when they decide to deliberately evade their profits, incurring therefore in some probability of financial loss due to successful enforcement. To verify the adherence of the Brazilian business environment model, needed to the creation of a database containing the historical series of empirical probability of audits by the Receita Federal in domestic companies. Observing the data created and policy actions available based on the own Receita Federal publications, it is concluded that (i) present the probability of a Brazilian company being audited by the Receita Federal is less than 0.5%, (ii) actions recent Receita Federal are aligned with the expected by the inspection agent model and (ii) tax evasion can be seen as a rational investment decision in risky asset when done by 'small taxpayers'. / Apresenta-se um modelo estilizado onde se pretende mensurar o ganho esperado por empresas brasileiras quando as mesmas decidem deliberadamente sonegar os seus lucros, incorrendo, portanto, em alguma probabilidade de prejuízo financeiro decorrente de fiscalização bem sucedida. Para se verificar a aderência do modelo ao ambiente empresarial brasileiro, necessitou-se da criação de uma base de dados contendo a série histórica da probabilidade empírica de auditorias por parte da Receita Federal nas empresas nacionais. Observando a base de dados criada e ações de política disponíveis em publicações da própria Receita Federal, conclui-se que (i) atualmente a probabilidade de uma empresa brasileira ser auditada pela Receita Federal é menor do 0,5%, (ii) as ações recentes da Receita Federal são alinhadas com as esperadas pelo agente fiscalizador do modelo e que (ii) a sonegação pode ser vista como uma decisão racional de investimento em ativo de risco quando feita pelos 'pequenos contribuintes'.