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- Title
Tax Wars: How to End the Conflict Over Taxing Global Digital Commerce.
- Authors
Cockfield, Arthur J.
- Abstract
In the last two years, dozens of governments have proposed or implemented unilateral tax measures to tax foreign-based technology companies. The new tax innovations include special withholding taxes, diverted profit taxes, minimum taxes, and digital services taxes. The rise of these unilateral measures threatens an international tax "war" among governments that could stifle new business models or even the spread of the global digital economy. This Article reviews the failure of international reform efforts to constrain aggressive international tax planning, and how the global digital tax conflict masks a growing dissatisfaction with how to tax value associated with global transactions. The best way to address these global developments is through a coordinated solution that creates an economic presence test (a Quantitative Economic Presence Permanent Establishment) and modifies the division of tax revenues between countries (e.g., the Residual Profit Split by Income proposal).
- Subjects
INTERNATIONAL taxation; INTERNATIONAL trade; INTERNAL revenue; INTERNATIONAL competition; WITHHOLDING tax; TAX planning; PAYROLLS
- Publication
Berkeley Business Law Journal, 2020, Vol 17, Issue 2, p347
- ISSN
1548-7067
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15779/Z38H70815H