As global economic paradigms shift and policymakers grapple with the realities of a deglobalizing world, prominent legal and economic scholars are rethinking the boundaries of corporate taxation. At the center of this renewed debate is a forthcoming Tax Law Review article titled “Taxation and Deglobalization,” authored by distinguished legal scholar Reuven Avi-Yonah. Avi-Yonah’s provocative thesis…
WASHINGTON — In the ever-evolving debate over international tax reform, a seductive economic theory has steadily gained traction among legal scholars and progressive economists: if a government fixes its corporate tax base—most notably by implementing full expensing and closing profit-shifting loopholes—the economic penalties of high tax rates effectively vanish. This conceptual framework has now been…
Main Facts A provocative upcoming paper in the Tax Law Review, titled “Taxation and Deglobalization” by prominent legal scholar Reuven Avi-Yonah, has ignited a fierce debate among economists and tax policy analysts. Avi-Yonah argues that if governments implement comprehensive structural reforms to the corporate tax base—specifically incorporating full expensing for capital investments and measures to…
