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\u003cp\u003eAlthough the details of tax law are literally endlessâdiffering not only from jurisdiction to jurisdiction but also from day-to-dayâstructures and patterns exist across tax systems that can be understood with relative ease. This book, now in an updated new edition, focuses on these essential patterns. It provides an immensely useful introduction to the core common knowledge that any well-informed tax lawyer or policy maker should have about comparative tax law in our times. The busy reader will welcome the compact nature of this work, which is shorter than the first edition and can be read in a weekend if one skips footnotes.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe authors elucidate the commonalities and differences across countries in areas including (much of the detail new to the second edition):\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e⢠general anti-avoidance rules;\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e⢠court decisions striking down tax laws as violating constitutional rules against retroactivity, unequal treatment of equals, confiscation, and undue vagueness;\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e⢠statutory interpretation;\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e⢠inflation adjustment rules and the allowance for corporate equity;\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e⢠value added tax systems;\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e⢠concepts such as âtaxâ, âcapital gainâ, âtax avoidanceâ, and âpartnershipâ;\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e⢠corporate-shareholder tax systems;\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e⢠the relationship between tax and financial accounting;\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e⢠taxation of investment income;\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e⢠tax authoritiesâ ability to obtain and process information about taxpayers; and\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e⢠systems of appeals from tax assessments.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe information and analysis pull together valuable material which is scattered over a disparate literature, much of it not available in English.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEspecially considering the dynamic nature of tax law, whose rate of change exceeds that of any other field of law, the authorsâ clear identification of the underlying patterns and fundamental structures that all tax systems have in commonâas well as where the differences lieâguides the reader and offers resources for further research.\u003c/p\u003e |