2020s

15 entries

Tea Tax India 2025

Tax LawEvent2025

India is the second largest tea producer in the world. Tea has historically been taxed through GST a...

Pandora Papers

Tax EvasionEvent2021

The Pandora Papers, leaked in 2021, were 11.9 million documents from 14 offshore service providers. ...

Global Minimum Tax

Tax LawEvent2021

The global minimum tax, agreed by over 140 countries in October 2021, sets a 15 percent minimum effe...

GAO Tax Gap

Tax AdministrationEvent2022

The US tax gap is the difference between taxes owed and taxes collected on time. The IRS estimates t...

NFT Tax Implications

Tax LawEvent2021

NFTs create complex tax issues. Buying an NFT with cryptocurrency triggers a capital gains event on ...

Digital Currency Taxation

Tax LawEvent2020

Central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, create new tax issues. Unlike cash, CBDC transactions cou...

IRS Funding Debate

Tax AdministrationEvent2022

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 provided 80 billion in additional IRS funding over 10 years. The...

Pelosi Stock Trading

Tax EvasionEvent2021

The STOCK Act of 2012 prohibited members of Congress from using nonpublic information for personal i...

IRS Direct File

Tax AdministrationEvent2024

IRS Direct File launched as a pilot program in 12 states for the 2024 filing season. Direct File is ...

Plastic Tax

Tax LawEvent2021

Plastic taxes aim to reduce plastic waste and encourage recycling. The UK Plastic Packaging Tax, lau...

Nitrogen Tax

Tax LawEvent2021

The Netherlands faced massive farmer protests over nitrogen emission regulations. Dutch courts ruled...

Carbon Border Tax EU

Tax LawEvent2023

The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism CBAM started its transitional phase in October 2023. CBAM ...

Capital Gains Realization

Tax LawEvent2021

The debate over taxing unrealized capital gains intensified in 2021 when Senator Ron Wyden proposed ...

Buy Borrow Die

Tax AvoidanceEvent2020

Buy borrow die is a tax avoidance strategy used by ultra wealthy Americans. The strategy works as fo...

IRS Customer Service

Tax AdministrationEvent2022

IRS customer service reached its worst point during the COVID pandemic. In 2022, the IRS answered on...