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Aggrieved Taxpayers Versus Tax Authorities is an exceptionally handy, informative and insightful book that assesses the status of tax disputes of some representative countries and their historical and recent moves to attain a workable balance between the challenge of enhancing taxpayers’ access to justice and that of realizing speedier resolution of tax disputes. The countries highlighted are Japan, the United States (U.S.), the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, with the European Union represented by Ireland and the Netherlands, from all of which the author makes comparisons of their rules and practices affecting the status of tax disputes and their resolution.
What’s in this book:
In this book, the author discerns key common factors that significantly work toward increasing or decreasing the number of tax disputes in a country:
After summarizing how those factors work in those countries, the final chapter outlines reform options to strike a workable balance between the two challenges.
How this will help you:
In its extraction/analysis of highly disputed themes (e.g., in the case of the U.S., penalties, collection due process, innocent spouse relief, gross income, trade or business expenses), its identification of key factors that affect the number of tax disputes, and its cross-country comparison of how those factors are at work in tax law, procedures governing tax objections/litigations, etc., this trailblazing book delves deep into the issue of how some types of tax provisions are disputed more frequently than others. It will be highly appreciated by tax professionals and tax authorities in pursuing fairness and speedy resolution of tax disputes.
