See Tax, n. We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride, and folly than we are taxed by government. The act of taxing, or assessing a bill of cost. The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members of a corporation or company, the raising of revenue. Finally, one more definition to assist us in our search for the meaning of our subject.
International tax is a subtopic of the main topic international law .
Professor Asif Quershi wrote the definitive book on this subject and it is addressed later in the course. International law is mainly the product of the conditions from time to time of international intercourse, being drawn from diplomatic discussion, textbooks, proof of usage, and from recitals in treaties. It is called public when treating of the relations of sovereign powers, and private when of the relations of persons of different nationalities. International law is now, by the better opinion, part of the common law of the land. Conflict of laws, under Conflict.