The political economy of corporation tax
Subtitle: theory, values and law reform
By: John Snape
Publisher: Hart Pub.; Hart Publishing
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781849460286
Subjects: Corporations; Taxation; Law and legislation; Economic aspects; Political aspects
Description: "Excellent technical writing on corporation tax abounds, but it tends to be inaccessible to public lawyers, political theorists and political economists. Although recent years have seen not only an explosion in public law scholarship but also a reawakening of interest in interpretative political theory and political economy, the potential of these perspectives to illuminate the corporation tax debate has remained unexplored. In this important work, John Snape seeks to reconcile these disparate strands of scholarship and to contribute to a new way of understanding and conceptualising the reform of the law relating to corporate taxation. Drawing on important developments in public law scholarship, the study combines elements of political theory and political economy. It advances a new interpretation of corporation tax law as an instrument of rule, through the maximisation of a nation's economic potential. Snape shows how corporate taxation belongs at the centre of any discussion of economic globalisation, not only because of the potential of national tax systems to influence inward investment decisions but also because of the potential of those decisions to shape the public interest that those tax systems might embody. Following public law and politics models, the book looks afresh at the impact of Britain's political institutions, of the processes of its representative government and of the theory that moulds and orders the values that the corporation tax code contains. This is a timely exploration of cutting-edge issues of public policy"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-254) and index.
Table of contents: title: A theory of corporate tax reform; title: The reformers; title: The process of reform; title: The evolving corporation tax base.