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Informal assets and liabilities and the definition of taxable income: The impact of social institutions on tax design
Published on 01 Nov 09 by "AUSTRALIAN TAX FORUM" JOURNAL ARTICLE
This paper follows the previously published paper “Informal Entities and the Tax Unit: The Impact of Social Institutions on Tax Design:” by continuing to look at the impact of social institutions on tax efficacy through exploring their impact on the concept of taxable income. To recap, Douglass C. North presented the seminal work on institutions and their relationship to economic performance. Essentially, institutions are “humanly devised constraints that shape human interaction”. An institution may be created by the state on the one hand (for example, statute law) or on the other hand by norms of social interaction, custom, traditions and codes of conduct.
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Nolan Sharkey
Dr. Nolan Sharkey is a Barrister at Francis Burt Chambers and Winthrop Professor of Law at the University Of Western Australia. He is also Professorial Fellow at Atax, UNSW in Sydney where he was based from 2000 to 2013. At Atax he delivered Masters units in international tax, DTAs, trust taxation and developed the first unit on Chinese tax outside of China. At UWA he teaches tax while at the bar he consults and advises on taxation. Nolan is widely published in leading journals. He is an FCA and holds degrees in law, accounting, Asian studies, psychology and tax. - Current at 15 April 2015
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