Abstract:Informed by Aristotle's theory of justice and Reuven Avi-Yonah's views about goals of taxation, this article formulates a reciprocity-based framework for a systematic assessment of the normative merits and effectiveness of taxes, and tests this framework using the diverted profits tax (DPT) and the digital services tax (DST) imposed by the United Kingdom on some multinationals. This assessment is helpful in identifying changes in tax design and other conditions that may be necessary to make a particular tax "j… Show more
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