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Starting in 1964, in conjunction with Democratic President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s “New Society,” the government threatened to withhold federal funding for health, education, and other state and local programs from jurisdictions that resisted legislative and judicial desegregation orders.
In Defense of Swiss BankingGENEVA – Leaders of the G-20 have now declared that “the era of banking secrecy is over,” and have threatened to take action against “non-cooperative jurisdictions, including tax havens.”
But it would not reduce incentives for US corporations to shift their reported profits to low-tax jurisdictions; on the contrary, such incentives would be even stronger in a pure territorial system.
Finally, the information revolution provides inexpensive means of communication and organization that allow groups once restricted to local and national police jurisdictions to become global.
But the reality is that governments and geographical jurisdictions have always played a central role in regulating the Internet – or at least have tried.
The governance challenge stems from the fact that cyberspace is a combination of virtual properties, which defy geographical boundaries, and physical infrastructure, which fall under sovereign jurisdictions.
Linguistic fragmentation, unfamiliar religious and racial customs, different attitudes toward gender relationships -- all seem to undermine the cozy identity that Europeans and Americans associate with territorial jurisdictions.
Here, several proposals have already been put forward, including a universal basic income, currently being piloted in Finland and some sub-national jurisdictions such as Ontario, Canada; a negative income tax; and various types of portable social security accounts that pool workers’ benefits.
If people are able to migrate, they will move to jurisdictions with the mix of taxes and services (e.g., quality schools) that they prefer.
There are important differences among jurisdictions.
Such a change would reduce corporations’ incentives to move investments abroad or shift profits to low-tax jurisdictions, while increasing the progressivity of tax outcomes by shifting more of the burden of corporate taxation from labor to capital owners.
Incest between adults is not a crime in all jurisdictions.
This puts China in a difficult position in relation to the so-called international system – the structures and rules created by the United States and others after the Second World War to check national sovereignty through a system of overlapping jurisdictions, transnational obligations, and fundamental rights.
It is time for the EU to introduce a single social-security identifier that allows governments to track workers as they move from one country to another and ensures that welfare benefits are portable across national jurisdictions.
Europe needs a system capable of monitoring worker mobility across national jurisdictions and tracking their contributions as they relocate from one member state to another.
By contrast, the US adheres to a “worldwide" model, which subjects American companies' foreign earnings to US corporate tax, with a credit for taxes paid in foreign jurisdictions.
They would instead become more attractive targets for foreign acquirers and would have even stronger incentives to move their headquarters, R&D, and future intellectual property to lower-tax jurisdictions with territorial systems.
Notice the hundred-fold divergence across political jurisdictions in relative levels of economic productivity and prosperity?
The second explanation focuses on conflict among agencies with overlapping jurisdictions, both within and across countries.
Opponents of estate taxes offer three reasons why they could dampen economic growth: entrepreneurs will be reluctant to expand their companies if they cannot leave their wealth to their children; small firms will risk collapse when their owners die if their heirs cannot pay the taxes; and companies will flee to lower-tax jurisdictions or engage in costly and unproductive tax avoidance.
Companies that do this well will be able to design better products, at lower costs; but they will achieve significant gains only if they can compare data across borders and jurisdictions.
Financial institutions should also not do business with non-cooperative jurisdictions – areas that don’t comply with the rules.
Just as US President Donald Trump was touting the accomplishments of his first 100 days in office, a federal court, responding to a legal complaint brought by several jurisdictions, temporarily blocked his executive order to strip federal funding from “sanctuary” states and cities.
Harley-Davidson recently announced that it would move some of its operations to jurisdictions not subject to the European Union’s retaliatory measures adopted in response to Trump’s tariffs on imported steel and aluminum.
The gap between GDP and GNI will likely close soon in other jurisdictions, too.
Bankers, on the other hand, are presiding over large institutions that have many lines of business in a wide variety of jurisdictions.
Without the ECJ’s doctrines of “direct effect” and “primacy,” and without national courts that are willing to enforce these doctrines in their own jurisdictions, the EU most likely would not have attained the level of integration that it has.
The reason is simple: the lack of credible property rights under Putin’s system of crony capitalism forces senior Russian officials and oligarchs to hold their money abroad, largely within the jurisdictions of the Western governments against which Putin rails.
When holdouts are rewarded by court decisions, and the rights of recalcitrant creditors are recognized in other jurisdictions, efforts at “voluntary” restructuring become unsustainable.
For another, the debt was highly complex, involving 152 types of bonds, six currencies, and eight jurisdictions.
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