A return to sovereign risk
Source: Taxation In Australia Journal Article
Published Date: 1 Jul 2012
The term “sovereign risk” originally referred to the risk that a government might default on its debt or loan obligations. More recently, the term has come to have a wider meaning and, typically in this wider context, it involves changing the rules in the middle of the game so that people who have made investment decisions and structured their enterprise on the basis of the assurances as to what the government will do find that those assurances have proven valueless. In the author’s view, Australian taxation policy unfortunately now exhibits many features of this broader concept of sovereign risk.
Among these are taxes imposed contrary to specific undertakings, retrospective legislation, unknown legislative rules, inappropriate considerations being taken into account in legislative policy, and the changed treatment of existing long-term investments. Recent developments in each of these aspects of taxation governance are considered in turn in this article.
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- Published By: David Russell CTA-Life
- Published On:1 Jul 2012
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