Keywords
Aggressive tax planning
International justice
International tax regime
Global tax agreement
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Abstract
The general framework of economic deregulation, mobility of production factors and digitalization of the economy accelerated the processes of harmful tax competition and aggressive tax planning, increasing the problems related to the determination of tax rights and the sharing of profits among States, and putting into question the rules of the international tax regime. Since the 2008 crisis, this regime has undergone important changes, with emphasis on the Global Tax Agreement, in 2021. Having as a theoretical reference the normative debate around questions of justice in the international tax regime, mainly based on cosmopolitanism and internationalism, this article analyzes this reform process.
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