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Note on pre-taxation reported data by UK FTSE-listed companies. A search for Benford's laws compatibility
Marcel Ausloos, Probowo Erawan Sastroredjo, Polina Khrennikova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09415

Note on pre-taxation reported data by UK FTSE-listed companies. A search for Benford's laws compatibility
Pre-taxation analysis plays a crucial role in ensuring the fairness of public revenue collection. It can also serve as a tool to reduce the risk of tax avoidance, one of the UK government's concerns. Our report utilises pre-tax income ($PI$) and total assets ($TA$) data from 567 companies listed on the FTSE All-Share index, gathered from the Refinitiv EIKON database, covering 14 years, i.e., the period from 2009 to 2022. We also derive the $PI/TA$ ratio, and distinguish between positive and neg…

A comparison of 🇳🇴 Norway and 🇿🇦 South Africa when it comes to electric vehicle taxation: “There, cars drive on the left side of the road, the sun is in the north at midday and the cars that pollute the least, namely electric cars, have the highest taxes.”
https://elbil.no/those-who-do-not-poll

Interesting that some who replied to my post on tax and GDP growth yesterday missed the point.
The point isn't to debate whether tax -> growth (it might, with a tail wind).
The point is that
1) Growth won't happen like it used to.
2) That is good because GDP growth is ecologically and socially lethal.
3) So our leaders (sic) had better adapt to the new reality and use taxation and other measures to build a better, fairer future.
More here:

Getting Real about the Crises Facing the UK | Stop the Damage! Build a Better Future!
Britain and the rest of the world face a set of almost intractable challenges, ecological (including climate), economic and social. Yet political leaders with few exceptions are failing to propose the actions and policies that could address the scale of this pancrisis. Here though is an alternative initiative, a kind of alternative manifesto with a portfolio of illustrative policies...

'Taxation without representation':
Prof. Tribe breaks down Trump's loss on tariffs in appeals court
https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/-taxation-without-represent…

'Taxation without representation': Prof. Tribe breaks down Trump's loss on tariffs in appeals court
Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe speaks to MSNBC’s Ali Velshi about the next steps after a federal appeals court declared most of the Trump tariffs under IEEPA illegal. 

Variable annuities: A closer look at ratchet guarantees, hybrid contract designs, and taxation
Jennifer Alonso-Garcia, Len Patrick Dominic M. Garces, Jonathan Ziveyi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07358

Variable annuities: A closer look at ratchet guarantees, hybrid contract designs, and taxation
This paper investigates optimal withdrawal strategies and behavior of policyholders in a variable annuity (VA) contract with a guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefit (GMWB) rider incorporating taxation and a ratchet mechanism for enhancing the benefit base during the life of the contract. Mathematically, this is accomplished by solving a backward dynamic programming problem associated with optimizing the discounted risk-neutral expectation of cash flows from the contract. Furthermore, reflecting…

Les idées reçues sur la taxation des plus fortunés - YouTube
#Politique #france

Zero-Knowledge Proof-of-Location Protocols for Vehicle Subsidies and Taxation Compliance
Dan Bogdanov, Eduardo Brito, Annika Jaakson, Peeter Laud, Raul-Martin Rebane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16812

Zero-Knowledge Proof-of-Location Protocols for Vehicle Subsidies and Taxation Compliance
This paper introduces a new set of privacy-preserving mechanisms for verifying compliance with location-based policies for vehicle taxation, or for (electric) vehicle (EV) subsidies, using Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs). We present the design and evaluation of a Zero-Knowledge Proof-of-Location (ZK-PoL) system that ensures a vehicle's adherence to territorial driving requirements without disclosing specific location data, hence maintaining user privacy. Our findings suggest a promising approach t…

What if Roko’s Basilisk turns out to be an AI that imposes confiscatory taxation on the wealthy?
https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115125035104573217

DRAssist: Dispute Resolution Assistance using Large Language Models
Sachin Pawar, Manoj Apte, Girish K. Palshikar, Basit Ali, Nitin Ramrakhiyani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01962

DRAssist: Dispute Resolution Assistance using Large Language Models
Disputes between two parties occur in almost all domains such as taxation, insurance, banking, healthcare, etc. The disputes are generally resolved in a specific forum (e.g., consumer court) where facts are presented, points of disagreement are discussed, arguments as well as specific demands of the parties are heard, and finally a human judge resolves the dispute by often favouring one of the two parties. In this paper, we explore the use of large language models (LLMs) as assistants for the h…

"Reason magazine editor at large Nick Gillespie opined that Trump was "acting like a king — King George III" and celebrated the ruling by proclaiming: "No taxation without representation!"
'Lunatic stuff': Conservatives mock Trump's 'insane statement' after tariffs ruled illegal - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-insane-statement-tariffs/

"Cut electricity bills by scrapping green levies, say Labour MPs"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy

Cut electricity bills by scrapping green levies, say Labour MPs
MPs want to see levies to help fund renewable energy projects and provide support for lower-income households to be moved onto gas bills or into general taxation.

Finally some good news!
The sentencing judge imposed a 12-month good behaviour bond and described his offending as having occurred in "extenuating circumstances"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-28/ato-whistleblower-richard-boyle-…

ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle spared convictions, jail sentence
Australian Taxation Office whistleblower Richard Boyle has avoided convictions and a jail sentence, seven years after publicly exposing aggressive debt collection practices at the tax office.

Bus services in Galloway have been catastrophically cut. This is because local government is broke, which is in turn because #SNP #ScotGov lacks the courage to reform local taxation.
I hadn't appreciated how bad the situation is because I've been ill since July and consequently haven't lef…

Disaster Risk Financing through Taxation: A Framework for Regional Participation in Collective Risk-Sharing
Fallou Niakh, Arthur Charpentier, Caroline Hillairet, Philipp Ratz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18895

Disaster Risk Financing through Taxation: A Framework for Regional Participation in Collective Risk-Sharing
We consider an economy composed of different risk profile regions wishing to be hedged against a disaster risk using multi-region catastrophe insurance. Such catastrophic events inherently have a systemic component; we consider situations where the insurer faces a non-zero probability of insolvency. To protect the regions against the risk of the insurer's default, we introduce a public-private partnership between the government and the insurer. When a disaster generates losses exceeding the tot…

A US appeals court ruled on Friday that most of Donald Trump’s new tariffs are illegal,
upholding a ruling from the federal court of international trade
that the president’s declaration of an economic emergency to justify sweeping tariffs violates a 1977 law and the US constitution,
which reserves taxation for the Congress.
The New York-based US court of international trade previously ruled against Trump’s tariff policies in May,
saying the president had exceede…

Replaced article(s) found for econ.GN. https://arxiv.org/list/econ.GN/new
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- Optimal taxation and the Domar-Musgrave effect
Brendan K. Beare, Alexis Akira Toda