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Being a journalist covering Congress and national politics, I often hear from readers reacting via email to something I’ve reported, usually in positive terms but not always. Once in a while, a message comes soaked with insults and venom.

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Adam Kern (Princeton), Illusions of Justice in International Taxation, 48 Philosophy & Pub. Aff. ___ (2020):

International tax law determines which states may tax what. Despite its significance, its normative foundations are poorly understood—cursorily treated by tax experts, and almost entirely neglected by philosophers.

In this essay, I criticize a common way of thinking about justice in international taxation, and I propose an alternative. My critical target is a claim I call the Capture Principle. Common ground among many government officials, leading tax scholars, and several of the few philosophers who have thought about international taxation, the Capture Principle asserts that each state should have rights to tax income generated from economic activities within its territory. The Capture Principle appears to embody an ideal of reciprocity. I argue that this appearance is illusory. I examine three arguments that connect those two ideas, and I argue that each fails on its own terms.

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