TY - JOUR AU - Bradford,David F. AU - Ault,Hugh J. TI - Taxing International Income: An Analysis of the U.S. System and Its Economic Premises JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 3056 PY - 1990 Y2 - December 1990 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3056 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3056.pdf N1 - Author contact info: David F. Bradford Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544-1013 Tel: 609/258-1856 Fax: 609/258-2809 E-Mail: BRADFORD@PRINCETON.EDU Hugh J. Ault M1 - published as Hugh J. Ault, David F. Bradford. "Taxing International Income: An Analysis of the U.S. System and Its Economic Premises," in Assaf Razin and Joel Slemrod, editors, "Taxation in the Global Economy" University of Chicago Press, 1990 (1990) AB - This paper describes the basic U.S. legal rules that govern the taxation of international transactions and explores the economic policies or principles they reflect. Particular attention is paid to the changes made by the Tax Reform Act of 1986, but it is impossible to understand the 1986 Act changes without placing them in the context of the general taxing system applicable to international transactions. The exposition is intended to be intelligible to readers with either legal or economic training. ER -