Bibliographie sélective OHADA

The impacts of the economy’s digitalisation process on taxation have become the central theme of international tax law in recent years, causing several reactions among actors in this field. The OECD has become the main forum for debate, causing government bodies, taxpayers, and academia to gravitate around the organisation’s texts. Nonetheless, the digital economy tax debate has constantly changed, taking on new languages and adopting different perspectives. From a formal legal discussion concerned with characterising payments to apply international tax treaties, the debate moved to an economic perspective involving substance. Finally, it took on a manifest political connotation, resulting in a re-discussion of the international tax field itself. This thesis aims to understand how and why the digitalisation of the economy managed to impact the fundamentals that support the international tax field. The work adopts a legal, realistic, and discursive perspective to achieve its objective, understanding international tax law as a field formed from historically identifiable events. In this case, while a social phenomenon, international taxation is the central object of a project that manifests itself both in the institutional and intellectual plane. In turn, the digitalisation of the economy results from a technological revolution characterised by the centrality of informational phenomenology. Such centrality is responsible for a social transformation process affecting the tax field’s institutional and intellectual dimensions. In this scenario, actors in the field perceive their inability to deal with the new digital reality from the conceptual tools provided by the tax legal discourse. The result is a paradigm shift with the potential to affect not only the field’s social practice but its very significance within an intellectual project for constructing the human dimension.

Issue: 2021PA01D020