Dumitriu: cashflow tax should replace outdated corporation tax system

As the corporate tax system continues to struggle to cope with the modern economy, the Adam Smith Institute's Sam Dumitriu considers whether a cashflow tax based system would be a better deterrent to cross-border tax avoidance

Corporation tax worked relatively well before the internet, when most value was created from immobile physical capital. But it is no longer fit for purpose in our world of highly mobile intellectual property. Rather than tinkering around the edges the time has come to scrap it altogether and replace it with something better adapted to the modern world.

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