What is “Tax Justice”?

Naturally, a most urgent question was right from the beginning: "What, exactly, is Tax Justice and what are its defining characteristics?" Here, the following paper are available right now:

• Executive Summary: Ethical Theses on Tax Justice
• Short Version: Ethical considerations regarding Tax Justice (agreed by all participating institutions)

• I: Context Argument (Draft paper)
• II: Categories and Dimensions of Justice (Draft paper)
• III: Justice of Taxation (Discussion paper) tries to develop criteria with which to distinguish less just from just taxation
• IV: CST Relevance for taxation (Discussion Paper) elaborates implications of Catholic Social Teaching for developing fair and adequate taxation.
• V: The Church and Taxation (Draft Paper) reviews Bible, church history, papal statements etc. for passages dealing with tax relevant passages.

Ethical arguments are also contained in the research related papers

• Taxation and Transformation, Short Version and Long Version
• "Alternatives to taxation"

All papers are on our work in progress. Therefore we welcome feedback of any kind!