Tax earnings where products are sold

Alan Auerbach writes for The New York Times, Room for Debate, May 30, 2013

Our corporate tax is showing its age…. The fundamental problem is our reliance on the concepts of residence, or where a company is located, and source, or where the company’s assets and production activities are located. These concepts may have worked reasonably well in the 1930s, but they do not hold up when confronting a multinational company with global operations.