This book fundamentally examines China's tax reform trajectory through a national strategic lens. Current debates on "tax burden fluctuations" in China are often distorted by interest-group narratives and emotionally charged rhetoric. By integrating international comparisons and interdisciplinary perspectives, the study exposes hidden agendas, debunks public misconceptions, and reconstructs analytical frameworks for tax governance. Taxation in international political economy now transcends traditional fiscal paradigmsit embodies both the core of state sovereignty and a critical lever for global wealth redistribution. It serves as both a cost-benefit calculus for governance legitimacy and a strategic fulcrum in global competition.

More importantly, this book is of groundbreaking significance for the study of the international political economy towards the redistribution of wealth under the conditions of digitization and virtual economy.

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Examines the fundamental orientation of China's tax system reform from a strategic national perspective Analyzes the evolution of tax sovereignty from a sovereign privilege to a geopolitical competition tool Exposes hidden agendas, debunks public misconceptions, and reconstructs analytical frameworks for tax governance

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Jie Zhang was a then-incumbent Senior Research Fellow at the CITIC Institute for Reform and Development and Senior Research Fellow at the Beijing Knowledge Security Engineering Center. He served as a CCTV Financial Commentator and Partner at Beijing Litian Law Firm. A Visiting Professor at China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), he holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Mr. Zhang has authored 11 influential books, including Pricing Power , Cyber Hegemony , and Digital Bubble , and published critical analyses in leading academic journals and policy platforms such as Outlook Weekly , Ziguangge ( Purple Light Pavilion ), and Global Finance . Recognized for his policy-oriented research, he was awarded the Best Policy Research Award by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in recognition of its impact on advancing China's strategic discourse.

Professor Zhang started his career as a lawyer from 1999 and was one of the main lawyers of the Zhuling incidient and started his own law firm from 2005; he also own and run real estate and private equity investment firms in Beijing from 2007. Aside from his career as a lawyer and investor, Professor Zhang started his teaching career from 2015 at CUPL's institute on Research on Investment in the Financial Market as a visiting professor.

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.- Chapter 1: Direct Taxes, Indirect Taxes, and Tax Sovereignty: Theoretical Foundations and Incidence Dynamics.

.- Chapter 2: Global Tax Jurisdiction Shift and Wealth Redistribution: Context, Mechanisms, and China's Approach in Competition of Global Tax Sovereignty.

.- Chapter 3:The Fiscal Nature of Financialization of Housing and Land: The Mechanism of Land Conveyance Fee from the Perspective of Tax Sovereignty.

.- Chapter 4: An Institutional Economics Analysis of Property Tax Policy Design: Tax Incidence and Distributional Effects.

.- Chapter 5: Comparative Study of Land Systems: An Institutional Economics Analysis of Hong Kong's Pre-Application System for Land AuctionsTheoretical Misrepresentations and Political Demands in Hong Kong's Land Conveyance Revenue System.

.- Chapter 6: U.S. Financial Bubbles and Tax Sovereignty via Seigniorage.

.- Chapter 7: The Contestation on Global Governance of Carbon Pricing Mechanisms: Carbon Tax as an Indirect Levy.

.- Chapter 8: Restructuring Fiscal Sovereignty under Monetary Paradigm Shifts: A Theoretical Framework Based on Medium Evolution.

.- Chapter 9: Research on Tax Structure and Income Distribution Equity: An Empirical Analysis Based on Tax Incidence Theory.