Download or read book Responses to Tax Treaty Shopping written by David G. Duff and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last 40 years, the world has experienced exponential growth in international trade and investment, as well as the number of bilateral tax treaties which now number roughly 3,000. As the globalization of economic activity has greatly increased opportunities for tax avoidance and evasion, so also has the expansion of the international tax treaty network increased opportunities for taxpayers to take advantage of domestic tax rules and bilateral tax treaties by arranging their affairs in ways that reduce taxes otherwise owing or eliminate them altogether. Regarding many of these arrangements as abusive treaty shopping, the OECD and several member jurisdictions have adopted various responses to this phenomenon, involving the interpretation of treaties as the well as the introduction and application of anti-avoidance rules in domestic law and tax treaties. This paper reviews and evaluates these responses to treaty shopping, providing a comparative examination of developments in various jurisdictions. Part II discusses the concept of treaty shopping, defining this term for the purposes of this analysis, providing a few examples for illustrative purposes, and explaining why treaty shopping is problematic on policy grounds. Part III considers interpretive responses to abusive treaty shopping, examining recent cases and commentary on the concepts of “residence” and “beneficial ownership” as well as the existence of an anti-abuse principle inherent in tax treaties and international law. Part IV addresses specific and general anti-avoidance rules, both domestic rules and their relationship to tax treaties as well as anti-avoidance rules contained in tax treaties themselves. Based on this analysis, Part V provides general conclusions.
Download or read book OECD G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Project Prevention of Tax Treaty Abuse Fourth Peer Review Report on Treaty Shopping Inclusive Framework on BEPS Action 6 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the BEPS Action 6 minimum standard on treaty shopping, members of the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS have committed to strengthen their tax treaties by implementing anti-abuse measures. This report reflects the outcome of the fourth peer review of the implementation of the BEPS Action 6 minimum standard on treaty shopping.
Download or read book OECD G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Project Prevention of Tax Treaty Abuse Fifth Peer Review Report on Treaty Shopping Inclusive Framework on BEPS Action 6 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the BEPS Action 6 minimum standard on treaty shopping, members of the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS have committed to strengthen their tax treaties by implementing anti-abuse measures. This report reflects the outcome of the fifth peer review of the implementation of the BEPS Action 6 minimum standard on treaty shopping.
Download or read book OECD G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Project Prevention of Tax Treaty Abuse Sixth Peer Review Report on Treaty Shopping Inclusive Framework on BEPS Action 6 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-20 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the BEPS Action 6 minimum standard on treaty shopping, members of the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS have committed to strengthen their tax treaties by implementing anti-abuse measures. This report reflects the outcome of the sixth peer review of the implementation of the BEPS Action 6 minimum standard on treaty shopping.
Download or read book OECD G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Project Prevention of Tax Treaty Abuse Third Peer Review Report on Treaty Shopping Inclusive Framework on BEPS Action 6 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The BEPS Action 6 minimum standard on preventing the granting of treaty benefits in inappropriate circumstances, is one of the four BEPS minimum standards that all members of the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS (Inclusive Framework) have committed to implement. This report reflects the outcome of the third peer review of the implementation of the Action 6 minimum standard on treaty shopping as approved by the Inclusive Framework.
Download or read book How Can the Multilateral Tax Treaty Solve the Treaty Shopping Issue written by De Roni Marco and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the currently main challenges of International Tax Law is addressing the treaty abuse deployed by various multinationals. These, leveraging on their freedom of movement and establishment, have the chance to refine and enlighten their tax burdens by involving third countries and their tax relationships, eventually achieving arguable and controversial profits. At this regard, seen the inefficiency of Bilateral Tax Treaties and the constraints arising from European Law, various legal devices were tested but none of them led to a proper solution. The countermeasure planned by the OECD may finally help resolving these issues: a Multilateral Tax Treaty. Yet, this still needs a proper tailoring, hence why an International Conference was announced for 2015. Therefore, what is a Multilateral Tax Treaty and can it face this challenge? How should it be drafted and which provisions should it contain? With this paper, I will try to provide an answer to these questions above and explaining how a possible failure could lead to a utterly grim scenario. Moreover, based on both current knowledge and personal prompts, I will try to hypothesise which provisions should this contain.
Download or read book How Can the Multilateral Tax Treaty Help Overcoming the Treaty Shopping Issue written by Marco De Roni and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the currently main challenges of International Tax Law is addressing the treaty abuse deployed by various multinationals. These, by taking advantage of their freedom of movement and establishment, have the chance to refine and enlighten their tax burdens by involving third countries and their tax relationship, therefore gaining arguable and controversial profits.This phenomenon has steadily grown, reaching nowadays the extent where many countries around the world are concerned given the fewer tax revenues. Amongst the most infamous business, newspapers reported Apple, Google, Ikea, Pepsi, Amazon and P&G, whose strategies proved being effective.What is now left to the countries is finding a strategy to curb abuses of law. At this regard, seen the inefficiency of Bilateral Tax Treaties, various legal devices were tested along the years but none of them led to a proper solution. Moreover, constraints arising from European Law may look like inflicting the coup de grace on the residual hope.Although it would look consequent that Tax Law cannot offer a proper antidote, the countermeasure planned by the OECD may finally help resolving these issues: a Multilateral Tax Treaty.With it, it would be possible to involve several countries in a single lawsuit, thus facilitating exchange of information and sharing of opinions.Yet, a Multilateral Treaty in this field, although wished for since almost two decades, still needs a proper tailoring to the current panorama with the right legal measures and this is why an International Conference was announced for 2015.Therefore, what is a Multilateral Tax Treaty and can it face this challenge? How should it be drafted and which provisions should it contain? Are there alternatives to it?With this thesis, I will try to provide an answer to these questions above and explaining how a possible failure could lead to an utterly grim scenario. Moreover, based on both current knowledge and personal prompts, I will try to hypothesise which provisions should this contain, by taking into account past successes and failures of similar treaties and legal principles of International law.
Download or read book Treaty Shopping written by Helmut Becker (Rechtsanwalt.) and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-07-13 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept treaty shopping is explained. The papers prepared as a response to the questionnaire from different countries for an International Workshop of Deloitte Haskins & Sells in Düsseldorf, Germany is published. The countries covered are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, German Federal Republic, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the USA.
Download or read book Tax Treaty Abuse written by Geoffrey Loomer and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It hardly needs repeating that the existing income tax treaty system struggles under the weight of global economic integration. Liberalization of state economies and transnational integration of businesses disturb the foundations upon which the tax treaty system is based. These phenomena also create opportunities for the unintended use or 'abuse' of tax treaties. This paper explores the means by which tax authorities worldwide seek to strengthen their tax treaties, through safeguards of varying nature and scope, in order to identify and prevent what they consider to be abuse of such treaties. These means of challenge may be grouped under two headings: purposive approaches to treaty interpretation, particularly with respect to the terms 'person', 'resident' and 'beneficial ownership'; and broader responses to unacceptable tax avoidance, specifically reliance on treaty anti-abuse principles and domestic anti-avoidance rules. The Canadian response is evinced by two recent cases in which the government unsuccessfully challenged 'treaty shopping' arrangements, MIL (Investments) SA v Canada and Prevost Car Inc v Canada. Building on the existing literature regarding treaty shopping and other forms of treaty abuse, this work seeks not only to describe and explain the responses to treaty abuse but to make a critical inquiry into the essence of such abuse, particularly as it appears to be viewed by the Canadian revenue authorities. It is argued that the Canadian response to tax treaty abuse is inadequate, largely because it conflates multiple approaches and fails to address a key concern: the existence or lack of genuine economic establishment in the treaty state. The paper concludes with some suggestions for fashioning a more coherent and intellectually honest response to tax treaty abuse.
Download or read book International Tax Policy and Double Tax Treaties written by Kevin Holmes and published by IBFD. This book was released on 2007 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the concepts that underlie international tax law and double tax treaties and provides an insight into how international tax policy, law and practice operate to ultimately impose tax on international business and investment.
Download or read book Tax Treaties and Domestic Law written by Guglielmo Maisto and published by IBFD. This book was released on 2006 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the relationships between tax treaties and domestic law from a constitutional and an international point of view, and how they can be improved in the fields of treaty override, treaty residence and anti-abuse measures. It also shows how the issues raised by these relationships are resolved by tax administrations and courts in selected European and non-European countries.
Download or read book The Improper Use of Tax Treaties With Particular Reference to the Netherlands and the United States written by Stef Weeghel and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 1998-03-27 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With particular reference to the Netherlands and the United States."--T.p.
Download or read book Tax Treaties Building Bridges between Law and Economics written by and published by IBFD. This book was released on 2010 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book experts from the field of economics take a different view of tax treaty issues than experts from the field of law. In order to encourage the much needed communication between these two groups, a cross-disciplinary conference was held to discuss selected tax treaty issues from both a legal and economic perspective. Twenty-five conference papers on eight topics were prepared by lawyers and economists. The papers on legal issues were presented and discussed by economists, and vice versa. The interdisciplinary focus of the conference not only allowed an exchange of knowledge between two groups who think differently about similar issues, but also made it possible to better grasp the impact of the thinking of one group on the areas of interest to the other group. The outcome of the conference is reflected in this book. By showing the legal and the economic approaches to an issue, this book improves the general understanding of the two disciplines and demonstrates how the decisions in one discipline may influence the other discipline and its concepts. Twenty-two contributions are included, written by the most distinguished academics, practitioners and representatives of several international tax administrations and both tax and economic institutions.
Download or read book International Corporate Tax Avoidance A Review of the Channels Magnitudes and Blind Spots written by Sebastian Beer and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reviews the rapidly growing empirical literature on international tax avoidance by multinational corporations. It surveys evidence on main channels of corporate tax avoidance including transfer mispricing, international debt shifting, treaty shopping, tax deferral and corporate inversions. Moreover, it performs a meta analysis of the extensive literature that estimates the overall size of profit shifting. We find that the literature suggests that, on average, a 1 percentage-point lower corporate tax rate will expand before-tax income by 1 percent—an effect that is larger than reported as the consensus estimate in previous surveys and tends to be increasing over time. The literature on tax avoidance still has several unresolved puzzles and blind spots that require further research.
Download or read book U S Tax Guide for Aliens written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tax Avoidance in Sub Saharan Africa s Mining Sector written by Ms. Giorgia Albertin and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper aims to contribute to the international policy debate around profit shifting, tax avoidance and SSA’s revenue mobilization efforts in three ways. First, it examines the importance of mining, the role of multinational enterprises (MNEs), and mining revenue outcomes in SSA. Second, it assesses the magnitude of profit shifting in mining drawing on new macro level research, supplemented by case studies to illustrate the lived experience of tax avoidance in SSA mining. Third, the paper identifies tax policy reforms that could boost revenue mobilization in SSA.
Download or read book International Tax as International Law written by Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how the tax rules of the various countries in the world interact with one another to form an international tax regime: a set of principles embodied in both domestic legislation and treaties that significantly limits the ability of countries to choose any tax rules they please. The growth of this international tax regime is an important part of the phenomenon of globalization, and the book delves into how tax revenues are divided among different countries. It also explains how U.S. tax rules in particular apply to cross-border transactions and how they embody the norms of the international tax regime.
