Download or read book Tax Sovereignty in the BEPS Era written by Sergio André Rocha and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2016-04-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of a country to freely design its tax system is generally understood to be an integral feature of sovereignty. However, as an inevitable result of globalization and income mobility, one country’s exercise of tax sovereignty often overlaps, interferes with, or even impedes that of another. In this collection of essays, internationally respected practitioners and academics reveal how the OECD’s Base Erosion and Pro t Shifting (BEPS) initiative, although a major step in the right direction, is insuf cient to resolve the tax sovereignty paradox. Each contribution deals with different facets of a single topic: How tax sovereignty is shaped in a post ,BEPS world. The contributors provide in ,depth analysis of such relevant issues as the following: hy multilateral cooperation and soft law consensus are the preferred solutions to a loss of autonomy over national tax policy; – how digital commerce has upended traditional notions of source and residence; – why residence and source continue to be the two essential building blocks of tax sovereignty and the backbone of the international tax system; – how developing countries can take advantage of the new international tax architecture to ensure that their voices are truly shaping the standards; and – transfer pricing reform. Collectively, the authors provide an authoritative commentary on the necessary preconditions for exercising the power to tax in today’s world. Their perspectives and recommendations will prove of great value to all policymakers, legislators, practitioners, and academics in the international taxation arena.
Download or read book International Tax Structures in the BEPS Era written by Madalina Cotrut and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tax planning structures used by some MNEs have become the bane of policymakers nowadays, at the OECD as well as the EU level, since recent statistics revealed public budgets were deprived of billions of euros. 0Within the context of recent developments in the tax arena, this book examines the anti-abuse measures that already exist in various countries and scrutinizes the effectiveness of these measures in countering aggressive tax structures. This work can be considered complementary to the reports issued or to be issued by the OECD, and to the recent activity at the EU level, as it provides an in-depth analysis of what is already happening in practice in various countries when they encounter abusive tax structures. It also highlights the challenges implicit in the recommended measures in the draft reports issued by the OECD up until 1 May 2015, with some exceptions. The book provides the reader with an analysis of the most common strategies against tax avoidance; the key concepts in international tax structuring, such as the use of permanent establishments and the exploitation of transfer pricing rules; and the intricacies of anti-abuse measures that counter tax structuring schemes used for financing activities and for selected business models, specifically related to supply chain management, IP migration and exploitation, the digital economy and holding companies.
Download or read book Double Non taxation and the Use of Hybrid Entities written by Leopoldo Parada and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topics of double non-taxation and hybrid entities have acquired a particular importance in a context where transformations within the tax world seem to be leading to an international commitment most materially manifested in the OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project. In what is the first systematic in-depth critique of the BEPS Action Plan 2 with regard to hybrid entities, this timely book provides a critical review of the OECD’s approach and proposes a deeply informed alternative method based on the tax policy aims of simplicity, coherence and ease of administration. The author analyses the interaction between the double non-taxation outcome and the use of hybrid entities in an approach not strictly linked to any specific tax jurisdiction. To this end, the analysis includes case studies and examples from a range of jurisdictions emphasizing the international tax context, including the application of tax treaties. Among the seminal matters covered are the following: – foundations of the concepts of double non-taxation and hybrid entities, absent of the specific limitations of domestic tax legislation; – extensive analysis based on the rules of characterization of foreign entities for tax purposes in the United States, Spain, Denmark and Germany, as well as on the Poland/United States and Canada/United States tax treaties; – detailed analysis on the implications of Article 1(2) OECD Model Tax Convention and Article 3(1) Multilateral Instrument, especially having in mind the position of developing (source) countries; and – EU tax law as part of the international context, including an extensive analysis on the EU Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive (ATAD) I and ATAD II. Detailed comparisons between the author’s proposal and other existing rules elucidate common points and deviations. If merely for its unparalleled clarification of the issues, this book will prove of immeasurable value to practitioners, tax authorities, policymakers and academics concerned with international tax law. Beyond that, as an authoritative guide that promises to reorient the discussion to what really matters in the debate regarding double non-taxation and hybrid entities, this analysis elaborates solutions applicable to a generality of cases worldwide, and thus hugely promotes the urgent quest for alternative solutions.
Download or read book Non Fiscal Tax Policies and State Sovereignty written by Giulio Allevato and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this interdisciplinary book, Giulio Allevato explores how the non-fiscal function of the taxing power has contributed to the establishment, consolidation, and maintenance of an effective power to govern in modern nation states. Innovative in its historical approach, this book illustrates how the link between non-budgetary tax policies and state sovereignty continues to play out in the current global landscape.
Download or read book A Multilateral Convention for Tax written by Sergio André Rocha and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (MLI) is the most forceful multilateral initiative to coordinate tax regimes on a worldwide basis since the dawn of modern income taxation over a century ago. This book evaluates two radically opposed viewpoints on the convention—a momentous and revolutionary paradigm shift versus a mechanism that merely continues an ongoing flow of limited policy coordination—with detailed investigations that bring to life the hopes and the realities of the current era of multilateral tax cooperation. Bringing together authors from national jurisdictions across the globe to scrutinize the MLI and its likely future ramifications, the book provides in-depth commentary and analysis in the following sequence: first, a comprehensive discussion of the design and goals of the MLI as a treaty and an institutional framework; second, an overview of the structure of the convention and its take-up across the globe to date; and third, the substantive implementation of the MLI with a wide range of country reports. Practice areas covered include tax law, international law, and international relations. The legal workings and implications of the MLI might still seem mysterious to those whose daily work is impacted by it, and there is as yet little jurisprudence regarding its legal nature or ultimate effect on the bilateral treaties coming within its scope. For these reasons, this pathbreaking book will be warmly welcomed by in-house counsel and law firms advising cross-border investors and firms; nongovernmental organizations involved in policy analysis and issue advocacy; researchers working on technical areas of international tax law; and lawyers interested in international policymaking, including the creation and diffusion of consensus-based fiscal and related regulatory norms across jurisdictions of differing development levels.
Download or read book Tax Design and Administration in a Post BEPS Era written by Kerrie Sadiq and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2015 the OECD released its roadmap to address Base Erosion and Profit Shifting - the largest reform of international tax the world has seen in a century. This volume is a comprehensive stock-take of the BEPS implementation that looks beyond a mere checklist of action or non-action to explore the experiences of 18 different jurisdictions.
Download or read book Optimization of Tax Sovereignty and Free Movement written by Sjoerd Douma and published by IBFD. This book was released on 2011 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book argues that the notions of tax sovereignty and EU free movement should be regarded as two fundamentally equal principles. The conflict between these two principles is resolved by establishing, in individual cases, the optimum position between two extremes: a general unrestricted freedom of action by states versus a prohibition of any obstacle to the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital. The process of reconciliation of these competing principles is structured by the theoretical optimization model developed in the present study. This model is external to the present case law. The application of the theoretical optimization model to the ECJ’s case law in the area of direct taxation reveals that this case law is largely in line with the model. It is certainly not as internally inconsistent as claimed in some of the tax literature. Many jigsaw pieces seem to fit after all if the case law is assessed in the light of the model. A number of future developments could be expected on the basis of the model and extensive case law analysis. The most important of these is that, in some cases, truly non-discriminatory tax measures should give rise to a prima facie restriction on free movement.
Download or read book INCLUSIVE GLOBAL TAX GOVERNANCE IN THE POST BEPS ERA written by SIEB. KINGMA and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tax sovereignty and the law in the digital and global economy written by Francesco Farri and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tax Abuse and Aggressive Tax Planning in the BEPS Era written by Paolo Piantavigna and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The article aims to demonstrate how EU law and the OECD are establishing a unifying conceptual framework in which the two different seminal phenomena, "tax abuse" and "aggressive tax planning", can be acknowledged in the new (global) operating environment. The purpose of this article is to critically assess the meaning of these concepts, broadly used in several EU and OECD soft law instruments. These concepts cannot be completely formalized or objectified, but the resulting uncertainty of their application can be reduced to an acceptable level. In the search for a useful reference point to delimit tax abuse from aggressive tax planning, particular attention is paid to the definitions conveyed (and the wording used) by EU institutions and the OECD. Indeed, the purpose of this article is also to establish a starting point for the discussion on linguistic discrepancies that can arise, and it provides for a preliminary categorization of them. Further to the analysis of these discrepancies, the article explains the reciprocal influences between the European Union and the OECD, and highlights how the promotion of a theoretical understanding and careful empirical handling of the relevant practices should enrich the discussion and foster consistent implications. In particular, how consensus on the development of a linguistic and conceptual framework could enhance the resolution of some issues is emphasized and, more specifically, to what extent EU law allows the base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) Project to be applied in the EU area, knowing that EU institutions cannot provide for any ex ante guarantee on the compliance of BEPS with EU law. To ensure that the important goals of global tax coordination - that the implementation of the BEPS Project implies - are achieved, this contribution aims to delineate preliminary clarifications in these areas.Full-text Paper.
Download or read book Tax Abuse and Aggressive Tax Planning in the BEPS Era how EU Law and the OECD are Establishing a Unifying Conceptual Framework in International Tax Law Despite Linguistic Discrepancies written by P. Piantavigna and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The article aims to demonstrate how EU law and the OECD are establishing a unifying conceptual framework in which the two different seminal phenomena, "tax abuse" and "aggressive tax planning", can be acknowledged in the new (global) operating environment. The purpose of this article is to critically assess the meaning of these concepts, broadly used in several EU and OECD soft law instruments. These concepts cannot be completely formalized or objectified, but the resulting uncertainty of their application can be reduced to an acceptable level. In the search for a useful reference point to delimit tax abuse from aggressive tax planning, particular attention is paid to the definitions conveyed (and the wording used) by EU institutions and the OECD. Indeed, the purpose of this article is also to establish a starting point for the discussion on linguistic discrepancies that can arise, and it provides for a preliminary categorization of them. Further to the analysis of these discrepancies, the article explains the reciprocal influences between the European Union and the OECD, and highlights how the promotion of a theoretical understanding and careful empirical handling of the relevant practices should enrich the discussion and foster consistent implications. In particular, how consensus on the development of a linguistic and conceptual framework could enhance the resolution of some issues is emphasized and, more specifically, to what extent EU law allows the base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) Project to be applied in the EU area, knowing that EU institutions cannot provide for any ex ante guarantee on the compliance of BEPS with EU law. To ensure that the important goals of global tax coordination - that the implementation of the BEPS Project implies - are achieved, this contribution aims to delineate preliminary clarifications in these areas.
Download or read book Tax Sovereignty Tax Competition and the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Concept of Permanent Establishment written by A.C. dos Santos and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article studies the new concept of permanent establishment (PE) suggested in the base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) Report on Action 7 (Preventing the artificial avoidance of PE status), which was built on proposals put forward in the G20/OECD's discussion drafts in the year of 2015. The new definition of PE is crucial in the international tax context, since it determines the right of a country to tax profits of non-residents as well as avoids situations of double taxation. Moreover, nowadays, the PE concept is both obsolete and not in line with the global and digital economy.
Download or read book The New Global Politics of Sovereign International Tax written by Michael Motala and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International tax is undergoing an epochal shift, reminiscent of the genesis of the current bilateral state-centric network of diplomatic agreements in the 1920s. The paradigm of Westphalian tax sovereignty is being assailed by efficient corporate tax planning, resulting in considerable profit shifting and base stripping by multinational enterprise. The supply side of policy is engaged in a race to the bottom competition, and the demand side benefits from treaty shopping and elective residence. Tax is at the heart of the social contract, and the welfare state is having an existential moment. Current efforts coordinated through the G-20 and OECD are likely to produce mock compliance or outright failure. Observing the comparative experience of financial regulation through the Basel Accords employing the constructivist ontology of international relations, this paper argues for constitutional anti-majoritarian paternalism in national tax administrations, together with global tax governance supported and implemented by a transnational epistemic community insulated from democratic interference. Indeed, the problem of space and time occasioned by the current era of globalization portend significant policy coordination problems and distributive contests. In light of the application of globalization theory to a futurist frame, however, it is clear BEPS is not the final frontier for the imagination of sovereign tax.
Download or read book Addressing Base Erosion and Profit Shifting written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents studies and data available regarding the existence and magnitude of base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS), and contains an overview of global developments that have an impact on corporate tax matters.
Download or read book Tax Incentives in the BEPS Era written by Madalina Cotrut and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent tax developments aimed at mitigating the possibilities of base erosion and profit shifting are expected to increase the importance and popularity of tax incentives. This is due to the fact that states will want to remain competitive on the international stage and multinational enterprises will look for other opportunities to minimize their tax liabilities.0This book seeks to answer the following essential questions, from both a practical and an academic perspective:0- Will tax incentives be the 21st century tool for tax planning structures?0- Will states need to introduce more tax incentives in the future in order to be more competitive?0- What are the effects of the anti-abuse measures adopted by the EU Member States and recommended by the OECD on tax incentives?0- What are the challenges of securing the use of tax incentives?0- What new tax policy challenges will tax incentives bring about? 00This book answers these questions by analysing selected tax incentives that are commonly promoted by both developed and developing states, particularly those tax incentives that are of relevance to corporate income taxation.
Download or read book Tax Sovereignty and the Law in the Digital and Global Economy written by Francesco Farri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-27 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses which is the most appropriate tax dimension to best manage the new horizons of the global and digital economy. In this perspective, the efficiency of the main models is examined and two fundamental proposals are put forth: the first one aims at a coordination of the Destination-Based approach with the role of some specific digital assets, such as user data; the second one is a framework for a possible futuristic tax phenomenon all internal to the world of the internet and not linked to traditional territorial States. The compliance of these models with the constitutional principles that western democratic systems have affirmed over time in matters of taxation is then analyzed with particular regard to legal certainty, consent to taxation and to the re-distributive function of taxes. A specific evaluation of the role of the European Union is carried out and the jurisprudence on financial interests of the Union and on State aids is analyzed and tackled in light of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and of the tax sovereignty of member States. The conclusion is that the model of the organization with a general political purpose, from which modern States take their inspiration, appears unfailing for a tax project that would focus on the good and the growth of the person and of the social aggregations in which everyone lives. A model that therefore deserves to be safeguarded, although with new methods and instruments, starting from a Destination-Based Asset-Coordinated approach, in the Third Millennium. The book will be of interest to researchers and academics in international tax law, constitutional law and in political science.
Download or read book The Aftermath of BEPS written by Joanna Clair Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
