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The notion of ‘substance’ is proving to be central to the OECD’s base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) project, particularly in the area of taxation of intangibles. In this book, this notoriously hard-to-define concept is examined from three distinct angles: transfer pricing (DEMPE Approach), harmful tax practices (Substantial Activity Requirement), and tax treaties (Beneficial Ownership). In a thoroughgoing investigation using the practical example of an IP company, the author provides detailed and precise answers to the following questions: What substance is necessary to be entitled to intangible-related returns? What substance is necessary to benefit from preferential IP regimes o...
Stakeholders in the international taxation community agree that existing dispute resolution processes are in serious need of improvement, and a global consensus must be achieved. This book offers a potential restructuring of the tax treaty dispute resolution system based on a comparative analysis of the dispute resolution mechanisms under tax treaties, as prescribed in the OECD and UN models, on the one hand, and the UN Law of the Sea Convention (LOSC) on the other. This comparative study is the first of its kind and is premised on certain key geopolitical similarities that underpin the international tax regime (ITR) and the law of the sea regime while taking into consideration the differenc...
Derivatives stand at the forefront of financial innovation, continually evolving to accommodate new asset classes and risk categories. In the past decade, the growing popularity of cryptoassets and ESG investments has sparked the development of a variety of innovative investment strategies and risk management tools, including crypto and ESG derivatives and related structured products. This new edition has similarly evolved. Using illustrative examples, it provides a comprehensive analysis of the key tax issues associated with derivatives and cryptoassets in domestic and cross-border transactions and presents approaches that tax legislators could adopt to solve them. The new edition also comm...
Transfer pricing treatment of intangibles: Issues und developments In recent decades, intangibles have become one of the most relevant success factors for Multinational Enterprises (MNEs). Along with the increasing importance of intangibles for economies, their tax treatment has also been under scrutiny which includes inter alia respective transfer pricing issues. MNEs are seeking for the best ways to optimize their business arrangements with the related intangibles while, at the same time, getting the most tax-efficient treatment. On the other hand, tax authorities have become increasingly concerned with the ease that intangibles can be used in aggressive planning. These concerns have been ...
In recognition of the considerable attention in recent years given to the effect of EU directives on tax treaties, this important book for the first time brings a combined public international law and European Union law perspective to bear on certain directives – primarily the Parent-Subsidiary Directive, the Merger Directive, the Interest and Royalty Directive, and the Anti-Tax Avoidance Directives – and their interaction with tax treaties concluded by EU Member States. In this area of direct international taxation, the author examines the effect of tax treaties on both the interpretation and application of directives in depth. In clarifying how directives can affect or are allowed to a...
Although rules on the allocation of taxing rights for fees for technical services have been provided for in bilateral tax treaties by African, Asian, and South American countries for decades, it was only in the 2017 update that the UN Model Tax Treaty included Article 12A on the matter, thus suggesting its inclusion in the tax treaty network of its Member States. Consequently, from a cross-border perspective, the interpretation of Article 12A is of great importance for both taxpayers and tax authorities. This book presents the first comprehensive analysis of the scope of technical services in comparison to ordinary (non-technical) services and the differentiation between Article 12A and othe...
Fiscal State Aid Schemes Selectivity and Limits to Enforcement Sophia Piotrowski Taxation is a core area of a State’s sovereignty and therefore highly sensitive to State aid control. This thoroughgoing study fully explains the architecture of EU State aid law as applied to fiscal aid schemes and elucidates the legal consequences of infringements in the context of State aid. Focusing on the criterion of selective advantage under Article 107(1) TFEU and on the limits to recovery in the enforcement of State aid law, the author explores the current state of play after nearly 25 years of an ever more significant role of fiscal State aid law, emphasizing its ongoing uncertainties and potential m...
The topics of double non-taxation and hybrid entities have acquired particular importance in a context where transformations in the tax world have led to international commitments materialised in the OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project. In what is the first systematic in-depth analysis of the OECD BEPS Action Plan 2 and hybrid entities, this timely book provides a critical review of the approach adopted by the OECD and proposes a deeply informed alternative method to deal with the problem of hybrid entity mismatches. 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 ta...
Series on International Taxation Residence and Economic Substance of Subsidiary Corporations in International and European Tax Law It is well known that multinational corporations establish foreign subsidiaries in great measure to reduce their worldwide tax burden. This groundbreaking book examines the content of the substance requirement in double tax convention residence rules, transfer pricing rules, anti-abuse rules, and controlled foreign corporation rules in the context of international and EU tax law, disentangling the complex relationship between the substance requirements in these four sets of legal rules. Following a descriptive-analytic method, for each substance requirement of th...
Von verstärkter Transparenz bis zum gläsernen Steuerpflichtigen Wie geheim sollen Steuerdaten sein? Was ist durch das Verrechnungspreisdokumentationsgesetz zu beachten? Welche Auswirkungen hat die vermehrte Transparenz im Steuerrecht? Antworten dazu und noch mehr erfahren Sie in „Transparenz und Informationsaustausch“. Country-by-Country Reporting oder Mandatory Disclosure Rules dominieren derzeit die wissenschaftlichen und praktischen Diskussionen im Internationalen Steuerrecht. In Österreich wurde 2016 das Verrechnungspreisdokumentationsgesetz erlassen, das aufgrund einer OECD-Empfehlung und einer EU-weiten Umsetzung eine Reihe von Regeln für die Verrechnungspreisdokumentation sowi...