The 2017 US tax legislation - widely referred to as the Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) - fundamentally transformed the US system of international taxation. It ostensibly ended worldwide taxation but introduced, for instance, a new tax on "Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income" (GILTI). This paper...

This article examines some of the background to the 1954 Japan-United States Income Tax Treaty from a historical perspective.Japanese domestic law developed the “source” of income concept and implemented a foreign tax credit system during the three years of treaty negotiations. The 1954...