The current rules in tax treaties for business profits of permanent establishments (PEs) have recently received their greatest alteration since they were created in the 1950s as a result of the Report on Attribution of Profits to Permanent Establishments representing over a decade of work by the...

Some Spanish regions have recently established a new tax on large commercial malls placed in their territory. This tax can be questioned on several grounds, both legal and economic. This paper examines whether according to EU State aid law the new tax can be deemed an illegal State aid to small...

Regimes for aggregating the position of related entities are undertaken for a variety of seemingly worthwhile reasons. Even if the regimes turn out not to be effective, they are nevertheless usually considered relatively harmless aspects of a tax system, perhaps adding a touch of desirable...

This article considers the recent experiment in the “principles-based drafting” of tax legislation in the UK, in the light of the experience in Australia during the last 8 years. The article examines the genesis of this experiment in the tax re-writing projects that started in the 1990s, the...

Peracchi v. Commissioner is a lightning rod for commentators and the bane of students of corporate income tax. In short, the decision makes no sense because it grants the maker of a note a section 1012 basis in the note, violating a fundamental principle of income taxation. Nonetheless, the...

Family limited partnerships have been popular gift and estate tax planning vehicles for many years. In recent years, family limited liability companies (LLCs) have also become common, particularly in those states that have updated their statutes to take the check-the-box regulations into...

This chapter provides an accessible overview of our previous work on the impact of the abolition of the Rule Against Perpetuities (RAP) on trust fund situs. The implementation of the Generation Skipping Transfer (GST) Tax by the Tax Reform Act of 1986 sparked a movement to repeal the RAP. Since...

This paper discusses the 2005 proposal of President Bush's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform to enact a dividend-exemption system for certain foreign-source earnings of U.S. taxpayers. The paper briefly explains why the recommendation should be an improvement over current law, compares it to...

Virtually everyone in this country is directly affected by the material in this chapter. Whether you are single, married, cohabitating with someone of the opposite or same sex, a child, an elderly person, someone going through a divorce or separation, rich or poor, there are numerous tax issues...

Service tax is imposed on renting of immovable property for use in business or commerce. Residential properties are not subject to tax. This article examines use of residential property partly for business or commerce and service tax implications thereon