If interpreted in a strict legal sense, beneficial ownership rules in tax treaties would have no effect on conduit companies because companies at law own their property and income beneficially.In consequence, courts and scholars have adopted surrogate tests that they attempt to employ in place...

This manual explains how to operate Zotero. The manual has been updated to reflect changes to the style in May 2013.Zotero is a free, open-source referencing tool that operates by "enter once, use many." It captures references by one-click acquisition from databases of legal materials that...

This paper comprises a transcript of the oral addresses and discussion at a colloquium that compared the general anti-avoidance rule of income tax law with the civil law doctrine of Rechtsmissbrauch (abuse of law) and similar doctrines in eight jurisdictions: Germany, Croatia, New Zealand,...

This paper sets out the text and translations of over sixty of the world's general anti-avoidance rules. General anti-avoidance rules are found in taxation statutes. Known as “GAARs”, they are perhaps the most intractable of all statutory provisions, challenging alike to policy-makers,...