Tax planning involving intangibles has become a major concern among governments, revenue authorities, media, the general public and international organizations. Multinational enterprises have been perceived to be able to shift profits by transferring and centralizing the ownership of intangibles...

Controlled foreign corporation rules are a fundamental piece of the international tax regime. They preserve national tax bases from erosion and profit shifting, counteract tax deferral and implement capital export neutrality policies. However, the application of these rules should be coordinated...

This study provides an interdisciplinary analysis of firm theory and international tax law, applied within a framework of hypothetical illustrations of prototypical multinational enterprises. The study finds that the construct and interpretation of different norms of international tax law...

This article examines the impact of the international tax system on the location decision of a foreign permanent establishment (PE) including cross-border loss relief and activity clauses. Germany, e.g., operates a hybrid system of international taxation, under which foreign income from PEs...

There are about 2,600 double tax treaties in the world, some 500 among industrialized economies, approximately 800 among developing economies and about 1,300 between industrialized and developing economies. Whereas the prior two categories are symmetric, the latter is asymmetric, as capital...

Labour, in all its dimensions, has been “on the move” in the last few years. Before the pandemic, labour mobility has mostly interested only a fraction of the working population, such as highly skilled and high-net-worth individuals. COVID-19 has, however, expanded the extent of labour...

This article provides critical reflections on the 2017 revision of article 4(3) of the OECD Model Convention and its Commentary regarding dual residence of persons other than individuals. These changes and their implementation warrant an assessment of their desirability, including an in-depth...

This paper consider the history of the tax treaty rule on royalties up to the emergence of the modern form, the borders of the provision and the fundamental question of why we have it (viewed from an historical perspective). In the modern context of the OECD Model with zero taxation at source on...

The publication of the OECD Model tax treaty in 1977 marked 50 years of development. The Model seeks to remove international tax barriers by reconciliation at the interface of tax systems and has produced a bilateral network because it is generally considered that the diversity of tax systems...

One of the most notable examples of U.S. tax exceptionalism is the taxation of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents (LPRs) on their worldwide income, regardless of residence. The United States also imposes broad and increasingly onerous tax and financial reporting obligations on its...