{"title":"The 2017 Change to Article 3(2) of the OECD Model: Comments on Professor Alexander Rust’s Presentation","authors":"J. Sasseville","doi":"10.59403/3crn35f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59403/3crn35f","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, the author provides comments on a presentation made by Professor Alexander Rust regarding the change made in 2017 to Article 3(2) of the OECD Model that provides that a domestic law meaning shall not be given to an undefined treaty term whose meaning has been agreed to through the mutual agreement procedure.","PeriodicalId":516699,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin for International Taxation","volume":" 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141221797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interpreting European Law in the Light of the OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Action Plan","authors":"W. Schön","doi":"10.59403/3202szr","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59403/3202szr","url":null,"abstract":"European law plays a major role in implementing the OECD/G20 BEPS Action Plan. This role influences the interpretation of primary and secondary European law, which the author concludes is not easy to defend as the fiscal purpose of the BEPS actions conflicts with the liberating forces of the European Union’s Internal Market.","PeriodicalId":516699,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin for International Taxation","volume":" 41","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141221893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Interaction of Domestic Anti-Avoidance Rules with Tax Treaties in the Post-BEPS and Digitalized World","authors":"V. Chand, C. Elliffe","doi":"10.59403/3safqvc","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59403/3safqvc","url":null,"abstract":"In its analysis, this article distinguishes between domestic anti-avoidance rules that counteract treaty abuse and those that thwart abuse of domestic law. The authors conclude that conflicts could arise with tax treaties. States should employ a provision that authorizes the application of these rules to prevent this situation arising.","PeriodicalId":516699,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin for International Taxation","volume":" 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141222095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Concept of Value Creation: Is It Relevant for the Allocation of Taxing Rights?","authors":"R.R. Das","doi":"10.59403/1g3p4gm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59403/1g3p4gm","url":null,"abstract":"The author, a member of the Inclusive Framework Steering Group which is engaged in discussion on the allocation of taxing rights, argues that value creation has not been and should never be the basis of such an allocation. He also urges developing countries to be careful in endorsing the concept.","PeriodicalId":516699,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin for International Taxation","volume":"77 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141225410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Initiative and the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent BEPS","authors":"A. Berbari","doi":"10.59403/1qb56x3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59403/1qb56x3","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, the author considers the implications of the OECD Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (the “MLI”) for the OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting initiative in general, and specifically of the United States not signing the MLI.","PeriodicalId":516699,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin for International Taxation","volume":"71 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147917920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pension from World Bank Staff Retirement Plan Tax Exempt in United Kingdom under the United Kingdom-United States Income Tax Treaty (2001)","authors":"B. Cleave","doi":"10.59403/231h9gm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59403/231h9gm","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, the author analyses the recent UK tax case of Michael Macklin (2015) in which the Upper Tribunal held that a pension derived from the World Bank Staff Retirement Plan by a UK resident was exempt from tax in the United Kingdom because that Plan was established in, and generally exempt from income taxation in, the United States for the purposes of the United Kingdom-United States Income Tax Treaty (2001).","PeriodicalId":516699,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin for International Taxation","volume":"70 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147891870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}