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Reforming The Branch Profits Tax To Advance Neutrality, Fred B. Brown
Reforming The Branch Profits Tax To Advance Neutrality, Fred B. Brown
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Congress enacted the branch profits tax in order to reduce the disparity between the taxation of U.S. subsidiaries and U.S. branches of foreign corporations. The branch profits tax attempts to promote neutrality by subjecting the U.S. branch earnings of a foreign corporation to a second level of U.S. tax upon the deemed remittance of the earnings outside of the U.S. branch. This is to approximate the second-level tax that occurs in the subsidiary setting when a U.S. subsidiary pays dividends to its foreign parent. Unlike the dividend tax in the subsidiary setting, however, the branch profits tax can apply even …
Tax Treaty Overrides: A Qualified Defence Of U.S. Practice, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Tax Treaty Overrides: A Qualified Defence Of U.S. Practice, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
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The ability of some countries to unilaterally change, or "override;' their tax treaties through domestic legislation has frequently been identified as a serious threat to the bilateral tax treaty network. In most countries, treaties (including tax treaties) have a status superior to that of ordinary domestic laws (see, e.g. France, Germany, the Netherlands). However, in some countries (primarily the US, but also to some extent the UK and Australia) treaties can be changed unilaterally by subsequent domestic legislation. This result clearly violates international law as embodied by the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties ("VCLT"), which is recognized as …