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The Pillar 2 Undertaxed Payments Rule Departs From International Consensus And Tax Treaties, Jinyan Li
The Pillar 2 Undertaxed Payments Rule Departs From International Consensus And Tax Treaties, Jinyan Li
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The OECD released pillar 2 model rules last December to provide a template for domestic legislation to implement the agreement reached on October 8, 2021, by almost 140 inclusive framework members on a two-pillar solution to address global ta challenges. The model rules are limited to the income inclusion rule (IIR) and undertaxed payments rule (UTPR) (collectively known as the global anti-base-erosion (GLOBE) regime) in the October agreement. However, and rather surprisingly, the meaning of the letter “P” in the UTPR was effectively changed from payments to profits in the model rules. There was little, if any, public discussion about …
The Misuse Or Abuse Exception: The Role Of Economic Substance, Jinyan Li
The Misuse Or Abuse Exception: The Role Of Economic Substance, Jinyan Li
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The “misuse or abuse” exception under subsection 245(4) of the Income Tax Act draws the line between acceptable and unacceptable tax avoidance. As a “safety valve” or “relieving provision,” this exception has proved to be the “most crucial and controversial single factor in the application of the GAAR.” Whether a transaction that lacks economic substance is subject to the general anti-avoidance rule (GAAR) is the question considered in this chapter.
Finding The Purpose Of Tax Treatyprovisions Under Gaar: Lessons From Alta Energy, Jinyan Li
Finding The Purpose Of Tax Treatyprovisions Under Gaar: Lessons From Alta Energy, Jinyan Li
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Establishing the object and purpose of tax treaty provisions lies at the heart of applying antiabuse rules, such as general antiavoidance rules under domestic law and the principal purpose test (PPT) in tax treaties. Tax planning arrangements like treaty shopping, designed to obtain treaty benefits, are not abusive unless they contravene the object and purpose of the provisions relied upon by the taxpayer.
A Critique Of The Private Law Approach To Tax Interpretation In Brazilian Scholarship, Ivan Ozai
A Critique Of The Private Law Approach To Tax Interpretation In Brazilian Scholarship, Ivan Ozai
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In this paper, I point out that since the late 1960s, Brazilian tax law scholarship has increasingly rejected any attempt to integrate economic perspectives in the interpretation of tax legislation. The prevailing theory suggests that tax jurisdictions established in the Brazilian Constitution should be interpreted based on concepts from private law and should disregard any consideration of the economic context referred to by the constitutional legislator. Building on Luhmann’s systems theory, which suggests that operational closure of the legal system requires cognitive openness to other social subsystems, I argue that the predominant Brazilian tax theory (which I call private law …