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Full-Text Articles in Law
Codifying Castle Harbour, Karen C. Burke, Grayson M.P. Mccouch
Codifying Castle Harbour, Karen C. Burke, Grayson M.P. Mccouch
UF Law Faculty Publications
In this article, Burke and McCouch discuss the 2015 statutory amendment, enacted as part of the last-minute budget deal, that revised and renumbered the family partnership provision of section 704(e)(1). They question whether the change will accomplish its stated purposes of clarifying existing law and raising $1.9 billion in revenue, and they conclude that the 2014 proposals by former House Ways and Means Committee Chair Dave Camp offer a politically expedient source of selective pay-fors for future government spending without actually raising taxes.
Treaties In The Aftermath Of Beps, Yariv Brauner
Treaties In The Aftermath Of Beps, Yariv Brauner
UF Law Faculty Publications
The article argues that, despite the fanfare around it, the outcome of the BEPS project is unlikely to be dramatic, at least in the short term. Beyond a period of increased legal uncertainty and aggressive enforcement by some countries, it expects little substantive change in tax treaties. The challenges to the dominance of the OECD and the richest countries would likely be assuaged with marginal concessions, most or all of which not be affecting tax treaties. Yet, the article sees a silver lining in the non-substantive, structural, and instrumental outcomes of the BEPS project. It argues that even if unintended, …
Unilateral Responses To Tax Treaty Abuse: A Functional Approach, Omri Y. Marian
Unilateral Responses To Tax Treaty Abuse: A Functional Approach, Omri Y. Marian
UF Law Faculty Publications
Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the attention given to abusive tax schemes that take advantage of bilateral tax treaties. The ensuing discourse tends to view potential responses to treaty abuses as a hierarchical set of options, gradually escalating, in which treaty termination is a last resort option. This article argues that the hierarchical view of unilateral responses to treaty abuse is misguided. Unilateral responses to treaty-based abuse are not hierarchically ordered. Rather, the approach to treaty abuse is (and should be) functional, adopting specific types of unilateral responses based on the type of treaty abuse at issue. …