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Canada's Evolving Tax Treaty Policy Toward Low-Income Countries, Kim Brooks Jan 2009

Canada's Evolving Tax Treaty Policy Toward Low-Income Countries, Kim Brooks

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Relative to at least some high-income countries, Canada has been willing to negotiate tax treaties that leave greater jurisdiction to tax (ie. more source jurisdiction) to low-income countries in its tax treaties. Nevertheless, Canada's tax treaty policy has not been overwhelmingly generous. This essay takes as its starting point Alex Easson's 1988 paper, The Evolution of Canada's Tax Treaty Policy Since the Royal Commission on Taxation. Focusing on the evolution of Canada's tax treaty policy since 1988, the essay examines three aspects of Canada's tax treaties that might increase the scope for source-based taxation by low-income countries. First, it examines …


Global Distributive Justice: The Potential For A Feminist Analysis Of International Tax Revenue Allocation, Kim Brooks Jan 2009

Global Distributive Justice: The Potential For A Feminist Analysis Of International Tax Revenue Allocation, Kim Brooks

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This article has a modest aim - to engage feminists and progressive international tax scholars in a shared dialogue about the importance of protecting and enhancing the state’s revenue-raising and international revenue distribution roles. To this end, the article reviews some of the feminist and critical race scholarship that might assist international tax scholars and policy makers concerned with issues of international revenue distribution; explains the role of tax treaties in allocating tax revenues between nations; applies a feminist analysis to the problem of this international revenue allocation project; and offers some tentative thoughts about a feminist approach to allocating …


Residence Of Companies Under Tax Treaties And Ec Law (Canada), Kim Brooks Jan 2009

Residence Of Companies Under Tax Treaties And Ec Law (Canada), Kim Brooks

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This chapter reviews the development and present Canadian law on the residence of corporations for tax purposes. It highlights a few of the elements of Canada's corporate law regime by way of context; outlines why residence matters to corporations for Canadian tax purposes, traces the history of the Canadian tests for corporate residence, explains how the Canadian Income Tax Act addresses continuances, and reviews the approach to the determination of corporate residence reflected in Canada's tax treaties.


Tax Sparing: A Needed Incentive For Foreign Investment In Low-Income Countries Or An Unnecessary Revenue Sacrifice?, Kim Brooks Jan 2009

Tax Sparing: A Needed Incentive For Foreign Investment In Low-Income Countries Or An Unnecessary Revenue Sacrifice?, Kim Brooks

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Low income countries often offer tax incentives to induce foreign investment, but the effectiveness of these measures may he limited by the domestic tax practices of investors' high income home countries. Most high-income countries provide a tax credit for the amount of tax paid to a foreign jurisdiction on the international profits of resident companies or individuals. Where no tax, or reduced tax, is paid to the foreign jurisdiction because of a tax incentive, the result is that the investor pays the same amount of tax they would have paid in the absence of the tax incentive, but simply pays …