New Search Search History

Holdings Information

    Schwarz on tax treaties / Jonathan Schwarz, BA, LLB (Witwatersrand) ; LLM (University of California, Berkeley), FTII, Barrister, Advocate of the High Court of South Africa, Barrister and Solicitor, Alberta, Canada.

    • Title:Schwarz on tax treaties / Jonathan Schwarz, BA, LLB (Witwatersrand) ; LLM (University of California, Berkeley), FTII, Barrister, Advocate of the High Court of South Africa, Barrister and Solicitor, Alberta, Canada.
    •    
    • Variant Title:Tax treaties
    • Author/Creator:Schwarz, Jonathan, author.
    • Published/Created:Kingston upon Thames, Surrey : Wolters Kluwer, [2015]
    • Holdings

       
    • Library of Congress Subjects:Double taxation--Treaties.
      Foreign trade regulation--Great Britain.
      International business enterprises--Taxation.
    • Edition:Fourth edition.
    • Description:xxi, 629 pages ; 25 cm
    • Summary:Schwarz on Tax Treaties' is the definitive analysis of tax treaties from a UK perspective and provides in- depth expert analysis of the interpretation and interaction of the UK's treaty network with EU and international law in their application to UK tax law. Jonathan Schwarz is a pre-eminent authority on international taxation, a leading barrister in this area and a visiting Professor at King's College, London. Schwarz on Tax Treaties has quickly established itself as the standard reference work on this challenging subject.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9789041166685 hardcover
      9041166688
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: Introduction
      Sources of international law
      International law and domestic law
      Public international law and private international law
      States
      State immunity from tax
      International organisations
      Law of Treaties
      Introduction
      What are tax treaties?
      Treaty-making
      Scope of tax treaties
      Tax rules in non-tax treaties
      Treaty implementation
      Extent of treaty implementation
      Retrospective effect
      Treaties made under old law
      Effect of treaties
      Putative treaties
      State succession
      Relationship between treaties and specific statutory provisions
      Treaty override
      Treaty under-ride
      Limiting access to treaties
      Extension of treaty benefits
      Introduction
      Treaties and member state domestic law
      Personal scope
      Treaties between member states
      Treaty effect on restrictions
      Discriminatory treaties
      Treaties neutralising discrimination
      Treaty effect on defences to restrictions
      Avoidance and abuse of law
      Treaties with third countries
      Treaties and compensation for breach of EU law
      EU Treaties with third countries
      Tax immunities of the EU
      Introduction
      Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
      Commerzbank principles
      General rule of interpretation
      Special meanings of terms
      Supplementary means of interpretation
      Statutory rules of interpretation
      Autonomous meaning and references to domestic law
      Treaties in more than one language
      Human rights and the European Convention on Human Rights
      Introduction
      Taxes covered
      Territorial scope
      Temporal scope
      Who is entitled to the benefits of a tax treaty?
      Personality
      Residence
      Who is a resident for treaty purposes?
      Dual residence: the tie-breaker
      Saving clause
      Nationality
      States as resident of a contracting state
      Tax favoured entities as residents of a contracting state
      Cornerstone of cross-border business taxation
      Meaning of permanent establishment
      Interpretation of permanent establishment
      Physical permanent establishments
      Permanent establishments and the digital economy
      illustrative list
      Branch
      Building site and construction or installation projects
      Agency permanent establishments
      Independent agents
      Services and permanent establishments
      Deemed activity and unconventional permanent establishments
      Preparatory or auxiliary activities
      Parent companies and subsidiaries as permanent establishments
      Diverted profits tax
      Allocation of taxing jurisdiction
      Classification of sources
      Business profits
      Enterprise
      Which profits are 'business' profits?
      Attribution of profits to permanent establishments
      Authorised OECD approach
      Force of attraction
      Attribution of profits to permanent establishments (2010 version)
      Domestic attribution - income tax
      Domestic attribution - corporation tax
      Deduction of expenditure
      Financial institutions
      Customary methods of allocation
      Independent personal services
      Technical service fees
      Shipping and air transport
      Artists and sportspeople
      Associated enterprises
      Introduction
      Income from immovable property
      Dividends
      Interest
      Royalties
      Introduction
      Income from employment
      Employment
      Employment versus self-employment
      Employment income and intermediaries
      Place of performance
      Timing of income and performance of duties
      Short-stay employees
      Employment-related securities
      Seafarers and aircrew
      Company directors
      Academics
      Diplomats and consular officers
      Government services
      Pensions
      Contributions to pension schemes
      Government pensions
      Introduction
      Persons chargeable
      Gains of non-resident companies
      Gains of non-resident settlements
      Movable property
      Immovable property
      Shares and similar rights
      Alienation of ships and aircraft
      Exit charges
      Foreign exit taxes
      Gains of former residents
      Other income
      Income from trusts and estates
      Alimony and maintenance payments
      Offshore exploration and exploitation activities
      Channel Tunnel
      Remittance basis taxpayers
      Students
      Introduction
      Legislative instruments
      Direct effect
      Tax by regulation: the European Economic Interest Grouping
      Directives and tax treaties
      Parent-Subsidiary Directive
      Interest and Royalty Directive
      Mergers Directive
      Mergers Directive: Tax consequences
      Directive abuse and tax avoidance
      Associated enterprises
      Exchange of information and recovery of taxes
      Savings Directive
      Introduction
      Credit for foreign tax
      Treaty versus unilateral relief
      Same income, different person
      Matching foreign income and tax with UK liability
      Source rules
      Residence
      Foreign tax payable
      Treaty restrictions on credit
      Circular cases
      Credit for underlying tax
      Tax sparing
      Exemption of foreign income
      Introduction
      Tax treaty non-discrimination
      Tax treaty non-discrimination and EU law
      Discrimination against foreign nationals and stateless persons
      Discrimination against permanent establishments
      Discrimination based on residence of payee
      Discrimination based on ownership of enterprises
      Taxes covered
      Authorisation of discrimination
      References to treaty non-discrimination in domestic law
      Most favoured nation treatment
      Introduction
      What is avoidance?
      Treaty interaction with domestic anti-avoidance rules
      Treaty shopping
      Amendments to Commentary in 2003
      Treaty-based anti-abuse measures
      Beneficial ownership
      Other specific countermeasures
      Subject-to-tax approach
      Exclusion of tax-favoured entities
      Channel approach
      Bona fide provisions
      Purpose provisions
      Look-through rules
      US Treaty limitation on benefits
      Other approaches
      Procedural methods
      Judicial approaches
      Introduction
      Treaty-based procedures
      Self-assessment and deduction at source
      Claim or self-assessment of treaty benefits
      Claims
      Deduction at source
      Notice to pay at treaty rates
      Forms
      Beneficial ownership
      Procedure
      Dividends
      Interest and royalties
      Business profits
      Employment and pension income
      Entertainers and sportspeople
      Residence: individual
      Residence: company
      Minimising foreign tax
      Administration of treaties
      Substantive disputes
      Judicial review
      Complaints
      Map
      Map: taxation not in accordance with the treaty
      Map: time limits
      Map: procedure
      Map: appeal versus Map
      Map: methods of giving relief
      Map: treaty interpretation or application
      Map: elimination of double taxation not provided for
      Map: communication between competent authorities
      Map: arbitration
      Map and GATS dispute resolution
      Introduction
      Scope of convention
      Taxes covered
      Arm's length standard
      Participation in management, control or capital
      Elimination of double taxation
      Time limits
      Adjustment procedure
      Choice of forum
      Penalty proceedings
      Conclusion
      Introduction
      Revenue rule
      What are the Revenue matters?
      Is the rule against enforcing foreign revenue judgments contrary to the EU Treaty?
      Authority for administrative cooperation
      Exchange of information: duty of confidentiality
      Exchange of information: authority to exchange information
      Exchange of information: sources of information
      Exchange of information: domestic procedure
      Exchange of information: treaty provisions
      Tax exchange of information agreements
      Agreements with Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories to improve international tax compliance
      EU Mutual Assistance Directive
      EU automatic exchange of financial information
      EU Savings Directive
      EU savings income treaties
      EU automatic exchange of information treaties
      Assistance in the recovery of taxes - authority to provide assistance
      EU mutual assistance in the recovery of taxes
      Bilateral tax treaty assistance in recovery of taxes
      Convention for mutual administrative assistance in tax matters
      Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement on the Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information
      OECD Common Reporting Standard
      Swiss-UK agreement on tax cooperation
      US-UK Agreement to improve international tax compliance and to implement FATCA
      UK Common Reporting Standard implementation.
    Session Timeout
    New Session