Tax Treaties

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (the highest appeal court for a number of Commonwealth countries) ruled  last month that payment rapid payment of dividends by a Trinidadian company …

Transfer pricing adjustments under Article 9 of the model treaties are the most common form of dispute that is dealt with under the mutual agreement procedure. It is for this reason that the OECD…

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, " it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less." (Lewis Carroll, Alice through the Looking Glass) Prior to the OECD…

Art 23 of the OECD and UN Model treaties are seldom exactly followed in state treaty practice. More often, the basic principles of relief by credit or exemption in arts 23A and B are tailored to meet…

Switzerland has suspended the application of the most favoured nation clause contained in the protocol to its 1994 tax treaty with India. This was done in response to the Supreme Court of India’s…

The recent English Court of Appeal decision in Hargreaves Property Holdings Ltd v HMRC [2024] EWCA Civ 365 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2024/365.html  has again examined the meaning of…

Part II. The (Toxic) Relationship of BO and GAAR in Light of the Husky Energy case. “[T]he concept of beneficial ownership is a basic principle of income taxation: the beneficial owner of income is…

In my previous blog I examined the Tax Court of Canada’s analysis of the meaning of beneficial ownership in tax treaties in Husky Energy Inc. v The King, 2023 TCC 167 in relation to stock or…

We are happy to inform you that the latest issue of the journal is now available and includes the following contributions: Alice Pirlot, Climate Clubs: An International Tax Law Perspective Global…