Submitted by Dalton Yoshio Hirata (dyhirata@msn.com) on 2012-11-29T01:33:26Z No. of bitstreams: 1 daltonhirata.dissertacao - v.final.pdf: 810658 bytes, checksum: 805785e4ab36ac0256b27b4682527771 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Suzinei Teles Garcia Garcia (suzinei.garcia@fgv.br) on 2012-11-29T12:36:42Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 daltonhirata.dissertacao - v.final.pdf: 810658 bytes, checksum: 805785e4ab36ac0256b27b4682527771 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-11-29T12:41:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 daltonhirata.dissertacao - v.final.pdf: 810658 bytes, checksum: 805785e4ab36ac0256b27b4682527771 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-10-31 / This work intends to analyze, from the perspective of the 'rent seeking' theory, the historical evolution of the legislation and case law about the tax on profits, capital gains and income earned by corporations established abroad. The hypothesis is that this legislation and its many interpretations reflect rent seeking interests by both some government sectors as well as the private sector. Accordingly, the theory of rent seeking is analyzed and its relation to the theory of 'patrimonialismo' in Brazil is demonstrated. Afterwards, the theory is applied to the proposed tax theme. To reach this objective, this work analyzes the evolution of the legislation until the last relevant law: Provisional Measure No. 2158-35 / 01. The main controversies will be identified as well as possible economic (rent seeking) interests in the various interpretations of the rules in question. Afterwards, this works verifies in the decisions of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ), the Supreme Federal Court (STF) and the Administrative Tax Court (CARF) the evolution of courts’ understanding about the various interpretations. It will be analyzed if any consensus could be obtained and which economic interests would be affected by the course taken by the case law on the theme. In this context, the analysis of legislative and jurisprudential evolution will address the following controversial issues: (1) characterization of the Brazilian rules as CFC rules (antiavoidance feature), (2) taxation of a deemed profit distribution or of the own Brazilian company profits; (3) the constitutionality of Article 43, paragraph 2, of the National Tax Code, and Article 74 of the Provisional Measure No. 2158-35/01; and (4) the compatibility of this regime with the Treaties on Double Taxation. Finally, a conclusion will be made from the findings, regarding how the changing tax rules in question may represent a rent seeking situation without public benefits that may unduly benefit both the public and the private sectors. / O presente trabalho tem por objetivo analisar, pela ótica da teoria do rent seeking, a evolução da legislação e da jurisprudência administrativa e judicial acerca do regime da tributação dos lucros, ganhos de capital e rendimentos auferidos por sociedades controladas e coligadas no exterior. Observar-se-á a hipótese da legislação e das suas diversas interpretações refletirem interesses predominantemente de apropriação de renda, tanto por parte da Administração Pública quanto dos agentes privados. Nesse sentido, após uma exposição da teoria do rent seeking e da sua relação com a teoria do patrimonialismo no Brasil, ela será aplicada no tema tributário proposto. Para tanto, verificar-se-á a evolução da legislação até o último diploma normativo relevante sobre o tema: a Medida Provisória nº 2.158-35/01. Neste momento, serão identificadas as principais controvérsias e os possíveis interesses nas diversas interpretações dadas às regras em questão, associando-os com os diversos problemas de rent seeking observáveis. A seguir, verificar-se-á, nas decisões do Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ), do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), e do Conselho Administrativo de Recursos Fiscais (CARF) qual a evolução do entendimento dos tribunais a respeito das referidas interpretações, verificando se algum consenso foi atingido e quais interesses estariam atingidos pelo rumo tomado pela jurisprudência sobre o tema. Neste contexto, a análise da evolução legislativa e jurisprudencial abordará os seguintes pontos controversos: (1) caracterização das regras brasileiras como CFC rules (característica antielisiva); (2) tributação de distribuição ficta ou de lucro da própria controladora ou coligada no Brasil; (3) constitucionalidade do artigo 43, parágrafo 2º, do Código Tributário Nacional, bem como do artigo 74 da Medida Provisória nº 2.158-35/01; e (4) a compatibilização com os Tratados contra a Dupla Tributação. Por fim, far-se-á uma conclusão, a partir dos resultados verificados, a respeito de como a evolução das regras tributárias em questão pode representar uma apropriação de renda sem benefícios públicos que pode favorecer indevidamente tanto o setor público como o privado.

To what degree developing countries gain from signing double tax treaties is being hotly debated. In this paper, we analyze the Austrian tax treaty policy. Combining legal and economic perspectives, we find that developing countries are likely to expect both positive and negative impacts from signing a double tax treaty (DTT) with Austria. On the one hand, the results of our econometric analysis suggest that middle-income countries that sign a DTT with Austria may expect an increased number of foreign direct investment projects from Austrian companies. On the other hand, the signatory states may suffer from limited withholding taxation rights established in the DTTs for the source country, which could lead to reduced tax revenues in the developing countries. (authors' abstract) / Series: WU International Taxation Research Paper Series

The result of the global integration of the world economy are globally operating corporations. Multinational enterprises operate in different countries whose economic policies are different from each other. These differences have considerable impact on tax policy. Taxes are the subject of conflicting interests of the international business and tax policy. One of the current objectives of the MNEs is to reduce the total cost in order to achieving competitive advantage in the global market as well as to minimize the global tax liability through its optimization. To achieve these objectives the international tax planning is a widely used means. International tax planning uses tax havens and their favourable tax conditions to divert profits. Minimizing tax liability often leads to tax avoidance or tax evasion. Different legislative adjustments and mutual meeting of local and international legislation gradually uncover gaps and weaknesses enabling reduction and shedding of profits. Consequently, states are deprived of significant tax revenue. One of the most common and most important methods to minimize the tax liability of MNEs is transfer pricing. Transfer prices are to be determined in accordance with the arm's length principle, using comparative analysis and an appropriate method of assessment. Transactions carried out between associated enterprises may be regarded as a risk area which gets to the fore states and tax administrations. The first part of thesis focuses on tax policy in terms of international taxation of income and international tax planning. The second part presents a transfer pricing. The third and last part describes the practices of MNEs in transfer pricing and corresponding initiatives of national and international organizations.

The master thesis deals with the tax system of the Czech Republic and optimizing of tax liability of legal persons. The master thesis deals with taxation of corporate income tax, value added tax and international tax planning. In the area of the income taxes the thesis focuses on optimizing of tax liability when setting up a business, the solution cost and revenue items of the company and the possibility of applying deductions from the tax base and tax rebates. In the area of the value added tax, the thesis deals with the possibility of group registration for value added tax. At the end the thesis deals with possible use of tax havens. The aim of the thesis is to introduce a reader with the tax system in the Czech Republic and especially to imagine the possible applications of optimizing tax liability on selected methods, which the law currently allows.

Thesis deals with tax haven topic taking part in the gaming industry, international tax planning and tax losses related. In the theoretical section, definitions and anti-tax evasion strategies are introduced; and overview of particular countries solution with its features is outlined. The application section quantifies effect of these particular features on increase/decrease of tax residents count using statistical methods. Findings consist also of recommendations for tax code improvement and gaming law enhancements for Ministry of Finance in Czech Republic.

La coopération internationale par l’échange de renseignements fiscaux, question classique si bien que marginale, s’est renouvelé dans l’acuité pour devenir l’une des matières les plus sensibles du droit fiscal international contemporain. Malgré tous les efforts politiques et juridiques déployés ces dernières années, et leurs véritables avancées sur le plan de la technique juridique et de l’efficience administrative, il y a raisons de craindre qu’elle rencontre encore des différents limites pour fonctionner efficacement au niveau planétaire. Cette thèse s’occupe d’identifier l’existence d’un régime juridique général des échanges de renseignements fiscaux, assez homogène en matière de contenu et d’application, en contemplation des principaux modèles normatifs non communautaires disponibles à l’actualité, y compris ceux automatiques. Ensuite, la thèse examine la portée de ce régime général, afin d’encadrer les limites à l’échange de renseignements fiscaux et de proposer solutions juridiques pour les dépasser. / International co-operation through the exchange of tax information, a classical but marginal issue, has been renewed to become one of the most sensitive subjects of international tax law. Despite all the political and legal efforts made in recent years, and despite the fact that these efforts are real advances in legal technology and administrative efficiency, there are reasons to believe that international tax co-operation still faces different limitations to operate in a worldwide level. This thesis aims to identify the existence of a general legal regime for the exchange of tax information, fairly homogenous in terms of content and application, in view of the main non-EU normative models available nowadays, including those of automatic exchange. Afterwards, the thesis examines the scope of this general regime in order to frame limits to the exchange of tax information and to propose legal solutions to overcome them.

Les enjeux présentés par la puissance financière des fonds souverains et les réactions politiques des pays d’accueil appellent naturellement à s’interroger sur la façon dont la fiscalité appréhende ces questions. La réponse nécessite de se placer tant sur le plan du droit interne français que sur celui de la fiscalité internationale. La présente étude procède à une analyse comparée de la fiscalité directe applicable aux fonds souverains en France et aux Etats-Unis. Cette analyse se poursuit à travers l’examen de conventions fiscales conclues par la France mais aussi par des Etats étrangers détenteurs de fonds souverains. La question de l’application des conventions fiscales aux fonds souverains est évoquée à travers l’exposé des modèles de conventions fiscales de l’OCDE et des Etats-Unis. Le statut fiscal des fonds souverains est confronté à celui des apporteurs de capitaux privés au regard de la distorsion de concurrence fiscale entre investisseurs. En l’absence de dispositions législatives précises, de doctrine administrative et de jurisprudence, ces travaux sont principalement fondés sur une interprétation des faits et du droit positif. Les solutions proposées tentent de remédier aux problématiques ainsi dégagées. / The growing number of investments made by sovereign wealth funds and the reactions of host countries has raised questions regarding the tax treatment of those public financial entities. Answering these questions implies to analyze the tax legislation on both a national and international level. In this respect this paper compares the direct taxation of sovereign wealth funds investments in France and in the United States. It is then followed by an analysis of some tax treaties signed by France as well as tax treaties signed by countries owning sovereign wealth funds. Questions related to the application of tax treaties to sovereign wealth funds are examined through the presentation of the OECD model tax convention and the United States income model tax convention. We then compare the tax status of sovereign wealth funds and private investors regarding tax competition and portfolio choices. We will see through the lack of tax regulations, guidance and the absence of court decision that this study is mainly based on an interpretation of the facts and the law as a consequence. The solutions provided in this paper aim at clarifying the issues we have identified. Hopefully this will raise further interrogations and will be followed by other studies.

La mondialisation de l’économie, le développement des moyens de transport et de communication et l’émergence des paradis fiscaux rendent la connaissance de la fiscalité d’autres pays indispensable, tant par le fiscaliste praticien que par le chercheur.La France et la Belgique ont une communauté de langue et de culture en plus de la proximité géographique. Connaître sa fiscalité et la comparer à la fiscalité française est utile à tout fiscaliste qui pourra alors se faire sa propre idée sur le statut de paradis fiscal qu’on lui attribue. Nous avons choisi de comparer l’imposition des revenus étrangers car, ceux qui changent de pays pour éviter la pression fiscale, sont souvent des personnes ayant une forte activité internationale. En l’absence de convention préventive de double imposition, l’imposition de tels revenus est plus favorable en France, quand ils sont encaissés par des personnes morales. En revanche, lorsqu’ils sont encaissés par des personnes physiques, l’imposition est plus avantageuse en Belgique.Mais les deux pays ont conclu beaucoup de conventions préventives de double imposition de sorte qu’il est difficile de trouver un pays qui ne leur est pas lié par une convention fiscale. Or, il s’avère que la Belgique, à travers ses conventions, adopte des mesures fiscales nettement plus favorables que la France et ce, afin de favoriser l’expansion économique de ses résidents et attirer aussi des capitaux étrangers.A cette situation, s’ajoute le fait que ce pays autorise des montages fiscaux qui seraient sanctionnés en France sous l’angle de l’abus de droit.On comprend alors pourquoi certains hommes d’affaires n’hésitent pas à s’y domicilier. / According to several factors such as the economy globalization, the development of transportation and communication supplies and the rising of tax heavens, tax lawyers have to reach a high expertise and knowledge of foreign tax systems.Belgium and France share common roots of language and culture in addition to the geographical proximity. To be especially aware of the Belgium tax law scheme is absolutely necessary for every tax lawyer in particular in a view to compare and have an opinion about the heaven nature of the Belgian system.As far as it is impossible to compare every point of the two systems, we decided to focus only on the taxation of foreign income, because of the international activity of the taxpayers willing to lower the tax pressure. Without an international tax treaty, foreign incomes are less taxed in France when they are received by a company but the situation is different when the receiver is a person. However it has to be noticed that Belgium and France have developed a huge international tax treaty network. The Belgium one is analyzed as being more attractive for foreign investments and national economic expansion. Besides, Belgium has a tax system which authorizes tax schemes seen sometimes as an abuse of right in France. As a consequence the exile of business men can be understood.

Au siècle dernier, la Turquie moderne a adopté les principes de démocratie et de laïcité. Parvenue à la stabilité politique, elle connaît aujourd’hui une croissance économique stable et pérenne qui lui permet de jouer sa partition au niveau international. La Turquie est passée du modernisme inhérent à l’idéologie ataturkienne à un modernisme qui s’inspire aujourd’hui des principes occidentaux en les adaptant à sa conjoncture économique et à ses valeurs sociales. En matière d’imposition des bénéfices des entreprises, la législation fiscale joue un rôle essentiel. L’accroissement des échanges économiques de la Turquie avec les pays étrangers, notamment ceux de l’Union européenne, amène le législateur fiscal turc à donner une dimension internationale à la fiscalité d’entreprise. Il témoigne de sa volonté de modernisme et de ses préoccupations internationales en accordant, depuis le début des années 2000, une importance toute particulière aux exigences de l’OCDE et de l’Union européenne. Il s’applique à faire de la fiscalité d’entreprise une fiscalité compétitive au service du développement économique et à garantir les droits des entreprises afin qu’elles bénéficient d’une sécurité juridique réelle. Par voie de conséquence, la perception du contribuable turc à l’égard de l’État évolue, passant d’une conception ad nominam – qui accorde la primauté à ceux qui dirigent le pays – à une conception ad valorem – qui accorde la primauté à la valeur des dispositions fiscales. / Last century, Turkey adopted the principles of democracy and secularism. It has reached political stability and is now experiencing a stable and durable economic growth that enables it to play a role on an international scale. Turkey has gone from a modernism inherent to the Ataturk ideology to a modernism inspired by Western principles, adapting them to its economic situation and its social values. As regards taxation on firm profits, fiscal legislation plays an essential part. The increase of economic exchanges between Turkey and foreign countries, especially those belonging to the European Union, leads Turkish fiscal laws to give an international standing to the firm tax system. It has shown its will of modernism and its international preoccupations by attaching a specific importance to the requirements of the OECD and the European Union since the beginning of the 2000s. It makes every effort to turn firm taxation into a competitive tax system serving the economic development and to guarantee the rights of the firms so that they have a real juridical security. As a result, the collection of Turkish taxpayers to the state is evolving, going from a conception ad nominam – prioritizing the leaders of the country – to a conception ad valorem – prioritizing the value of fiscal measures.

Le Marché intérieur s’est constitué en vue d’établir une concurrence libre et de répartir les ressources de la manière la plus efficiente possible. Impliquant l’abolition des frontières intérieures, l’action communautaire a conduit à harmoniser ou au moins à rapprocher de nombreux domaines. Même la fiscalité directe, compétence réservée des Etats membres, a fini par être placée sous la surveillance des Traités par le biais des libertés fondamentales et du principe de non-discrimination. Ce dernier a permis une certaine intégration fiscale au niveau européen en vue d’une neutralisation de la fiscalité sur les mouvements de personnes, de biens, de services et de capitaux. Cette oeuvre, essentiellement prétorienne, a cependant montré ses limites au plan de la cohérence de la politique fiscale, le juge ne pouvant faire un choix quant à la forme de neutralité qu’il conviendrait de choisir : neutralité aux importations de capitaux, neutralité aux exportations de capitaux ou une autre. En effet, les Traités établissent indéniablement un objectif de neutralité à destination des Etats. Emanant des textes européens cette neutralité abstraite est fondamentale afin de réaliser les objectifs économiques de l’Union. Cependant, en l’absence d’harmonisation fiscale il est nécessaire de faire un choix pour une forme de neutralité afin de concilier imposition, efficience économique et allocation efficace des ressources. A l’aune des principes qui structurent la construction de l’Europe, il convient désormais de dessiner les contours d’une neutralité fonctionnelle capable de procéder à l’intégration des impôts directs des Etats membres dans un Marché commun. / The Internal Market was formed to establish free competition and allocate resources as efficiently as possible. Involving the abolition of internal borders, Community action led to harmonize or at least to bring together many areas. Although direct taxation powers have been reserved by member States, it was placed under the supervision of the Treaties by means of the fundamental freedoms and the principle of non-discrimination. The latter has led to some tax integration at the European level in order to neutralize taxation on the movement of people, goods, services and capital. This work, mainly performed by the ECJ, showed its limits in terms of consistency of fiscal policy, the judge cannot make a choice as to the form of neutrality that should be chosen: capital import neutrality, capital export neutrality or another form of neutrality. Indeed, the EC Treaty establishes an undeniable objective of neutrality toward member States. The abstract neutrality that is emanating from European texts is essential to achieve the economic objectives of the EU. However, in the absence of tax harmonization it is necessary to choose among the different standards of tax neutrality in order to reconcile taxation, economic efficiency and efficient allocation of resources. In the light of the principles that shape the European construction one should now draw the outlines of a functional neutrality able to perform the integration of direct taxes in a Common Market.