The recent massive shift by Americans into investment funds and the attendant rise of a core group of institutional shareholders has transformed the financial market landscape. This dissertation explores the economic and policy implications associated with this shift to intermediated capital markets. The underlying assumption has always been that the growing presence of institutional investors in capital markets would improve the corporate governance of their portfolio companies, thereby reducing managerial agency costs and increasing firm value. My research explains why the reality deviates from that ideal. Using two novel perspectives—tax and antitrust—this dissertation reveals the disruptive effects and market distortions associated with the rise of institutional ownership. Chapter 1 of this dissertation, Common Ownership: A Game Changer in Corporate Compliance, explores the effect of overlapping institutional ownership of public companies by institutional investors on corporate tax avoidance. Leading scholars now recognize that this type of “common ownership” can change company objectives and behavior in a way that may lead to economic distortions. This chapter explores one unexamined peril associated with such common ownership: the effect of this core group of institutional investors on the tax avoidance behavior of their portfolio companies. I show how common ownership can lead to a reduction in those companies’ tax liability by means of a newly recognized phenomenon I call “flooding.” This term describes a practice by which different companies that are owned by the same institutional shareholders simultaneously take aggressive tax positions to reduce their tax obligations. Due to the IRS’s limited audit capacity, this synchronized behavior is likely to overwhelm the agency and substantially reduce the probability that tax noncompliance will be detected and penalized. This outcome runs counter to the classic deterrence theory model (which assumes that the threat of enforcement deters noncompliance) and demonstrates how common ownership changes the way public firms approach legal risks. By revealing the systematic compliance distortion and attendant enforcement challenges that ensue when the same investors “own it all,” this chapter also highlights a hidden social cost of common ownership. Under the domination of common institutional investors, companies can more easily shirk their taxes, reducing U.S. tax revenues by billions. Ironically, many of these same investors proclaim themselves as socially responsible stewards of the companies they own, attracting millions of individual investors who factor Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues into their investment decisions. Corporate “flooding” affords an instructive example of the weakness of so-called ESG investment model. To mitigate the detrimental effect of common ownership on corporate tax compliance, this chapter proposes a double sanctions regime, whereby institutional investors would be penalized along with their portfolio companies for improper tax avoidance. Such a regime may help restore deterrence and may incentivize institutional investors to keep their social promises. Chapter 2 of this dissertation, The Agency Tax Costs of Mutual Funds, unveils another tax-related pitfall associated with what some scholars term the “separation of ownership from ownership” problem in intermediated markets. In such markets, retail mutual fund investors cede investment and voting decisions to institutional investors who manage the funds. As a result, actions undertaken unilaterally by financial intermediaries dictate the tax liability of passive individual investors. This chapter argues that the tax decisions of institutional investors are often guided by their own tax considerations rather than by the tax considerations of the beneficiaries who own mutual funds through conventional taxable accounts. Due to the pass-through tax rules that govern investment funds, these beneficiaries, unlike the institutional investors (who are compensated based on pre-tax performance), are tax-sensitive. These diverging incentives give rise to a new type of an agency costs problem. These agency tax costs arise from the institutional investors’ trading decisions, corporate stewardship activities, and their preferences in the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) context. I argue that the structure of M&A deals, the method of payment used in such deals, and even the premiums paid to sellers in such deals are distorted because the votes of passive tax-sensitive retail investors are cast by tax-insensitive institutional investors. As a result, institutional investors not only fail to replicate the tax outcomes that tax-sensitive investors could have achieved had they owned stock directly, but they also distort corporate voting outcomes for all stakeholders—even those with unmediated investments. This chapter proposes several options for mitigating agency tax costs, including mandatory separation of funds based on the tax profile of the beneficiaries, heightened tax disclosure by mutual funds, decentralization of votes in mutual fund sponsors, and pass-through voting systems. These alternatives would reduce the agency tax costs of mutual funds without imposing new agency costs on tax-insensitive shareholders who also rely on institutional investors for portfolio management. The agency tax costs problem undermines the traditional assumption that mutual funds and their individual investors have the common goal of maximizing returns. My research reveals that this underlying assumption is flawed, as it overlooks the tax rules that govern investment funds and the way these rules shape the economic incentives of mutual funds managers and advisors. These incentives create a conflict of interest between institutional investors and their tax-sensitive investors, which has been largely overlooked. The analysis of the agency tax costs problem also illuminates the ways in which the rise of financial intermediaries has impacted the tax behavior of public corporations, which in turn, has affected the tax liability of investors in capital markets. While this result has significant implications for market participants and society at large, the paths through which these effects occur and their underlying economic rationales have received little attention. This chapter addresses this scholarly gap by examining the role of corporate governance structures as well as the role of tax law and policy in shaping the tax incentives of the most powerful market actors in the U.S. economy. Chapter 3 of this dissertation, The Corporate Governance Cartel, offers a novel antitrust perspective on a growing phenomenon in capital markets that has accompanied the rise of institutional ownership: institutional investor coalitions. Traditionally, corporate law has regarded such coalitions as desirable, a solution to the well-known collective action problem facing public shareholders. In this chapter, I challenge that view by revealing the anticompetitive risks that investor coalitions pose. This chapter shows how investor coalitions can emerge at the border between firms and markets, affecting not only the intra-firm governance arrangements of the companies held by the coalition members—but capital markets as well. At the firm/market border, cooperation among institutional investors, even around seemingly benign corporate governance issues, provides an opportunity for tacit collusion among these investors in the markets in which they compete. To illustrate this problem, I use an antitrust lens to analyze the collective efforts of institutional investors to restrict the use of dual-class stock in initial public offerings (IPOs). This original account of the coalition against dual-class structures exposes the significant anticompetitive effects that may arise at the IPO juncture when competing buyers of shares in the primary market coordinate their response to a governance term. Since the members of the coalition collectively possess most of the expected market demand for public offerings, their joint efforts can be seen as an exercise of buyer-side power. The exploitation of such power effectively creates a cartel of buyers in the primary market, resulting in two potential economic distortions: (1) abnormal underpricing of dual-class offerings, and (2) suboptimal governance arrangements. Both distortions reveal overlooked perils associated with the massive aggregation of power by institutional investors. In my antitrust analysis of investor coalitions, I also focus on institutional investor consortiums, trade associations that promote governance principles on behalf of their institutional members, which notably are on the rise. In analyzing these consortiums, this chapter draws upon antitrust rules relative to standard-setting organizations and explores how these anticompetitive risks are exacerbated by these investor consortiums. Finally, this chapter proposes immediate regulatory responses aimed at preventing institutional investors from engaging in collective actions that limit competition. The suggested policies represent a means to resolve the delicate tension between the goal of corporate law to encourage collaboration among shareholders and the goal of antitrust law to restrict cooperation among competitors.

Thesis (MAcc (Accountancy))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006. / The advent of the internet made it possible to conduct business in a different manner - electronically. Electronic commerce enables residents and vendors to transact with residents and vendors of any other country (jurisdiction) at any time, making the world indeed a smaller place. Electronic commerce has, however, raised many questions internationally. Determining the effect of such transactions on the tax take of a country is of great importance to a government. The South African Revenue Service adjusted the Income Tax Act in order to take globalisation into account in accordance with international direction. In contrast, no changes have been suggested for the indirect taxation, namely value added tax. Electronic commerce were not contemplated when the Value-Added Tax Act was introduced in 1991. The charging section (section 7 of the mentioned act) provides that a transaction will be taxed in South Africa on the supply of goods or services, on the import of goods and on the supply of an imported service. In traditional business the place of supply was easy to define because a pure consumption test could be applied: namely that the place of supply is where the goods or services have been consumed. Today this rule will put an enormous compliance burden on vendors since the physical place of consumption in electronic commerce is not that obvious (Masters, 2001). Not only must the precise place of supply be determined but the vendor also has to value the supply in multiple jurisdictions. This study highlights the applicable sections of the Value-Added Tax Act and applies it to electronic commerce in order to determine if the existing legislation should be modernised or if parts of it needs to be re-written. The following concepts will be considered: • Place of supply in order to determine the jurisdiction where tax must be charged. • Value of supply to determine the value on which tax must be charged. • Vendor to determine which entities, South African or otherwise, have to register for VAT in South Africa. • Goods. • Services to consider goods and services of digital content. The international initiatives regarding the application of consumption tax, under the leadership of the Fiscal Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, were taken into account in the study of any required amendments to sections of the Value-Added Tax Act. A group, “The Consumption Tax Technical Advisory Group”, was established in January 1999 by the OECD to consult with business and non-members on the implementation of consumption tax on electronic commerce transactions. The composition of the group is representative of the main trading nations in the world, but also includes smaller countries, non-members and private sector participants. It includes Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and the European Commission. Considering the global composition of the group this study will focus on the initiatives of the OECD and it is not deemed necessary to investigate the initiatives of individual countries. The study will however consider the research and initiatives of South Africa’s biggest commercial partner, the European Union (OECD, 2004a: 285). The South African initiatives regarding electronic commerce include the Green Paper on Electronic Commerce released by the Department of Communication in November 2000 and the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act promulgated on 26 June 2002. The legislation does not address the tax implication of electronic commerce but in chapter 4 of the mentioned green paper it was discussed by the legislators. There is growing international pressure to lower corporate income tax rates. As the tax base erodes in this area other sources, possibly consumer taxation, must be found to meet the shortfalls (Masters, 2001). It is the aim of this study to show that the present Value-Added Tax Act is in need of modernisation in order to take into account the wide range of electronic commerce transactions.

Thesis (MAccounting)--Stellenbosch University, 2013. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The interaction between the income tax provisions contained in sections 9B, 9C, 11(a) and 22 of the Income Tax Act No. 58 of 1962 (the Act), and the capital gains tax (CGT) provisions of the Eighth Schedule of the Act, are complex and share dealers should approach the tax consequences of share dealing profits with caution. The objective of the assignment was to ensure that the share dealing profits of share dealers (who transact on revenue account) are taxed correctly, with specific reference to the interaction between the aforementioned provisions. This was achieved by considering tax cases, the interpretation notes of the South African Revenue Services (SARS) and commentary of tax writers. Examples of share disposals were incorporated to illustrate that consistency is required between the calculation of profits for income tax and CGT purposes. The guidelines laid down by case law to determine the revenue nature of share disposals were investigated. It was concluded that share dealing profits which are designedly sought for and worked for, either as part of a business operation or not, are of a revenue nature and taxable as such. The method of identification of shares sold as trading stock is important when calculating the income tax profit, since it is used in order to determine both which shares are sold as well as the cost of the shares sold. It was concluded that the method of identification applied in terms of generally accepted accounting practice (GAAP) is generally also acceptable from an income tax perspective. Section 9C of the Act provides a share dealer income tax relief when a ‘qualifying share’ is disposed of. Any amount received or accrued as a result of the disposal of a qualifying share is deemed to be of a capital nature, regardless of the revenue intention of the share dealer. Prior to 1 October 2007, section 9B of the Act provided similar relief to the disposal of an ‘affected share’. It was concluded that section 9C of the Act has a wider scope of application compared to section 9B of the Act. Because the proceeds received on the disposal of affected or qualifying shares are excluded from gross income, the acquisition costs previously incurred and deducted in respect of such shares must be included in taxable income. It was determined that the amount to be included in income is the actual cost of such shares and not the opening trading stock value determined in terms of GAAP and claimed in terms of section 22(2) of the Act. It was concluded that the first-in-first-out (FIFO) method of identification should be applied to determine which affected or qualifying shares have been disposed of. From a CGT perspective, it was illustrated that a share dealer loses the opportunity to choose which identification method to apply and is obliged to also apply the FIFO method in calculating the CGT base cost of the shares. It is concluded that the Eighth Schedule of the Act should be amended to clarify that the FIFO method should be applied for CGT purposes where sections 9B or 9C of the Act find application. Only then will the tax profits of a share dealer be in sync with his or her cash benefit. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die interaksie tussen die inkomstebelastingbepalings vervat in artikels 9B, 9C, 11(a) en 22 van die Inkomstebelastingwet No. 58 van 1962 (die Wet), en die kapitaalwinsbelastingbepalings (KWB bepalings) van die Agtste Bylae tot die Wet is kompleks en aandelehandelaars moet die belastinggevolge van aandelewinste met omsigtigheid benader. Die doelwit van die werkstuk was om te verseker dat die winste van aandelehandelaars (wat aandele verkoop op inkomsterekening) korrek belas word, met spesifieke verwysing na die interaksie tussen die voorgenoemde bepalings. Dit is bereik deur die oorweging van hofsake, uitlegnotas van die Suid-Afrikaanse Inkomstediens en kommentaar deur belastingskrywers. Voorbeelde van aandeleverkope is gebruik om te illustreer dat konsekwentheid tussen die berekening van winste vir inkomstebelasting en KWB-doeleindes ‘n vereiste is. Die riglyne wat deur regspraak daargestel is om die inkomste-aard van aandeleverkope vas te stel, is ondersoek. Daar is bevind dat aandelewinste wat opsetlik nagejaag word en voor gewerk word, ongeag of dit deel van die bedryf van 'n besigheid is al dan nie, van ‘n inkomste-aard is en aldus belasbaar is. Die metode van identifikasie van aandele wat as handelsvoorraad verkoop word is belangrik by die berekening die inkomstebelastingwins aangesien dit gebruik word om vas te stel watter aandele verkoop is en wat die koste van die verkoopte aandele is. Daar is bevind dat die metode wat ingevolge algemeen aanvaarde rekeningkundige praktyk (AARP) toegepas is, gewoonlik ook vir inkomstebelastingdoeleindes toelaatbaar is. Artikel 9C van die Wet verskaf aan ‘n aandelehandelaar inkomstebelastingverligting met die verkoop van 'n 'kwalifiserende aandeel' deurdat die bedrag ontvang of toegeval geag word van 'n kapitale aard te wees, ongeag die inkomstebedoeling van die aandelehandelaar. Voor 1 Oktober 2007 het artikel 9B van die Wet soortgelyke verligting verskaf met die verkoop van n 'geaffekteerde aandeel’. Daar is vasgestel dat artikel 9C van die Wet 'n wyer toepassing het in vergelyking met artikel 9B van die Wet. Omrede die opbrengs ontvang met die verkoop van geaffekteerde of kwalifiserende aandele uitgesluit word van bruto inkomste, moet die vorige aankoopskostes wat voorheen ten opsigte van die aandele aangegaan en afgetrek is, by belasbare inkomste ingesluit word. Daar is bepaal dat die bedrag wat by belasbare inkomste ingesluit word, die werklike koste van die aandele is en nie die AARP openingswaarde van handelsvoorraad wat ingevolge artikel 22(2) van die Wet geëis nie. Daar is bevind dat die eerste-in-eerste-uit (EIEU) metode van identifikasie gebruik moet word om te bepaal watter geaffekteerde of kwalifiserende aandele verkoop is. Vir KWB doeleindes verloor 'n aandelehandelaar ook die geleentheid om te kan kies watter identifikasiemetode toegepas moet word. Hy of sy is verplig om die EIEU metode toe te pas in die berekening van die KWB basiskoste van die aandele. Daar word tot die gevolgtrekking gekom dat die Agtste Bylae van die Wet gewysig moet word om te bevestig dat die EIEU metode toegepas moet word vir KWB doeleindes waar artikels 9B of 9C van die Wet van toepassing is. Slegs dan is die belasbare wins van 'n aandelehandelaar in lyn is met sy of haar kontantvoordeel.

Thesis (MAcc)--Stellenbosch University, 2014. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The requirements of section 11(a) and section 24J(2) were considered in this research assignment, from both a money-lender’s and an investment holding company’s perspective, to determine whether interest, losses on irrecoverable loans and raising fees were tax deductible. It was determined, that if the trade requirement is satisfied by the money-lender, then the above-mentioned expenses are fully tax deductible. However, if the trade requirement is satisfied by the investment holding company then only the interest is fully tax deductible. It is further submitted however in this research assignment that it cannot be said that the money-lender alternative is better than the investment holding company alternative – both alternatives are of equal value in the current tax system. What is important though is that taxpayers who will fit the mould of an investment holding company will now be able to use the principles set out in this research assignment to prove that it is in fact carrying on a trade for tax purposes, something that taxpayers are generally reluctant to pursue. If this is pursued, taxpayers may have the added tax benefit of tax deductible interest expenditure (in full) in cases where this was not previously the norm (and an investment holding company will not have to satisfy any of the guidelines of the “money-lender test” when it seeks to deduct its interest expense in full). However, if an investment holding company seeks to deduct losses on irrecoverable loans and raising fees for tax purposes, it will not have to satisfy all the guidelines of the “money-lender test”, but it will have to satisfy one guideline, that being the “system or plan” and “frequent turnover of capital” guideline. It will be very difficult for an investment holding company to prove this on the facts of the case – it will arguably take a special set of facts to accomplish this mean feat. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die vereistes van artikel 11(a) en artikel 24J (2) is in hierdie navorsingsopdrag vanuit ʼn geldskieter en 'n beleggingshouermaatskappy se perspektief oorweeg, om die belastingaftrekbaarheid van rente, verliese op oninvorderbare lenings en diensfooie te bepaal. Daar is vasgestel dat indien die bedryfsvereiste deur ʼn geldskieter nagekom word, bogenoemde uitgawes ten volle vir belastingdoeleindes aftrekbaar is. Indien die bedryfsvereiste egter nagekom word deur ʼn beleggingshouermaatskappy sal slegs die rente ten volle aftrekbaar wees vir belastingdoeleindes. Verder word dit in die navorsingsopdrag aan die hand gedoen dat daar nie gesê kan word dat die geldskieter-alternatief beter is as die beleggingshouermaatskappy-alternatief nie – beide alternatiewe is van gelyke waarde in die huidige belastingbestel. Die onderskeid is egter belangrik, aangesien die belastingbetalers wat aan die vereistes van ʼn beleggingshouermaatskappy voldoen, nou in staat sal wees om die beginsels wat in hierdie navorsingsopdrag uiteengesit word, te gebruik om te bewys dat die beleggingshouermaatskappy in werklikheid ʼn bedryf vir belastingdoeleindes beoefen. Belastingbetalers is oor die algemeen huiwerig om dit te poog. Indien wel, kan belastingbetalers ʼn belastingaftrekking ten opsigte van rente uitgawes kry, wat voorheen nie die norm was nie (ʼn beleggingshouermaatskappy sal nie enige van die “geldskietertoets” riglyne hoef na te kom wanneer dit poog om ʼn belastingafrekking vir die rente uitgawe te kry nie). Indien ʼn beleggingshouermaatskappy verliese op oninvorderbare lenings en diensfooie vir belastingdoeleindes wil aftrek, sal die belastingbetaler nie al die “geldskietertoets” riglyne hoef na te kom nie, maar sal egter moet voldoen aan die “stelsel of plan” en “gereelde omset van kapitaal” riglyne. Dit sal baie moeilik wees vir 'n beleggingshouermaatskappy om dit te bewys op grond van die feite van die saak – dit sal waarskynlik ʼn spesiale stel feite verg om dit te bereik.

Thesis (MAcc)-- Stellenbosch University, 2014. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Section 12 of the Value-Added Tax Act No. 89 of 1991 (hereafter referred to as the VAT Act) determines that the supply of certain goods and/or services are exempt from value-added tax (hereafter referred to as VAT) levied by section 7(1)(a). One such exempt supply is the supply of educational services by certain institutions (listed in section 12(h)(i)(aa)-(cc)). Section 12(h)(i)(bb) determines that the supply of educational services by an higher institution are specifically exempt from VAT. The term “educational services” is not defined in the VAT Act. Uncertainty exists in practice about what exactly educational services comprise and what the scope of it is. Since the supply of educational services is an exempt supply in terms of section 12(h)(i)(bb), a clear and irrefutable definition of “educational services” should exist. Two of the main purposes of an university is to deliver education of exceptional quality and good research outputs. The primary question that originates is whether the research performed by an university qualifies as an exempt supply with the result that the performance of research is an exempt supply. The term “research” was investigated in several sources and it was found that research can be generically be defined as the systematic investigation of existing knowledge and the creation of, amongst others, new knowledge and inventions. Furthermore, it was found that research can be divided into two categories, namely research performed at no consideration and research performed at consideration. Research performed at consideration is further divided into two subcategories, namely commercial research (where the purpose is to generate income) and non-commercial research (where the purpose is research). The definition of “educational” and other bent forms of the term “educate”, amongst others, “education” and “educator” were investigated in relevant South African legislation, case law and international legislation and case law. Commercial research is considered to be a supply of a business activity of a university with the main objective of generating income and is considered as a taxable supply in the case law of the United Kingdom and Canada. Non-commercial research is considered as supplies in the course or furtherance of an enterprise, but the main purpose of the enterprise is not to generate income. Non-commercial research is considered as an “educational service” since it meets the requirements of systematic instruction of education and learning. This type of research is exempt from VAT levied. The input tax of any costs incurred with regards to this type of research will not be claimable. It is suggested that the principles highlighted in this study might clear up the confusion surrounding whether research performed by an university qualifies as an exempt supply or not. SARS could possibly establish guidelines to determine when research is considered exempt or taxable. This information could be useful for role players in the South African tax environment if the matter arises. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Artikel 12 van die Wet op Belasting op Toegevoegde Waarde No. 89 van 1991 (hierna verwys as die BTW-wet) bepaal dat die lewering van sekere goed en/of dienste van die heffing van belasting op toegevoegde waarde (hierna verwys as BTW) wat deur artikel 7(1)(a) opgelê is, vrygestel is. Een sodanige vrygestelde lewering is die lewering van opvoedkundige dienste deur sekere instellings (gelys in artikel 12(h)(i)(aa)-(cc)). Artikel 12(h)(i)(bb) bepaal dat die lewering van opvoedkundige dienste deur ’n inrigting wat hoër onderwys verskaf, spesifiek van BTW vrygestel is. Die term “opvoedkundige dienste” word egter nêrens in die BTW-wet gedefinieer nie. Daar bestaan dus onsekerheid in die praktyk oor wat presies opvoedkundige dienste behels en wat die omvang daarvan is. Aangesien die lewering van ’n opvoedkundige diens ’n vrygestelde lewering ingevolge artikel 12(h)(i)(bb) is, moet daar dus ’n duidelike en onweerlegbare omskrywing van “opvoedkundige dienste” bestaan. Om onderrig van uitmuntende gehalte en goeie navorsinguitsette te lewer is twee van ’n universiteit se hoofdoelwitte. Die primêre vraag wat gevolglik ontstaan is of die uitvoer van spesifiek navorsing, deur ’n universiteit kwalifiseer as die lewering van opvoedkundige dienste met die gevolg dat die uitvoer van navorsing ’n vrygestelde lewering is. Die term “navorsing” is in verskeie bronne ondersoek en daar is bevind dat navorsing generies gedefinieer kan word as die sistematiese ondersoek van reedsbestaande kennis en die skep van, onder andere, nuwe kennis en uitvindings. Daar is ook verder bevind dat navorsing in twee kategorieë verdeel kan word, naamlik navorsing uitgevoer teen geen vergoeding en navorsing uitgevoer teen vergoeding. Navorsing uitgevoer teen vergoeding word verder in twee subkategorieë onderverdeel in kommersiële navorsing (waar die generering van inkomste die hoofdoel is) en nie-kommersiële navorsing (waar navorsing die hoofdoel is). Die definisie van “opvoedkundige” en ander verbuigde vorme van die term “opvoed”, onder andere, “opvoeding” en “opvoeder”, is ook in relevante Suid-Afrikaanse wetgewing, regspraak en internasionale wetgewing en regspraak ondersoek. Kommersiële navorsing word as deel van die besigheidsaktiwiteite van ’n universiteit met die hoofdoel as generering van inkomste en dus as ’n belasbare lewering in die regspraak van die Verenigde Koninkryk en Kanada beskou. Nie-kommersiële navorsing word ook beskou as lewerings wat in die loop of ter bevordering van die onderneming gelewer word, maar die hoofdoel van hierdie onderneming is nie die generering van inkomste nie. Nie-kommersiële navorsing word dus beskou as ’n “opvoedkundige diens”, aangesien dit voldoen aan die vereiste van sistematiese instruksie van onderrig en leer. Hierdie tipe navorsing is dus vrygestel van die heffing van BTW. Enige onkoste aangegaan met betrekking tot hierdie tipe navorsing se insetbelasting sal dus ook nie eisbaar wees nie. Dit word aan die hand gedoen dat hierdie studie beginsels uitlig wat die verwarring rondom of navorsing gelewer deur ’n universiteit ’n vrygestelde lewering is of nie, moontlik kan opklaar. Die SAID kan moontlike riglyne daarstel van wanneer navorsing beskou word as vrygestel of belasbaar. Hierdie inligting kan moontlik van nut wees vir rolspelers in die Suid-Afrikaanse belastingomgewing indien die kwessie na vore tree.

A research report submitted to the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Commerce (Specialising in Taxation) / In this research report the South African taxation of carried interest in a private equity context is examined. The extent to which reform of that taxation should be considered is also presented in this report. The nature of carried interest in the South African private equity context is initially examined. Thereafter, a discussion of the relevant provisions of the Income Tax Act and related South African case law that would likely apply to the taxation of carried interest is set out. An analysis and determination of how appropriate and adequate the taxing provisions and relevant principles from case law are in the taxation of carried interest is provided. A recommendation for new legislation to deal with the taxation of carried interest has also been made. / MT2017

A Research Report submitted to the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Commerce (specialising in Taxation) Degree: Master of Commerce (specialising in Taxation) Date: 30 March 2016 / The decision to undertake domestic (onshore) or international (offshore) trade activity should be one primarily influenced by the perceived commercial viability and sustainability of the trade activity in a local or foreign jurisdiction. As with all investment decisions, the decision to trade onshore or offshore should not be a “tax decision”, i.e. a decision motivated primarily by the resultant tax outcome of such trade in the jurisdiction under consideration. ‘Tax is usually not a major factor in the initial decision of an enterprise to make a direct investment abroad. Other factors such as return on investment, political stability, labo[u]r costs and access to foreign markets, are much more important as far as the original investment is concerned. The tax “tail” should not wag the commercial “dog”.1 Similarly, the decision to trade onshore or offshore should never result from a “taxable person or taxable entity decision”, i.e. a decision to trade onshore or offshore based on the manipulation of the existing mismatch in tax treatment between different ‘persons’ as recognised (whether defined or not) in the relevant tax legislation. Persons typically recognised for the purpose of tax legislation include, inter alia, natural individuals, companies2 and trusts. ‘A partnership, in South African law, is not a legal person distinct from the partners of whom it is composed, nor is a partnership a taxable persona for the purposes of the Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 (the ‘Act’).’3 The purpose of this research will be to reveal the creation of a bias in the matter of double taxation of companies, in comparison to, the avoidance of double taxation within partnerships, even where it is observed that the characteristics of a modern partnership are increasingly akin to those of a company. This is a phenomenon found to occur in many jurisdictions across the world. Essentially, the premise of this research is to assert that a company is subject to economic double taxation in South Africa and certain jurisdictions, whereas a partnership, although closely resembling a company (i.e. a ‘quasi-partnership’), is not. / MT2017

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-04-06T12:54:49Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Braulio Bata Simões.pdf: 2259000 bytes, checksum: 85bf12750799d4ccddb9ece8bd236aff (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-06T12:54:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Braulio Bata Simões.pdf: 2259000 bytes, checksum: 85bf12750799d4ccddb9ece8bd236aff (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-09 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / The work aims to analyse the doctrine of tax Law, through a detailed study and following the methodological criteria chosen, the constitutional and legal limits for the institution of the third party tax liability, as well as the implications of the adoption of certain positions against the philosophical currents of law, especially in the face of neo-constitutionalist conceptions. The central object is to analyze the taxpayer's tax liability, not only as a subject of duties before the Administration, but also, and mainly, as subject of rights at the time of satisfaction of the tax credit, having the dignity of the human person as the vertex interpretative of the system. The work aims the deep study of third party responsibility, allocated in articles 134 and 135 of the CTN in the face of the current procedural pragmatics of tax accountability, especially through the analysis of Súmula nº 435 of the STJ and the possibilities and grounds for its overcoming / O presente trabalho visa analisar a dogmática tributária, por meio do estudo pormenorizado e seguindo os critérios metodológicos escolhidos, os limites constitucionais e legais para a instituição da norma de responsabilidade tributária de terceiros, bem como as implicações da adoção de determinados posicionamentos em face das correntes filosóficas do direito, especialmente diante das concepções do neoconstitucionalismo. O objeto central consiste em analisar o sujeito passivo da obrigação tributária não só como sujeito de deveres perante a Administração, mas também, e principalmente, como sujeito de direitos no momento da satisfação do crédito tributário, tendo a dignidade da pessoa humana como vértice interpretativo do sistema. O trabalho visa o estudo profundo da responsabilidade de terceiros, alocada nos artigos 134 e 135 do CTN, diante da atual pragmática processual de responsabilização tributária, sobretudo mediante a análise da Súmula nº 435 do STJ e as possibilidades e os fundamentos de sua superação

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-07-25T11:52:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernanda Mara de Oliveira Macedo Carneiro Pacobahyba.pdf: 2034067 bytes, checksum: 3152b483af6e834bafb8609a021c1b03 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-25T11:52:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernanda Mara de Oliveira Macedo Carneiro Pacobahyba.pdf: 2034067 bytes, checksum: 3152b483af6e834bafb8609a021c1b03 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-24 / When observing the way in which the juridical-tax interpretation has been processed, distinct movements are perceived and that seem to fit in a point of intellectual confrontation. On the one hand, traditional hermeneutics, based on the literality of the CTN, which seeks the meaning of normative texts from an extraction of their contents. And from this hermeneutics, the construction of doctrine and jurisprudence that makes verberar a sense of assertiveness, completeness, certainty. From another perspective, movements that identify law as being a language, which culminates in complex ideas and a constant dialogue between texts, given the difficulty always present in seeing the legal reality under the sign of language. In the doctrine and jurisprudence that follow, deepening in matters that before seemed exhausted, returns to the fundamental normative structures and recognition of the incompleteness of everything that is said about the legal-tributary phenomenon. And here, emerges the Logical-Semantic Constructivism, by Paulo de Barros Carvalho. The justification of this research is based on the original approach that seeks to offer to the problematic, considering that it approaches the idea of hermeneutical movements in the Science of Law, in order to investigate the possibility of establishing the proper characteristics of these two movements, located in times not -chronic logics: the first, from the "past that is still present", represents the traditional approach; the second, of the "future that is already present", has as its starting point the fundamental work of Logical-Semantic Constructivism. Thus, the starting problem is: can individual different motifs be identified in the way Brazilian juridical-tax hermeneutics takes place? The general objective of the research is to investigate the possibility of identifying these hermeneutical movements and the establishment of characters that represent the overcoming of the traditional model, given the inflows resulting from the adoption of the paradigm of language, as well as the promulgation of the Federal Constitution of 1988 and, more recently, the new Code of Civil Procedure. The methodology used is the path that interweaves the analytical-hermeneutic method, which is characteristic of Logical-Semantic Constructivism, under the influence of semiotic perspectives in the juridical data: here the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic plans structuring of language, by which the object itself is constructed by a subject, which is also by language. With all of this, the structuring of the thought contained in this work margeia reflections that are processed in the scope of Legal Epistemology, Law Theory and Tax Law itself. The central hypothesis of the work is that, in spite of new intellectual influences in Brazilian juridical-tax doctrine, jurists and scholars of tax law still rely on ulteriorated hermeneutic views, clinging to the use of the various methods scattered in the CTN and masking the complexity of the normative phenomenon. This is true even after the decisive influences of CF / 88. In this way, the possibilities that allow us to deal with different paradigms in the interpretation of texts and legal-tax aspects, as a way of undertaking a new legal rationality that align General Theory of Law and Tax Law from the dialogue between the different languages are deepened, competent and incompetent, which are reflected in Brazilian normative discourse / Ao se observar a maneira como se processa a interpretação jurídico-tributária, percebem-se movimentos distintos e que parecem calhar em um ponto de enfrentamento intelectual. De um lado, a Hermenêutica tradicional, fincada na literalidade do CTN, e que busca o sentido dos textos normativos com base na extração de seus conteúdos. E arrimada nesta Hermenêutica, a elaboração da doutrina e da jurisprudência que que faz verberar um sentido de assertividade, de completude, de certeza. Sob outra perspectiva, movimentos que identificam o Direito como sendo linguagem, o que faz culminar em ideias complexas e em um diálogo constante entre textos, dada a dificuldade sempre ocorrente em se enxergar a realidade jurídica sob o signo da linguagem. Na doutrina e na jurisprudência que lhe seguem, aprofundamentos em matérias que antes pareciam esgotadas, retornos às estruturas fundamentais normativas e reconhecimento da incompletude de tudo quanto se diga acerca do fenômeno jurídico-tributário. E aqui desponta o Constructivismo Lógico-Semântico, de Paulo de Barros Carvalho. A justificativa desta pesquisa se fundamenta no enfoque original que se busca oferecer à problemática, tendo em vista que aborda a ideia de movimentos hermenêuticos na Ciência do Direito, de sorte a investigar a possibilidade de estabelecimento dos caracteres próprios desses dois movimentos, situados em tempos não cronológicos distintos: o primeiro, do “passado que ainda se faz presente”, representa o enfoque tradicional; o segundo, do “futuro que já se faz presente”, tem como ponto de partida a obra fundamental do Constructivismo Lógico-Semântico. Com efeito, o problema de partida é: podem ser individualizados mo(vi)mentos distintos na maneira como se processa a Hermenêutica Jurídico-Tributária brasileira? O objetivo geral da pesquisa é investigar a possibilidade de identificação desses movimentos hermenêuticos e o estabelecimento de caracteres que representem a superação do modelo tradicional, dados os influxos decorrentes da adoção do paradigma da linguagem, bem como da promulgação da Constituição Federal de 1988 e, mais recentemente, do Código de Processo Civil de 2016. A metodologia utilizada é o caminho que interlaça o método analítico-hermenêutico, próprio do Constructivismo Lógico-Semântico, sob os influxos de perspectivas semióticas no dado jurídico: aqui, a estruturação de planos sintático, semântico e pragmático da linguagem, pelo qual o próprio objeto é construído por um sujeito, que também é pela linguagem. Com tudo isso, a estruturação do pensamento contido neste trabalho margeia reflexões que se processam no âmbito da Epistemologia Jurídica, da Teoria do Direito e do próprio Direito Tributário. A hipótese central do trabalho é que, apesar de novos influxos intelectuais na dogmática jurídico-tributária brasileira, os juristas e estudiosos do Direito Tributário ainda se valem de panoramas hermenêuticos ultrapassados, apegando-se à utilização dos diversos métodos espraiados no CTN e que mascaram a complexidade do fenômeno normativo. E isso se dá mesmo após as influências determinantes da CF/88. Efetivamente, aprofundam-se as possibilidades que permitem lidar com paradigmas diferenciados na interpretação dos textos e dos fatos jurídico-tributários, como a maneira de empreender uma nova racionalidade jurídica que alinhe Teoria Geral do Direito e Direito Tributário com esteio no diálogo entre as diversas linguagens, competentes e incompetentes, que se plasmam no discurso normativo brasileiro

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-12-11T13:21:12Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernanda Teodoro Arantes.pdf: 1462812 bytes, checksum: 07041a9b4e17061cfd6a3ac4ec341059 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-11T13:21:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernanda Teodoro Arantes.pdf: 1462812 bytes, checksum: 07041a9b4e17061cfd6a3ac4ec341059 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-08-22 / The present work intends to investigate the standard of incidence of rural territorial tax, exemption and instrumental duties. To do so, we first draw the method used for the elaboration of the work, as that of semantic logical constructivism, we establish premises and clarify fundamental concepts defining them. We address the criteria of the tax incidence rule-array, delving deeper into its general theory to apply to the construction of the rule-array of tax incidence of the rural territorial tax. When constructing this norm of behavior, we have made a split between the fiscal and extra-fiscal rules, in order to analyze carefully all its structure. We find a very complex tax, in the construction of all its criteria from the antecedent of the norm, which are: material (concept of property and rural property), spatial (between destination and location) and temporal, as well as (passive and active) (quantitative or not) and quantitative (exemption, non-incidence, principle of contributory capacity, isonomy, non-confiscation). The division of the norm of behavior allowed us to verify the strict relation of the extrafiscal tax rate with the materiality that authorizes it, what is the exercise of the social function. The analysis of the exemption rules led us to also investigate the institute of non-incidence and its application in this tax, as well as to observe its structure as a standard of structure. The duties of presenting the ADA, CAR, and registering the legal reserve in enrollment, instigated us to classify them as instrumental duties of the exemption rules, which had repercussions in the analysis of the imposed sanction. We conclude with the analysis of some practical cases, such as the incidence of ITR in the areas of mineral exploration, landfill and embargoed for any activity by competent agent. To conclude we made our final considerations exploring the main constructions realized on the subject / O presente trabalho foi realizado com intuito de investigar a norma de incidência do imposto territorial rural, de isenção e dos deveres instrumentais. Primeiramente foi traçado o método utilizado para a elaboração do trabalho – o constructivismo-lógico semântico – firmadas premissas e esclarecidos conceitos fundamentais. Foram abordados os critérios da regra-matriz de incidência tributária, com aprofundamento na sua teoria geral para aplicação à construção da regra-matriz de incidência tributária do imposto territorial rural. Quando da construção dessa norma de comportamento, foi feita uma cisão entre a norma fiscal e extrafiscal pra a análise cuidadosa de toda sua estrutura. Ao longo da pesquisa, foi descoberto um tributo muito complexo, na construção de todos os seus critérios, desde os do antecedente da norma, quais sejam: material (conceito de propriedade e de imóvel rural), espacial (entre a destinação e a localização) e temporal, como também os do consequente da norma: pessoal (sujeição passiva e ativa (parafiscalidade ou não) e quantitativo (isenção, não incidência, princípio da capacidade contributiva, isonomia, não confisco). A cisão da norma de comportamento permitiu verificar a estrita relação da alíquota extrafiscal com a materialidade que lhe autoriza, qual seja o exercício da função social. A análise das normas de isenção levou a pesquisa a investigar também o instituto da não incidência e sua aplicação neste imposto, além de observar sua estrutura como norma de estrutura. Os deveres da apresentação do ADA, CAR, e averbação da reserva legal na matrícula, instigou esta investigação a classificá-los como deveres instrumentais das normas isentivas, o que repercutiu na análise da sanção imposta. Ao final, são analisados alguns casos práticos, como a incidência do ITR nas áreas de exploração mineral, de aterro sanitário e embargadas para qualquer atividade por agente competente. Para concluir, a dissertação traz nossas considerações finais explorando as principais construções realizadas sobre o tema