............................................................................................................................. Description Permenant Establishment - Erosion of a Tax Treaty Principle - Series on International Taxation ............................................................................................................................. Contents Part 1 - Introduction 1. Preliminary 2. Some constitutive political and economic elements of international society 3. Theories on allocation of international taxing jurisdiction 4. Main elements in a tax-treaty policy on PE: basic contradictions 5. Methodology: Sources of international fiscal law 6. General historical background: An overview 7. The history of the concept of PE 8. Classification of PE conditions Part 2 - The Basic Rule 9. The taxpayer’s physical presence: The Place of business test 10. Physical presence at a specific place: The location test 11. The right to use the place of business: The right of use test 12. The right of use test for profit-sharing arrangements 13. The rights of use test and arm’s length business connections 14. Indirect evidence of a right of use to a place of business 15. The duration of the right to use the place of business: The permanence test 16. Introduction 17. Business activities excluded in the treaties 18. The domestic law aspect: Income generating activities distinguished from business in the treaties 19. Core business activity or auxiliary or preparatory activities? The tax - treaty aspect of the concept of business 20. The connection between the business and the place of business: the business connection test Part 3 - Construction Work 21. Introduction: The construction clause and its relationship to the basic rule 22. The objectivity of the construction PE: Identification 23. The Subjectivity of the construction PE: The duration test 24. The functionality of the construction PE: The business activity test Part 4 - Offshore Business Activities 25. Introduction 26. Outline of offshore PE fictions 27. Offshore identification provisions in the tax treatise between Norway and the US, the UK, France, and the Nordic states 28. The Business activity test of the offshore clause Part 5 - Agencies 29. Introduction 30. Main trends in the development of the agency clause 31. The agent and the authorization: The objectivity of the agency PE 32. Legal or commercial dependence the subjectivity of the agency PE 33. Deemed dependency: The ordinary course of business test 34. The functionality of the agency PE 35. UN model treaty deviations from the OECD agency clause Part 6 - Subsidiary as PE 36. PE through related corporations Part 7 - Summary and conclusions 37. Summary and conclusions Bibliography Table of case Official documents Index ............................................................................................................................. |