In 1783, a stamp duty was imposed on proprietary or 'quack' medicines. These largely useless but often dangerous remedies were immensely popular. The tax, which lasted until 1941, was imposed to raise revenue. It failed in its incidental regulatory purpose, had a negative effect in that the stamp was perceived as a guarantee of quality, and had a positive effect in encouraging disclosure of the formula. The book explains the considerable impact the tax had on chemists and druggists - how it led to an improvement in professional status, but undermined it by reinforcing their reputations as traders. The legislation imposing the tax was complex, ambiguous and never reformed. The tax authorities had to administer it, and executive practice came to dominate it. A minor, specialised, low-yield tax is shown to be of real significance in the pharmaceutical context, and of exceptional importance as a model revealing the wider impact of tax law and administration.

Stamp Taxes 2021/22 is a comprehensive and practical guide to all current UK stamp and land taxes: Stamp Duty Land Tax (England and Northern Ireland), Stamp Duty (UK) and Stamp Duty Reserve Tax (UK), together with commentary on Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Scotland) and Land Transaction Tax (Wales). It explains the reasons behind many of the current rules by exploring the history and development of stamp taxes, whilst setting out the scope of each tax and explaining how they interact. Including numerous examples, with references to legislation, case law and HMRC guidance throughout, this is a practical handbook for those working in tax advisory firms and tax departments of corporate groups and other major investors in UK property and companies. It is also a useful study aid for students and trainees studying for membership of professional bodies.

Modern-day tax treaties have their foundations in one of the three Model Tax Treaties developed by the League of Nations in 1928. Using previously unexplored archival material, Sunita Jogarajan provides the first in-depth examination of the development of the League's Models. This new research provides insights into questions such as the importance of double taxation versus tax evasion; the preference for source-taxation versus residence-taxation; the influence of theory and practice on the League's work; the development of bilateral rather than multilateral treaties; the influence of developing countries on the League's work; the role of Commentary in interpreting model tax treaties; and the influential factors and key individuals involved. A better understanding of the development of the original models will inform and help guide interpretation and reform of modern-day tax treaties. Additionally, this book will be of interest to scholars of international relations and the development of law at international organisations.

The book addresses the truly interdisciplinary and highly controversial subject of international financial regulation and supervision, which has been at the center of academic, political, and public attention since the start of the current economic and financial crisis. Drawing on international financial regulatory and supervisory experience and in line with the European Monetary Union's gradual transformation into a Genuine Economic and Monetary Union, it proposes the transformation of the European financial supervisory framework into a hybrid twin-peaks model to create the previously missing necessary legal foundation for the adoption of the so-called Group Support Regime (GSR). The latter is a relatively simple and transparent capital management tool for (re)insurance groups operating in a parent-subsidiary structure proposed by the European Commission under the new Solvency II insurance supervisory framework, which despite lengthy consideration was eventually rejected by Member States.

This book covers organized crime groups, empirical studies of organized crime, criminal finances and money laundering, and crime prevention, gathering some of the most authoritative and well-known scholars in the field. The contributions to this book are new chapters written in honor of Professor Dick Hobbs, on the occasion of his retirement. They reflect his powerful influence on the study of organized crime, offering a novel perspective that located organized crime in its socio-economic context, studied through prolonged ethnographic engagement. Professor Hobbs has influenced a generation of criminology researchers engaged in studying organized crime groups, and this work provides a both a look back and this influence and directions for future research. It will be of interest to researchers in criminology and criminal justice, particularly with a focus on organized crime and financial crime, as well as those interested in corruption, crime prevention, and applications of ethnographic methods.

Instead of the usual apologetic treatment found in legal doctrine, linked to the determinacy, immutability or predictability of norms, this book treats legal certainty innovatively, holistically and in depth. Using a method at once analytical and functional, Professor Avila examines the structural elements of legal certainty, from its definition and foundations to its various dimensions, normative forces and efficacies, citing a wealth of examples from case law to support each of the theses defended. No subject is more important and topical than legal certainty. Problems relating to lack of understanding, instability and unpredictability of law intensify day by day everywhere, in civil law and common law countries alike. Normative sources are increasingly diverse in origin (national, international, community) and multiple in nature (legal, contractual, jurisprudential). They change constantly, and present increasingly frequent problems of ambiguity and vagueness that significantly hinder their comprehension. This state of affairs, which to a greater or lesser extent is true of any legal order, justifies a return to the subject of legal certainty. In this book, essential questions are answered such as: Legal certainty in what sense? Certainty of what, for whom, in whose vision and by whom? When, to what extent, and to what end? "(...) it is probably the most comprehensive and systematic study ever produced on this subject using the analytical method." (Riccardo Guastini, Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Genoa, Italy)

Why should you buy Tolley's International Taxation of Upstream Oil and Gas Third edition This title sets out the significant international tax issues for upstream oil and gas operations, and with an emphasis on tax risk management and related tax planning. Readers will develop skills in identifying tax exposures and opportunities, managing tax negotiations, and applying tax planning solutions. The book is intended to benefit accountants, lawyers, economists, financial managers and government officials, and is the first choice for new starters in upstream oil and gas taxation. The book serves as a great introduction to international tax issues relating to upstream oil and gas, enabling the reader to analyse and understand new situations and circumstances. This third edition explains recent key developments, including the changes in United States upstream oil and gas taxation, the implementation of the OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) measures, and the application of the 2017 OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines, together with related practical case study examples.

This book is about one of the most controversial dilemmas of contract law: whether or not the unexpected change of circumstances due to the effects of financial crises may under certain conditions be taken into account. Growing interconnectedness of global economies facilitates the spread of the effects of the financial crises. Financial crises cause severe difficulties for persons to fulfill their contractual obligations. During the financial crises, performance of contractual obligations may become excessively onerous or may cause an excessive loss for one of the contracting parties and consequently destroy the contractual equilibrium and legitimate the governmental interventions. Uncomfortable economic climate leads to one of the most controversial dilemmas of the contract law: whether the binding force of the contract is absolute or not. In other words, unstable economic circumstances impose the need to devote special attention to review and perhaps to narrow the binding nature of a contract. Principle of good faith and fair dealing motivate a variety of theoretical bases in order to overcome the legal consequences of financial crises. In this book, all these theoretical bases are analyzed with special focus on the available remedies, namely renegotiation, rescission or revision and the circumstances which enables the revocation of these remedies. The book collects the 19 national reports and the general report originally presented in the session regarding the Effects of Financial Crises on the Binding Force of Contracts: Renegotiation, Rescission or Revision during the XIXth congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, held in Vienna, July 2014.

This book examines good faith in non-marine insurance and takaful (Islamic insurance) contracts in Malaysia, and proposes holistic law reform of the same. The first two-thirds of the book comprise an extensive comparative legal analysis of the issues between Malaysia, Australia and the United Kingdom, with the final third dedicated to a socio-economic analysis of law reform and suggestions for law reform particularly suited to Malaysia. The book evaluates whether the duty of utmost good faith (the cornerstone of insurance and takaful contracts) is effectively regulated and, in turn, observed by insurers (and takaful operators) and insureds alike in Malaysia. The adequacy of the Insurance Act 1996 (Malaysia), the Takaful Act 1984 (Malaysia), the Financial Services Act 2013 (Malaysia) and the Islamic Financial Services Act 2013 (Malaysia) is evaluated, along with the supporting infrastructure and oversight measures introduced by the Malaysian government. In doing so, The book examines the duty of utmost good faith from both a doctrinal and a social science perspective, in order to propose suitable legal reform.

Figuring Out the Tax recounts the forgotten early development of the federal income tax in the US, resulting from the interplay between Congress and the Treasury Department in the decades following the enactment of the tax in 1913. It covers a wide range of topics including the income tax treatments of marriage, capital losses, charitable contributions and homeownership, as well as the rise, demise and resurrection of income tax withholding. Lawrence Zelenak deftly illustrates how the income tax achieved its current form through a range of stories which are new to tax history scholarship and involve some remarkable personalities and surprising plot twists. Although of particular interest to tax academics and professionals, this book will also serve as a useful introduction to the development of income tax for undergraduate students and law students.

Fortschritte in der Medizin, in der Genomforschung und in der Informationstechnik stellen den Datenschutz vor ein Dilemma: Forschung und die Anwendung neuer Methoden setzen haufig voraus, dass personenbezogene Daten in grossem Umfang zentral verfugbar, verteilbar und verknupfbar sind. Gleichzeitig bergen zentrale Datensammlungen und die unubersehbare Weitergabe und Verknupfung sensitiver Daten die Gefahr, dass der Einzelne auf ein Datenraster reduziert wird und Selbstbestimmungsmoeglichkeiten verliert. Den Wertungskonflikten und der Schutzbedurftigkeit und Schutzfahigkeit personenbezogener genetischer, medizinischer und sozialer Daten widmete sich eine multidisziplinare Veranstaltungsreihe des Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt, der Darmstadter Juristischen Gesellschaft und der Fakultat fur Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften der Technischen Universitat Darmstadt. Der vorliegende Band fasst die dabei entwickelten Gedanken verschiedener Wissenschaftsdisziplinen zusammen.

Tax law changes at a startling rate - not only does societal change bring with it demands for change in the tax system, but changes in the political climate will force change, as will many other competing pressures. With this pace of change, it is easy to focus on the practical and forget the core underpinnings of the tax system and their philosophical justifications. Taking a pause to remind ourselves of those principles and how they can operate in the modern tax system is crucial to ensuring that the tax system does not diverge too far from what it should be or could be. It is essential to understand the answers to some of the seemingly basic questions that surround tax before we can even begin to think about what a tax system should look like. This collection brings together major themes and difficult questions in the philosophical foundations of tax law. The chapters consider practical issues such as justification, enforcement, design, and mechanics, and provide a full and coherent analysis of the basis for tax law. Philosophical Foundations of Tax Law allows the reader to consider how tax systems should move forward in the modern world, with a sound philosophical basis, to provide the practical tax system that the state requires and citizens deserve.

"At the end of the Trail of Tears there was a promise," U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the decision issued on July 9, 2020, in the case of McGirt v. Oklahoma. And that promise, made in treaties between the United States and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation more than 150 years earlier, would finally be kept. With the Court's ruling, the full extent of the Muscogee (Creek) Reservation was reaffirmed-meaning that 3.25 million acres of land in Oklahoma, including part of the city of Tulsa, were recognized once again as "Indian Country" as defined by federal law. A Promise Kept explores the circumstances and implications of McGirt v. Oklahoma, likely the most significant Indian law case in well over 100 years. Combining legal analysis and historical context, this book gives an in-depth, accessible account of how the case unfolded and what it might mean for Oklahomans, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and other tribes throughout the United States. For context, Robbie Ethridge traces the long history of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation from its inception in present-day Georgia and Alabama in the seventeenth century; through the tribe's rise to regional prominence in the colonial era, the tumultuous years of Indian Removal, and the Civil War and allotment; and into its resurgence in Oklahoma in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Against this historical background, Robert J. Miller considers McGirt v. Oklahoma, examining important related cases, precedents that informed the Court's decision, and future ramifications-legal, civil, regulatory, and practical-for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, federal Indian law, the United States, the state of Oklahoma, and Indian nations in Oklahoma and elsewhere. Their work clarifies the stakes of a decision that, while long overdue, raises numerous complex issues profoundly affecting federal, state, and tribal relations and law-and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

The Customs and Excise Duties Handbook 2020 combines the content from both the Customs Duties Handbook and the Excise Duties Handbook. Now published as a seven-volume work, the 2020-21 edition covers all the up-to-date legislation on the key areas for customs and excise practitioners. The seven volumes are arranged as follows: 1. General 2a. Union Customs Code 2b. Customs 3. Product Duties 4. Environmental Taxes 5. Betting and Gaming Duties 6. Vehicle Excise Duty Volume 1 is an essential 'quick reference guide' to the most commonly used legislation, ideal for taking to court or client meetings. Volumes 2a and 2b provide the essential UK and EU legislation relating to customs duties, including the new Union Customs Code, the UCC Delegated Act, the UCC Implementing Act and the UCC Transitional Delegated Act in full. Volumes 3 to 6 cover the specific duties. This title could have major Brexit implications, so it will very much depend on what decision is made. Volumes 1, 2a & 2b will be the most heavily affected. Volumes 3 to 6 cover the specific duties.

Vietnam is one of the main developing countries experiencing rapid growth in East Asia. As part of ASEAN and strategically located near China and the Mekong region, Vietnam is considered a leading market between Asian and South Asian countries. Its fiscal system has recently been reformed in order to better align rules with the country's economic development. Vietnam grants tax incentives and fiscal holidays to foreign investors and has concluded a significant number of double taxation treaties with other nations. This book describes in detail Vietnam's complex tax system and policies, as well as major bilateral treaties in which Vietnam has entered into using country-by-country analysis.

According to the doctrine of odious debt, loans which are knowingly provided to subjugate or defraud the population of a debtor state are not legally binding against that state under international law. Breaking with widespread scepticism, this groundbreaking book reaffirms the original doctrine through a meticulous and definitive examination of state practice and legal history. It restates the doctrine by introducing a new classification of odious debts and defines 'odiousness' by reference to the current, much more determinate and litigated framework of existing public international law. Acknowledging that much of sovereign debt is now governed by the private law of New York and England, Jeff King explores how 'odious debts' in international law should also be regarded as contrary to public policy in private law. This book is essential reading for practising lawyers, scholars, and development and human rights workers.

Kaum ein Themenkomplex wird in der steuerpolitischen Diskussion so kontrovers diskutiert, so regelmassig vorubergehend beerdigt und anschliessend wiederbelebt wie die Wiedereinfuhrung einer Vermoegensteuer. Diese Arbeit untersucht, ob eine Vermoegensteuer uberhaupt in verfassungskonformer Weise wiedereingefuhrt werden kann und, falls dies der Fall ist, welche verfassungsrechtlichen Grenzen die Politik dabei zu wahren hat. Hierbei geht die Arbeit insbesondere der Frage nach, ob der so genannte Halbteilungsgrundsatz aus dem Grundgesetz abgeleitet werden kann und wie er zu operationalisieren ist. Die Arbeit zeigt auf, dass eine substanzentziehende Vermoegensteuer verfassungsrechtlich unzulassig ware und dass selbst eine als so genannte Sollertragsteuer ausgestaltete Vermoegensteuer verfassungsrechtlich schwerwiegenden Bedenken unterliegt. Selbst wenn man diese Bedenken ignoriert, ist auf Basis der - verfassungsrechtlich erforderlichen - Anwendung des Halbteilungsgrundsatzes im derzeitigen Steuersystem uberhaupt nur dann Platz fur eine Vermoegensteuer, wenn die Vermoegensteuerschuld bei den Ertragsteuern angerechnet wird. Zustandig fur die Wiedereinfuhrung einer Vermoegensteuer waren derzeit - entgegen der allgemeinen Annahme in Politik und Rechtswissenschaft - die Lander.

This popular reference work contains essential information on all the main UK taxes and related subjects, conveniently arranged to save you the time and effort involved in researching a whole range of source material. Includes vital information on: rates, allowances, reliefs, exemptions, interest rates, exchange rates, social security benefits and much more.

Wolfgang Schoen: Eigenkapital und Fremdkapital - eine steuerpolitische Analyse.- Johannes Becker und Nadja Dwenger: Die Besteuerung von Fremd- und Eigenkapitalaus oekonomischer Sicht.- Christian Marquart: Steuerinduzierte Fremdfinanzierung von Unternehmen und Wege der Begrenzung des Zinsabzugs.- Alexander Jehlin: Die Quellenbesteuerungspolitik fur grenzuberschreitende Zinszahlungen zwischen Industrie- und Entwicklungslandern - mit besonderer Betrachtung der BRIC-Staaten.- Marta Oliveros Castelon: 5 Eigen- und Fremdkapital im Steuer- und Gesellschaftsrecht Brasiliens.- Tobias Beuchert und Philipp Redeker: Eigen- und Fremdkapital im Steuer- und GesellschaftsrechtDeutschlands.- Christine Osterloh-Konrad und Nadia Lagdali: Eigen- und Fremdkapital im Steuer- und Gesellschaftsrecht Frankreichs.- Andreas Bakrozis und Natalia Paxinou: Eigen- und Fremdkapital im Steuer- und Gesellschaftsrecht Griechenlands.- Martin Boer: Eigen- und Fremdkapital im Steuer- und Gesellschaftsrecht der Niederlande.- Sabine Heidenbauer und Astrid Roesener: Eigen- und Fremdkapital im Steuer- und Gesellschaftsrecht OEsterreichs.- Carsten Hohmann und Lukas Muller: Eigen- und Fremdkapital im Steuer- und Gesellschaftsrecht der Schweiz.- Carlo Pohlhausen und Erik Roeder: Eigen- und Fremdkapital im Steuer- und Gesellschaftsrecht des Vereinigten Koenigreichs.- Andreas Gerten, Maximilian Haag und Daniel Kornack: Eigen- und Fremdkapital im Steuer- und Gesellschaftsrecht der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika.- Karin E.M. Kopp (geb. Beck): Eigenkapital, Fremdkapital und hybride Finanzierungen im internationalen Steuerrecht.

Die deutsch-franzoesischen Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen enthalten zur Vermeidung der Doppelbesteuerung Spezialvorschriften fur Immobiliengesellschaften. Im Jahr 2015 wurde mit Art. 7 Abs. 4 eine Vorschrift zu Beteiligungsverausserungen neu eingefuhrt. Dies bietet den Anlass fur eine zusammenhangende Darstellung der bestehenden Abkommensvorschriften zu Immobiliengesellschaften in Einkommensteuer, Vermoegensteuer und Erbschaftsteuer. Die Autorin erlautert hierzu anhand von Grundfallen die Besteuerung in Deutschland und Frankreich bei deutscher Beteiligung an Immobiliengesellschaften mit franzoesischem Immobilienbesitz und veranschaulicht in diesem Kontext das Zusammenspiel zwischen nationaler Besteuerung und Abkommensrecht.

The contributions to this volume try to overcome the traditional approach of the judicature of the European Court of Justice regarding the application of the fundamental freedoms in direct taxation that is largely built on a non-discrimination test. In this volume, outstanding authors cover various aspects of the national and international tax order when European law meets domestic taxation. This includes testing traditional pillars of income taxation - ability-to-pay, source and residence, abuse of law, arm's length standard - with respect to their place in the emerging European tax order as well as substantial matters of co-existence between different tax systems that are not covered by the non-discrimination approach such as mutual recognition, cross-border loss compensation or avoidance of double taxation. The overarching goal is to flesh out the extent to which a substantive "allocation of taxing powers" within the European Union is on its way to a convincing overall framework and to stretch the discussion "beyond discrimination".

The United States faces enormous challenges in the energy area. Climate change, biofuels policy, energy security, and environmental degradation are all intimately bound up with energy production and consumption. Historically, the federal government has relied on tax subsidies to effect energy policy. With mounting federal deficits, policymakers and advocates are increasingly calling for a rethinking of our energy tax policy. How can the federal tax code strengthen environmental policy and reduce security concerns in the area of energy? This book brings together leading tax scholars to answer this question. The authors tackle such difficult problems as climate change, efficient taxation of oil and gas, and optimal oil tax policy in a world with OPEC oil producers dominating world oil supply. This volume presents a number of innovative policy suggestions backed by sophisticated and cutting-edge research carried out by leading scholars in the area of energy taxation. Scholars and policymakers alike will appreciate the incisive analysis and discussion of critical issues that are part of the twenty-first-century energy challenge.