Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgments to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments to the First Edition
List of Abbreviations
PART I
Introduction
CHAPTER 1
Preliminary Issues
CHAPTER 2
Some Constitutive Political and Economic Elements of International Society
CHAPTER 3
Theories on Allocation of International Taxing Jurisdiction
CHAPTER 4
Main Elements in a Tax-Treaty Policy on PE: Basic Contradictions
CHAPTER 5
Methodology: Sources of International Fiscal Law
CHAPTER 6
General Historical Background: An Overview
CHAPTER 7
The History of the Concept of PE
CHAPTER 8
Classification of PE Conditions
PART II
The Basic Rule
CHAPTER 9
The Taxpayer’s Physical Presence: The “Place of Business Test”
CHAPTER 10
Physical Presence at a Specific Place: The “Location Test”
CHAPTER 11
The Right to Use the Place of Business: The “Right of Use Test”: General Remarks
CHAPTER 12
The “Right of Use Test” for Profit-Sharing Arrangements
CHAPTER 13
The “Right of Use Test” and Arm’s-Length Business Connections
CHAPTER 14
Indirect Evidence of a Right of Use to a Place of Business
CHAPTER 15
The Duration of the Right to Use the Place of Business: The “Duration Test”
CHAPTER 16
Introduction
CHAPTER 17
Business Activities Excluded in the Treaties
CHAPTER 18
The Domestic-Law Aspect: Income-Generating Activities Distinguished from “Business” in the Treaties
CHAPTER 19
Core Business Activity or Auxiliary or Preparatory Activities? The Tax-Treaty Aspect of the Concept of “Business”
CHAPTER 20
The Connection Between the Business and the Place of Business: The “Business Connection Test”
PART III
Construction Work
CHAPTER 21
Introduction: The Construction Clause and Its Relationship to the Basic Rule
CHAPTER 22
The Objective Aspects of the Construction PE: Identification
CHAPTER 23
The Subjective Aspect of the Construction PE: The “Duration Test”
CHAPTER 24
The Functional Aspect of the Construction PE: The “Business Activity Test”
PART IV
Offshore Business Activities
CHAPTER 25
Introduction
CHAPTER 26
Outline of Offshore PE Fictions
CHAPTER 27
Offshore Identification Provisions in the Tax Treaties Between Norway and the US, the UK, France, and the Nordic States
CHAPTER 28
The “Business Activity Test” of the Offshore Clause
PART V
Agencies
CHAPTER 29
Introduction
CHAPTER 30
Main Trends in the Development of the Agency Clause
CHAPTER 31
The Agent and the Authorization to Act on Behalf of Somebody Else: The Objectivity of the Agency PE
CHAPTER 32
“Legal” or “Commercial” Dependence: The Subjectivity of the Agency PE
CHAPTER 33
Deemed Dependency: The “Ordinary Course of Business Test”
CHAPTER 34
The Functionality of the Agency PE
CHAPTER 35
UN Model Treaty Deviations from the OECD Agency Clause
PART VI
Subsidiary as PE
CHAPTER 36
PE Through Related Corporations
PART VII
Summary and Conclusions
CHAPTER 37
Summary and Conclusions
Bibliography
Table of Cases
Index