Us Income Tax Treaties

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This book contains an array of material relating to the United States tax treaty network. It serves as a handy desk reference book that provides easy and quick access to the major US tax treaties, and offers the opportunity to compare several Model treaties with actual US treaties. In addition the book includes: withholding rate tables for dividends, interest and royalties in over 150 US and foreign income tax treaties; cross-reference tables for treaty provisions; a chronical listing of all present and past US income tax treaties; the 1963 and 1977 OECD, the 1980 UN and the 1981 US Model Treaties in tabular comparative form; major portions of the 1977 OECD Commentary; examples of estate and gift tax treaties (US-Germany) and of exchange of tax information agreements (US-Mexico); the recently signed Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters, and an article on interpretation in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.

Proposals on United States income tax treaties. The book is a companion volume to "International aspects of United States income taxation" published in 1987. While the 1987 volume addressed various aspects of US internal income tax law as applied to international transactions, this volume deals with the special set of problems involved in treaties between the US and their trading partners by which it is sought to bring divergent national tax laws and incidents of taxation into reasonable accord.

Comprehensive loose-leaf guide analysing United States income tax treaties. The commentary is divided into three parts providing general background information regarding income tax treaties and the model treaty process, commentary of the individual provisions of the US Model and of existing US treaties, appendices are included.