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Author: Alexander Weisser Publisher: Éditions juridiques libres / Freier juristischer Verlag ISBN: 2889540316 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 594
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Cloud computing may be borderless, but taxes are territorial. It is easy to imagine how the two concepts can clash. Much effort has gone into harmonizing tax rules across borders with the result that many jurisdictions have very similar tax rules. Even so, taxation remains a basic expression of national sovereignty. The goal of this thesis is to examine how international tax law applies to the cross-border cloud computing business. Both, multinational providers and customers of cloud computing services are analyzed. Reflecting three traditional areas of international tax scholarship, the goal could be stated in three questions. Which jurisdictions have the right to tax? What kinds of cloud computing transactions can be taxed? What amount of the profit is taxable? In more technical terms, this means enquiring into how the use of cloud computing affects the permanent establishment status of taxpayers, how the different kinds of cloud computing transactions are characterized under international double taxation treaties, and how the calculation of taxable cloud computing profit is affected by transfer pricing. In light of the current political events, the thesis also offers recommendations de lege lata through a systematic approach. Its first part assesses the current taxation of cloud computing. The second part evaluates whether the findings of this initial assessment conform to various superior principles of good rulemaking. It identifies which of the present tax rules ought to be adapted. The final part considers how the rules could be amended to become more compliant with the superior principles. In this way, Part I embodies the thesis, Part II the antithesis, and Part III seeks a synthesis.
Author: Alexander Weisser Publisher: Éditions juridiques libres / Freier juristischer Verlag ISBN: 2889540316 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 594
Book Description
Cloud computing may be borderless, but taxes are territorial. It is easy to imagine how the two concepts can clash. Much effort has gone into harmonizing tax rules across borders with the result that many jurisdictions have very similar tax rules. Even so, taxation remains a basic expression of national sovereignty. The goal of this thesis is to examine how international tax law applies to the cross-border cloud computing business. Both, multinational providers and customers of cloud computing services are analyzed. Reflecting three traditional areas of international tax scholarship, the goal could be stated in three questions. Which jurisdictions have the right to tax? What kinds of cloud computing transactions can be taxed? What amount of the profit is taxable? In more technical terms, this means enquiring into how the use of cloud computing affects the permanent establishment status of taxpayers, how the different kinds of cloud computing transactions are characterized under international double taxation treaties, and how the calculation of taxable cloud computing profit is affected by transfer pricing. In light of the current political events, the thesis also offers recommendations de lege lata through a systematic approach. Its first part assesses the current taxation of cloud computing. The second part evaluates whether the findings of this initial assessment conform to various superior principles of good rulemaking. It identifies which of the present tax rules ought to be adapted. The final part considers how the rules could be amended to become more compliant with the superior principles. In this way, Part I embodies the thesis, Part II the antithesis, and Part III seeks a synthesis.
Author: Orly Mazur Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Transacting business in the “cloud” has quickly gained popularity worldwide as the new method of providing information technology resources. Instead of purchasing or downloading software, we can now use the Internet to access software and other fundamental computing resources located on remote computer networks operated by third parties. These transactions offer companies lower operating costs, increased scalability and improved reliability, but also give rise to a host of international tax issues. Despite the rapid growth and prevalent use of cloud computing, U.S. taxation of international cloud computing transactions has yet to receive significant scholarly attention. This Article seeks to fill that void by analyzing the U.S. tax implications of operating in the cloud from a doctrinal and policy perspective. Such an analysis shows that the technological advances associated with the cloud put pressure on traditional U.S. federal income tax principles, which creates uncertainty, compliance burdens and liability risks for companies and a potential loss of revenue for the government. Applying the current law to cloud computing transactions also results in tax consequences that run counter to sound tax policy and may result in double taxation or complete non-taxation of cloud income. In light of these problems, federal attention is warranted to clarify how U.S. federal income tax principles apply to businesses operating in the cloud. Thus, this Article proposes that Treasury issue guidance that clearly addresses the U.S. tax implications of international cloud computing services and suggests that, ultimately, the United States must collaborate with other countries to achieve international consensus on these issues. Together these changes will ensure that the United States appropriately taxes the cloud and does so in a manner that minimizes double taxation and promotes efficiency, equity and administrative simplicity.
Author: Alexander Weisser Publisher: ISBN: 9782889540303 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Cloud computing may be borderless, but taxes are territorial. It is easy to imagine how the two concepts can clash. Much effort has gone into harmonizing tax rules across borders with the result that many jurisdictions have very similar tax rules. Even so, taxation remains a basic expression of national sovereignty. The goal of this thesis is to examine how international tax law applies to the cross-border cloud computing business. Both, multinational providers and customers of cloud computing services are analyzed. Reflecting three traditional areas of international tax scholarship, the goal could be stated in three questions. Which jurisdictions have the right to tax? What kinds of cloud computing transactions can be taxed? What amount of the profitt is taxable? In more technical terms, this means enquiring into how the use of cloud computing affects the permanent establishment status of taxpayers, how the different kinds of cloud computing transactions are characterized under international double taxation treaties, and how the calculation of taxable cloud computing profit is affected by transfer pricing. In light of the current political events, the thesis also offers recommendations de lege lata through a systematic approach. Its first part assesses the current taxation of cloud computing. The second part evaluates whether the findings of this initial assessment conform to various superior principles of good rulemaking. It identifies which of the present tax rules ought to be adapted. The final part considers how the rules could be amended to become more compliant with the superior principles. In this way, Part I embodies the thesis, Part II the antithesis, and Part III seeks a synthesis.
Author: David J. Shakow Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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“Cloud computing” raises important and difficult questions in state tax law, and for Federal taxes, particularly in the foreign tax area. As cloud computing solutions are adopted by businesses, items we view as tangible are transformed into digital products. In this article, I will describe the problems cloud computing poses for tax systems. I will show how current law is applied to cloud computing and will identify the difficulties current approaches face as they are applied to this developing technology. My primary interest is how Federal tax law applies to cloud computing, particularly as the new technology affects international transactions. I am not so interested in the current state of the law as I am in identifying the problems confronting tax administrators as technology creates a changed economic system. After identifying the problems, I will suggest that cloud computing (like other technological changes) is not always compatible with current rules for taxing activities in multiple jurisdictions. Therefore, tax fairness may require that new standards be used to allocate income among jurisdictions. But beyond that, I hope to explain some of the particulars of the cloud structure. In doing so, it will become apparent that the significance of cloud computing goes beyond the local and international tax areas that have been identified as problem areas in the past.
Author: Vasiliki Koukoulioti Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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The current tax laws are based heavily on concepts of physical geography, such as controlling premises and physical equipment or employing staff in the jurisdiction. The geographical concepts do not accommodate the cloud business model in any sensible way. As a consequence, the taxation of cloud providers is particularly complex and uncertain, as this paper will show, by examining the direct and inidirect tax treatment of cloud computing services. The law is clearly in urgent need of reform, and this is accepted by most states even if they do not agree how reform should be achieved. Residence-based taxation of digital enterprises is becoming increasingly difficult and artificial. Also, traditional source rules, particularly the permanent establishment rule, are based on the assumption that cross-border activities require a physical presence in the market jurisdiction; in the digital economy this is no longer true. The suggested policy solutions attempt to take account of online service users' contribution and hence allocate taxing rights to the jurisdictions where they are located (market jurisdictions). More fundamentally, every change to the rules of international tax law tends to increase the tax revenues of some states whilst correspondingly decreasing the tax revenues of others. In this context, cloud computing transactions will be inevitably impacted by the new international tax landscape.
Author: L. Fjord Kjærsgaard Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The author analyses the options available to user jurisdictions for taxing the value generated by cloud computing service providers. The focus is on the challenges of allocating the taxing right to payments for cloud computing provided as a service in the form of Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service and Software-as-a-Service, deployed as both public and private cloud computing. More specifically, the focus is on mixed contracts, the distinction between business income and royalties and whether the provision of such services constitute a permanent establishment. The analysis is primarily based on the OECD Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital, but some relevant derogations and national practices are also considered. Among other things, it is concluded that the user jurisdictions, pursuant to the current international tax regime, will, under certain circumstances, be precluded from taxing the income of foreign cloud computing service providers, as cloud computing service providers may be able to deliver their digital services from remote locations while structuring their business around potential withholding taxes. Against this background, value creation and the fundamental principles of legal certainty, neutrality and the ability to pay tax are discussed. Finally, it is recommended that policymakers assess the full effects of the changes made in the tenth update to the OECD Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital (21 November 2017) before introducing new measures.
Author: Aleksandra Bal Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 5
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This article explores tax challenges faced by providers of cloud-based services. First, the concept of cloud computing is explained. The following sections focus on key problem areas, i.e. the qualification of a server as a permanent establishment (PE), the outsourcing of bookkeeping functions, e-invoicing and the VAT treatment of services in the cloud. As legal problems cannot be assessed independently from a particular legal framework, the focus here is on EU and German law.
Author: Matthew Susson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 51
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Confronted with growing budget deficits and decreasing tax bases, states have sought to expand sales tax laws to capture revenue from sales of digital products. Just as states have begun to impose such taxes, however, the shift from downloaded products to cloud-based data and applications -- accessible from anywhere in the world -- poses new challenges to the states' ability to reach such transactions with their taxing powers.Thus far, state governments have taken inconsistent and patchwork approaches towards determining taxability. Rather than supplement or amend state tax codes to address cloud computing transactions directly, they have sought to apply existing provisions dealing with tangible personal property, services, or information processing. As a result of their piecemeal approaches, cloud service providers and their customers are left without definitive guidance as to their sales and use tax obligations, which may vary substantially state-to-state.If California wishes to stanch its revenue bleeding and budgetary problems, it must do more than simply repurpose existing state provisions ad hoc and shoehorn new business paradigms into old categories. California's ongoing transition to an information services economy requires a coordinated effort to effectively tax crucial revenue. California must amend its tax code to allow taxation of some services -- specifically digital services -- if it hopes to maintain a steady stream of sales tax revenue. It must, however, propound comprehensible guidelines if it wishes to incentivize innovation and provide certainty and stability to service providers and retail customers regarding their tax obligations. California should also work in concert with other states to commonly define goods and services and create a consistent national vocabulary, which would simplify the levying and collection of sales taxes on interstate transactions, and pave the way for unifying federal action.
Author: Alexander Weisser
Author: Alexander Weisser
Author: Orly Mazur
Author: Alexander Weisser
Author: David J. Shakow
Author: Gil Savir
Author: Vasiliki Koukoulioti
Author: Gil Savir
Author: L. Fjord Kjærsgaard
Author: Aleksandra Bal
Author: Matthew Susson