Executive & Specialist Programmes
International Taxation and Tax Treaties
A treaty signed decades ago still decides what your treasury may tax today, and most were written to favour the other side of the table. We teach officials to read that text for what it concedes, and to rewrite it.
Programme overview
A treaty signed decades ago still decides what your treasury may tax today, and most were written to favour the other side of the table. We teach officials to read that text for what it concedes, and to rewrite it.
Who should attend
Treaty negotiators, international tax units, ministries and committees that advise on or ratify treaties.
Programme modules
Module spine
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01
Auditing a treaty network for revenue leakage: which agreements to renegotiate, and in what order
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02
Where source states lose most: services, technical fees, capital gains and offshore indirect transfers
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03
Anti-abuse in practice: the principal purpose test, limitation of benefits and the Multilateral Instrument
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04
Pillar Two and the qualified domestic minimum top-up tax: what to enact, what to forgo and what it yields
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05
The United Nations Framework Convention: protocols, negotiating positions and the African agenda
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06
Capstone: a national treaty policy and a negotiating mandate defended across the table
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