台灣租稅協定之探討

The motivation to conduct this research is actually assessing tax treaty applying cases is part of my work and that intrigue me to make a research on this subject. We present our research on the information excerpted from practical tax treaty applying cases of Taipei National Tax Administration in year 2003 and 2004, therefore, the outcome of this study somehow represents some meanings.

We first introduce the concepts of international tax treaty, then we bring in two models of tax treaty, namely UN Model tax Convention and OECD Model Tax Convention. Also, the ROC’s tax treaties is introducing right afterward. For conducting this study, we first established research questions based on economic rationales to observe the current situation over these 2 years. Descriptive Statistic is employed as our study method. Hence, we carry out our analysis by using the practical cases that we believe this research would present much meaningful for our study. Other than 4 main observations, some interesting phenomena were found and discussed. At last, we attached the Taiwan/ Singapore tax treaty as our appendix for readers to know that how tax treaty working from corporation and from tax authorities aspects.

However, while conducting this research, we try to put the transfer pricing issue aside. Because transfer pricing, itself, is a considerable, controversial topic which can generate tremendous discussions and papers. Besides, adding transfer pricing in our study may somehow indistinct our main subject. Therefore, we will not discuss transfer pricing here.

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