The concept of aggressive tax planning and the new international tax standards of BEPS Project

Authors

  • Caio Augusto Takano

Keywords:

International taxation, aggressive tax planning, BEPS project, tax avoidance

Abstract

The definition of normative limits to international tax planning has long offered endless difficulty to the legal community. From the standpoint of international law, there is no clear line to define whether transactions or structures are lawful or illegal themselves. As a consequence of the new standards of international taxation in the BEPS Project, fluid notions of morality and justice were introduced in the debate regarding the limits to international tax planning structures, resulting in greater complexity and legal uncertainty. In this context, this paper aims to define the concept of “aggressiveness” as a possible predicative for the qualification of tax planning structures, questioning whether such concept is compatible with Brazilian legal system and, from an eminently legal perspective, whether such a tax planning category should be tackled.

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Published

2022-01-08

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Takano, C. A. (2022). The concept of aggressive tax planning and the new international tax standards of BEPS Project. RDTI Atual, (2), 42–64. Retrieved from https://revista.ibdt.org.br/index.php/RDTIAtual/article/view/1819

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