Tax Arbitrage through Cross-Border Financial Engineering

Tax Arbitrage through Cross-Border Financial Engineering is a comprehensive exploration of tax arbitrage opportunities ensuing from financial engineering techniques with cross-border financial instruments. You’ll discover how to enhance your practice by making use of complex types of arrangements such as hybrids, synthetics, and non-traditional financial instruments, which are able to meet the criteria for favorable tax treatment in multiple jurisdictions.

Enhance your understanding, as the author brings clarity to the beguiling debate on economic substance versus legal form; examining the role of the expected-return taxation theory and proposes an objective benchmark for the taxation of financial instruments to achieve greater international tax neutrality, ultimately promoting global wealth. You’ll benefit from practical guidance to the legislative options available in a number of countries - including Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Luxembourg, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States.