Comparing the General Anti-Avoidance Rule of Income Tax Law with the Civil Law Doctrine of Abuse of Law

Bulletin for International Taxation, April 2008

Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper No. 133/2017

21 Pages Posted: 22 Sep 2009 Last revised: 5 Oct 2017

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Zoë M. Prebble

Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law

John Prebble KC

Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law; Institut für Österreichisches und Internationales Steuerrecht, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien; University of Notre Dame Australia - School of Law

Date Written: October 14, 2008

Abstract

This paper is available in Japanese, translated by Professor Fumihiro Komamiya under the following name: この論文の日本語版は、次のURLで参照することができます http://ssrn.com/abstract=1479931

This article compares the general anti-avoidance rule of income tax law with the civil law doctrine of abuse of law (Rechtsmissbrauch, abus de droit) in eight jurisdictions: Germany, Croatia, New Zealand, Australia, France, the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union. The article deals with the core concept of avoidance and addresses the statutory and judge-made general anti-avoidance rules in these jurisdictions. The article focuses on transactions that most people would recognize as avoidance and on how these eight jurisdictions either frustrate avoidance or allow it.

Writers who contributed to the article and the jurisdictions that they covered include: Séverine Baranger (France, general anti-avoidance rule), Dennis Becher (Germany, abuse of law), Svenja Brandt (Germany, general anti-avoidance rule) David Dunbar (Australia), Matthew Fountain (New Zealand), Franca Frenzel (European Union), David Pickup (United Kingdom), Philip Postlewaite (United States), Rebecca Prebble (Croatia), Viktoria Preusker (Germany, abuse of law), Yves-Louis Sage (France, abuse of law).

Keywords: tax, general anti-avoidance rule, GAAR, avoidance, abus de droit, abuse of law, abuse of rights, substance, form

JEL Classification: K34

Suggested Citation

Prebble, Zoë M. and Prebble KC, John, Comparing the General Anti-Avoidance Rule of Income Tax Law with the Civil Law Doctrine of Abuse of Law (October 14, 2008). Bulletin for International Taxation, April 2008, Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper No. 133/2017, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1473612

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University of Notre Dame Australia - School of Law

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Australia

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