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How Cross-National Tax Treaty Networks Enable Profit Shifting — Even Without Traditional Havens

跨国税收协定网络如何促成利润转移——即使不依赖传统避税港

Modern profit shifting increasingly exploits mismatches between treaty partners’ domestic definitions of permanent establishment and digital service taxation.
Treaty shopping—routing profits through jurisdictions with favorable bilateral agreements—requires no physical presence, only strategic incorporation.
Developing countries often sign treaties offering extensive relief without negotiating safeguards against base erosion or requiring minimum substance tests.
Multinationals use hybrid mismatch arrangements where payments qualify as deductible expenses in one jurisdiction but escape taxation elsewhere entirely.
OECD’s Pillar Two framework addresses rate gaps but struggles with treaty-based carve-outs that preserve preferential treatment for specific sectors.
Domestic anti-abuse rules remain unenforceable if treaties explicitly override them—a common clause in older agreements.
Revenue authorities lack mutual agreement procedure capacity to resolve disputes involving complex multi-jurisdictional value chains.
Digital services taxes emerged precisely because treaty networks proved inadequate for taxing intangible value creation remotely.
Treaty negotiations now include mandatory arbitration clauses, yet outcomes remain opaque and inaccessible to public scrutiny.
Profit attribution methodologies still rely on outdated arm’s-length principles ill-suited for integrated global platforms.
Systemic reform requires treaty modernization that embeds transparency obligations and dynamic adjustment triggers—not static bilateral concessions.
Tax sovereignty today depends less on unilateral legislation than on coordinated renegotiation of the entire treaty architecture.

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Profit attribution methodologies still rely on outdated arm’s-length principles ill-suited for integrated global platforms. 利润归属方法仍依赖过时的独立交易原则，难以适配高度整合的全球平台。
Treaty shopping—routing profits through jurisdictions with favorable bilateral agreements—requires no physical presence, only strategic incorporation. 税收协定滥用——通过拥有优惠双边协定的司法管辖区转移利润——无需实体存在，仅需战略性注册。
Domestic anti-abuse rules remain unenforceable if treaties explicitly override them—a common clause in older agreements. 若税收协定明文凌驾于国内反避税规则之上——此类条款在旧协定中十分常见——则国内反避税规则便无法执行。

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课文第一句的意思更接近？现代利润转移日益利用税收协定缔约国对常设机构及数字服务征税的国内定义差异。今天学校放假了。请把窗户打开。

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Profit attribution methodologies still rely on outdated arm’s-length principles ill-suited for integrated global platforms.

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Profit attribution methodologies still rely on outdated arm’s-length principles ill-suited for integrated global platforms.

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