Taxing Artificial Intelligence will be essential reading for scholars, policy makers and students across law and economics. It will also be invaluable for law and tax professionals seeking to understand the latest developments in AI, automation, and the future of work.

The increasing use of artificial intelligence within the workplace is likely to cause significant disruption to the labour market and in turn, to the economy, due to a reduction in the number of taxable workers. In this innovative book, Xavier Oberson proposes taxing robots as a possible solution to the anticipated problem of declining tax revenues.

"Switzerland has recently witnessed an unprecedented level of tax treaty negotiations. Although this is a direct result of Switzerland's revised position regarding exchange of information, a number of contracting states have taken this opportunity to modify tax treaty benefits and/or clarify certain aspects of tax treaty interpretation and application. These are considered extensively in this edition. As Switzerland has steadily aligned itself with international principles of international taxation, the self-imposed anti-abuse rules for the application of tax treaties have become less relevant. Nevertheless, Swiss courts have become more creative in determining where there is and where there is not treaty abuse. As a result, the 1962 Abuse Decree is making way for a more complex basket of anti-abuse rules and regulations"--Foreword (page vii).

In this thoroughly revised third edition of what has become the standard work on information exchange in tax matters, Xavier Oberson provides an authoritative overview of the instruments and models used to exchange information on an international level. Addressing the latest developments in the movement towards increased global transparency in tax matters, this updated edition also includes new rules of information exchanges and reporting on digital platforms, crypto assets and crypto currencies.

This book has the merit of being the first book analysing different aspects of data taxation from a wide perspective encompassing not only tax law but also other significant issues related to data, such as data protection and economic inefficiencies. The main aim is to provide data-specific solutions to data-driven problems. In the midst of a number of critical issues and a great deal of uncertainty currently reigning in the field, the authors attempt to put forward easy-to-implement and efficient proposals on the basis of an interdisciplinary analysis. The core idea of this book consists of segregating the utilisation of data into four different yet interdependent steps and constructing the tax law analysis on top of these four corner stones. Step one, occurring in the generation and collection phases of the data’s life cycle, comprises ‘the digital barter’ and other collection of data. Step two, taking place during the processing and analytics phases of the data’s life cycle, consists of microwork. Step three, situated in the storage, processing, analytics and use phases of the data’s life cycle, encompasses aggregation and internal use of data. Step four, materialising during the distribution and use phases of the data’s life cycle, covers sale of data, transfer of data and granting the right to use a database. The main issues occurring in each of the four steps are analysed separately, and yet interdependently, with an emphasis on international tax law. The book also comprises a VAT analysis; suggestion of a new type of tax, namely «data collection tax»; and a brief opinion on a potential future «robo-data tax». The subjects explored in this book are of interest for researchers, lawyers as well as tax administrations. Albeit being an academic publication, the developments made in this contribution are also relevant for the general public. After all, data, the youngest intangible, constitute the raw material of the fourth industrial revolution; and their use and taxation affect each and every citizen!

The financial crisis of 2008 and the emergence of various scandals around the world sparked a movement towards greater transparency with international exchange of information in tax matters. Fully revised and updated, this book considers the emergence of a new global standard, the automatic exchange of information. Providing a comprehensive overview of the main developments, it analyses the structure and content of the various existing instruments and models, taking into account the most up to date developments.

Two 'Cahiers de Droit Fiscal International' are published once a year and distributed free to all members of the Association (from 2000-2010 in book form and on CDRom). These 'Cahiers' contain a wealth of domestic and international material in dealing with the Main Subjects to be discussed at the following Congress. They comprise IFA Branch Reports together with a General Report on each of the two Subjects selected for the Congress of that year. IFA Branch Reports are published in English. The IFA Branch Reports are preceded by a Summary and Conclusions. General Reports are printed in English, and, if applicable, the original language. The 'Cahiers' are an invaluable source of information of lasting scientific value for any specialist interested in international or comparative fiscal law. IFA members in "good standing" (i.e. having no arrears in their annual membership fees) can access these publications free of charge via the secured section of the IFA website (www.ifa.nl).

La cinquième édition du Précis de droit fiscal international tient compte de l'ampleur des réformes intervenues ces dernières années, notamment depuis 2014. Cette période a vu le développement sans précédent de normes visant à lutter contre la double non-imposition, la concurrence fiscale dommageable, la planification fiscale agressive et l'utilisation d'instruments hybrides dans le cadre du programme BEPS qui a démarré en 2013 (programme ayant engendré de nombreuses modifications du droit fiscal international et du droit interne). Un instrument spécifique – l'instrument multilatéral – a par ailleurs été ratifié par plusieurs États, dont la Suisse, afin de permettre la mise en œuvre des règles du programme BEPS, qui modifient les conventions de double imposition, et a élargi le domaine de l'arbitrage international. En outre, l'assistance internationale en matière fiscale, depuis le fameux « big bang » de 2009, s'est étendue à l'échange automatique de renseignements financiers, à l'échange spontané sur les rulings fiscaux et à la remise de déclaration pays par pays. Enfin, la taxation des entreprises numériques a continué de faire l'objet de discussions et a débouché sur de nouvelles propositions en matière d'imposition des entreprises multinationales dans le cadre de ce que l'on appelle les piliers 1 et 2 de l'OCDE. Ce précis analyse tous ces développements et reproduit la structure classique de l'ouvrage en six parties, à savoir : (i) généralités ; (ii) règles unilatérales du droit fiscal international de la Suisse ; (iii) CDI conclues par la Suisse en matière d'impôts sur le revenu et la fortune ; (iv) les CDI en matière d'impôts sur les successions ; (v) aspects de procédure (y compris l'échange de renseignements) et (vi) les accords bilatéraux entre l'Union européenne et la Suisse. Une septième partie consacrée à la taxation des entreprises numériques et aux deux piliers de l'OCDE a été ajoutée.