4906585: International Taxation: Enterprises, Structures and Individuals

Qualifications

• • Know the basics of national and international busines taxation, group taxation, international tax planning together with companies, wealth structures and financial instruments, as well as European tax law
  • Understand connections between various business taxation models and the tax planning instruments in Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Switzerland
  • Calculate the tax burdens of companies in accordance with the respective national tax law, while also considering double taxation agreements
  • Analyse the fields of application and the boundaries of particular tax planning strategies
  • Solve cross-border cases based on a schema
  • Evaluate various tax planning strategies and their effects on the tax burdens
• • Know the sources of national and international tax law of the four German-speaking countries, are capable of reproducing the central concepts of national and international tax law in adequate terminology
  • Understand the connections between the particular tax legislation and the double taxation agreements
  • Apply the rules of the respective national and international tax law in case studies
  • Derive solutions and decision recommendations from the different laws; compare rulings of the different national tax laws
  • Solve cross-border issues, actively applying relevant legal provisions of the respective national tax law, as well as rulings in the double taxation agreements
  • Evaluate the calculated tax burdens
• • Listen attentively to the letures and internalise points made by their fellow students.
  • Work on the solutions of case studies, present and discuss the solutions worked out together, cooperate with the other students in the group
  • Assess the other solutions presented, evaluate them in relation to their own solution, evaluate specific laws regarding their effect on the taxation in certain circumstances
  • Stand up for and defend their own solutions in the light of remarks and critics
• • Not a focus in this module