Issues Presented by Proposals to Modify the Tax Treatment of Expatriation: A ReportU.S. Government Printing Office, 1995 - Expatriation |
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Page 85 - ... international custom, as evidence of a general practice accepted as law; c. the general principles of law recognized by civilized nations ; d. subject to the provisions of Article 59, judicial decisions and the teachings of the most highly qualified publicists of the various nations, as subsidiary...
Page 57 - Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ; and whereas in the recognition of this principle this government has freely received emigrants from all nations and invested them with the rights of citizenship...
Page 86 - Article 2 1. Everyone lawfully within the territory of a State shall, within that territory, have the right to liberty of movement and freedom to choose his residence. 2. Everyone shall be free to leave any country, including his own.
Page 85 - The taxable year in which the property is placed in a condition or state of readiness and availability for a specifically assigned function...
Page 77 - As regards the application of the Convention at any time by a Contracting State, any term not defined therein shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meaning...
Page 77 - State. 2. As regards the application of the Convention by a Contracting State any term not defined therein shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meaning which it has under the law of that State concerning the taxes to which the Convention applies. Article 4 RESIDENT 1. For the purposes of this Convention, the term "resident of a Contracting State...
Page 30 - Is a national; or (ii) solely to develop and direct the operations of an enterprise in which he has invested, or of an enterprise In which he is actively In the process of investing, a substantial amount of capital...
Page 67 - Here we have the essential matter: not a gain accruing to capital, not a growth or increment of value in the investment; but a gain, a profit, something of exchangeable value proceeding from the property, severed from the capital however invested or employed, and coming in, being 'derived...
Page 62 - States and one of whom has had a residence in the United States or one of its outlying possessions, prior to the birth of such person; (d) a person born outside of the United States...
Page 57 - SEC. 403. (a) Except as provided in subsections (g) and (h) of section 401, no national can expatriate himself, or be expatriated, under this section while within the United States or any of its outlying possessions, but expatriation shall result from the performance within the United States or any of its outlying possessions of any of the acts or the fulfillment of any of the conditions specified in this section if and when the national thereafter takes up a residence abroad.