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Tax treaty briefing for August 2015

Allan Cinnamon (Cintax the Word Ltd) provides your monthly update.
 

Anson: the treaty aspects

 
By now it is well known that the Supreme Court in Anson v HMRC [2015] UKSC 44 (reported in Tax Journal 7 July 2015) has ruled that the profits of a US LLC accrued to its members as they arose reversing HMRC’s assertion that the LLC was opaque.
 
Having established that there remained the question of whether Mr Anson as a UK resident member of the LLC was entitled to double tax relief for the US tax that he had paid on his share of the LLC’s profits. Article 23.2(a) of the 1975 treaty provided for relief from the US federal tax specified in...

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