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    The New Italian Tax Shield: Amnesty for Undeclared Offshore Assets

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    In this article the author analyses the new Italian Tax Shield (Scudo fiscale), which allows taxpayers to disclose financial activities and properties illegally held abroad and ignored by the tax administration, subject to payment of a forfait tax and without being subject to certain tax assessments and tax and corporate criminal charges. The author illustrates the operative aspects of the provisions and potential problems

    The shift in the burden of proof in regard to transfer pricing

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    In this note, the author discusses the development of the transfer pricing regime in Italy in the context of recent legislative and case law developments that, inter alia, clarify that the initial burden of proof in this area is on the tax authorities

    Brevi note sull'applicazione del principio di specialità nei rapporti tra «frodi carosello» e reati comuni

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    Con il presente contributo si intende analizzare il vivace dibattito giurisprudenziale che si è formato in merito ai rapporti tra delitti tributari ex d.lgs. n. 74 del 2000 e le fattispecie codicistiche di truffa, in relazione ai quali si sono affermati contrapposti orientamenti circa la configurabilità o meno del concorso di reati. Spesso i giudici si sono divisi in merito alla repressione penale delle c.d. frodi carosello, le quali, non essendo riconducibili sotto una specifica figura delittuosa, necessitano da tempo di un orientamento nomofilattico. Su tale contrasto giurisprudenziale è stata recentemente fatta chiarezza dalle sezioni unite penali della Corte di Cassazione che, con la sentenza n. 1235 del 19 gennaio 2011, hanno escluso la configurabilità del concorso fra i delitti di dichiarazione fraudolenta mediante uso di fatture o altri documenti per operazioni inesistenti (art. 2, d.lgs. n. 74 del 2000) e di emissione di fatture false o altri documenti per operazioni inesistenti (art. 8, d.lgs. n. 74 del 2000) con quello di truffa aggravata a danno dello Stato (art. 640, 1o comma, n. 1), c.p.). Secondo il Supremo Collegio, anche alla luce della linea di politica criminale a cui il d.lgs. n. 74 del 2000 è ispirato, i delitti tributari costituirebbero fattispecie criminose «speciali» rispetto alla truffa aggravata, andando a formare un «sistema chiuso ed autosufficiente», in grado di reprimere autonomamente ed in maniera efficace le condotte che ledono gli interessi erariali. Tale soluzione, sicuramente condivisibile e da tempo auspicata in dottrina anche per il rispetto del ne bis in idem sostanziale, è tuttavia frutto di un percorso logico-argomentativo contraddittorio e che lascia irrisolte alcune questioni

    La cooperazione fiscale internazionale. Contributo allo studio dell’equilibrio fra contrasto all’evasione fiscale internazionale e tutela dei diritti del contribuente

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    This doctoral research analyses the delicate balance between the State’s interest to assess and recover unpaid taxes and taxpayers’ rights protection, which is increasingly jeopardised in cross-border co-operation procedures. When assessing and collecting taxes, States are often dealing with transnational situations, which have became extremely common in the present globalised economy. In this respect, taxpayers resort to ingenious tax planning schemes aimed at obtaining substantial reductions of the tax burden normally due to the tax office, making a great use of so-called tax havens. States traditionally has been very suspicious towards international tax co-operation, since the “taxing power” (together with the “punitive power”) has always been considered one of the main expressions of national sovereignty, which would be inevitably limited or reduced in case of co-operation in assessing or collecting foreign tax claims. This approach (also known as the revenue rule) is deeply rooted in anglo-saxon common law and was considered justified by the public nature of tax provisions and by their effectiveness only within the national territorial borders, but today its validity is constantly dismissed by certain recent developments and by a new “co-operative” trend in case-law. The research analyses the developments of international tax co-operation in light of the exchange of information and mutual assistance in the recovery of taxes, which represent two faces of the same coin. The “hard-core” of the investigation is the attempt to read the present global scenario of international tax co-operation with the specific aim of identifying tax duties as universal values, worthy of legal enforcement also outside of the territorial borders of the taxing State. At the same time, the research deals with the controversial practice of acquiring tax information abroad e.g. the recent Liechtenstein, UBS and HSBC cases, which is an extreme attempt to tackle tax evasion by acquiring data stolen from foreign-based bank accounts
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