international comity taxation

Statement 2: International comity is an inherent limitation in taxation. 49 0 obj . The presumption in favor of a foreign plaintiffs choice of a U.S. forum is less strong. 27 0 obj 50 0 obj 2014) (To date, we have reserved prospective international comity abstention for rare (indeed often calamitous) cases in which powerful diplomatic interests of the United States and foreign sovereigns aligned in supporting dismissal.); see also Perforaciones Exploracin y Produccin v. Martimas Mexicanas, S.A. de C.V., 356 F. Appx 675, 681 (5th Cir. Close Childress, supra note 20, at 51. 13 As a recent commentator has observed, Hiltons definition of comity is woefully inadequate. Close Story, supra note 54, 30, at 36. Close Only a few international comity doctrines clearly constitute federal law binding on state courts, including foreign sovereign immunity, due process limitations on personal jurisdiction, and the act of state doctrine. 2015) (characterizing its holding as prudential exhaustion requirement based on international comity concerns). See 28 U.S.C. 401(b) (defining jurisdiction to adjudicate as jurisdiction to subject persons or things to the process of its courts or administrative tribunals). See, e.g., Republic of the Philippines v. Pimentel, 553 U.S. 851, 866 (2008) (Giving full effect to sovereign immunity promotes the comity interests that have contributed to the development of the immunity doctrine.); Dole Food Co. v. Patrickson, 538 U.S. 468, 479 (2003) (Foreign sovereign immunity . 756, 757 (C.C.D. 10 0 obj 31 0 obj and the Second Circuit holding that the only fact that matters is the State Departments determination of immunity. See, e.g., In re Microsoft Corp., No. Commercial convenience could explain why a foreign contract or judgment should be enforced, but it did not explain why a nation should restrict its prescriptive or adjudicative jurisdiction. 198, 201 (N.Y. 1918). Close Third, this Article uses its categorization of international comity doctrines to challenge two enduring myths about comity: (1) that comity must be governed by standards rather than rules; and (2) that comity determinations are best left to the executive branch. 67 It also shows how the rationale for comity shifted from private interests in convenience to public interests in respecting the sovereignty of other nations, a shift that has obscured the comity basis of some doctrines. 194 H 122 The scope of taxation is regarded as comprehensive, plenary, unlimited, and supreme.TRUE 7. See, e.g., Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws 188(1) (Am. The Supreme Court has held that a foreign government may not be recognized as a plaintiff in U.S. courts and simultaneously claim immunity from suit. 59 0 obj Close 147 477), BATAS: Mga kasambahay, dapat bigyan ng 13th month pay, G.R. Id. Oetjen v. Cent. 263 316 Close 121 One might characterize the act of state doctrine as one that rests in part on a basis other than comity. In 28 U.S.C. Parkcentrals holding may be limited to cases in which the defendants were not parties to the U.S. transactions. Morrison rejected such a mechanical approach and instructed lower courts to determine the focus of the statute, which (as in Morrison) may be a place other than where the regulated conduct occurs. 182 2009) (holding prudential exhaustion applies equally to cases brought against foreign states (and their instrumentalities) under the FSIA), vacated, 616 F.3d 1019 (9th Cir. Id. 228 AB, 773 F.2d 452, 458 (2d Cir. v. United States, 424 U.S. 800, 817 (1976); see also Lexmark Intl, Inc. v. Static Control Components, Inc., 134 S. Ct. 1377, 1386 (2014) (quoting Colorado River); Sprint Commcns, Inc. v. Jacobs, 134 S. Ct. 584, 591 (2013) (quoting Colorado River). 1987) (listing factors to determine if exercise of prescriptive jurisdiction is unreasonable); see also id. 25 But it is the recognition which one nation allows within its territory to the legislative, executive or judicial acts of another nation, having due regard both to international duty and convenience, and to the rights of its own citizens, or of other persons who are under the protection of its laws.); supra notes 2631 and accompanying text (discussing Hilton). + The word, "Atmanirbhar" is usually thought of as related to the concepts of self-reliance and self-sufficiency. . at 599 (quoting In re Maxwell Commc'n Corp. plc by Homan, 93 F.3d 1036, 1047 (2d Cir.1996)). Westlaw shows more than 470 quotations of this passage, or parts of it, by state and federal courts since Hilton. .Some authorities include double taxation. 288 108 Second, this Article explains the critical distinction between international law and international comity. Jurisdiction to prescribe is distinct from jurisdiction to adjudicate. 133 86 The modern presumption against extraterritoriality, for example, has two rationales: (1) [i]t serves to protect against unintended clashes between our laws and those of other nations which could result in international discord; International comity . at 278990 (plurality opinion) (Kennedy, J.) See Posner & Sunstein, supra note 33, at 117980 (considering only presumption against extraterritoriality, act of state doctrine, foreign sovereign immunity, and (mistakenly) Charming Betsy canon); supra notes 4648 and accompanying text (explaining why Charming Betsy is not truly an international comity doctrine). 356 276 Id. . <>stream H 362 146. art. Other doctrines of international comity expressly reject a reciprocity requirement. Frank Vibert provides an expert analysis on how this situation has arisen from a combination of changes in the relative power and position of nations and the different values behind the organisation of domestic . This aspect of the doctrine has perhaps obscured its foundation in comity. 303 Close See W.S. Court for S. Dist. 206 2. subject matter of the tax 6. place of exercise, business or occupation being taxed. Close Although it is generally omitted from scholarly discussions of international comity, Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature, based at the Allen Institute for AI. 2009) (While these bases have been characterized as exorbitant or extraordinary, they have, thus far, not been asserted, on authoritative grounds, to be violative of international law.); Clermont & Palmer, supra note 308, at 476 ([E]xorbitant jurisdiction is best understood less as an existing rule than as a normative statement about the appropriate scope of international jurisdiction.). 375 1605A(h)(6) (2012). Austen L. Parrish, Duplicative Foreign Litigation, 78 Geo. Although six Justices rejected the Bernstein exception in First Natl City Bank v. Banco Nacional de Cuba, 406 U.S. 759 (1972), they did so in three separate opinions, none of which commanded a majority of the Court. 313 note at 591 (Am. This is one of the international comity myths that Part IV will challenge. 164 ,.. 321), The aggravating circumstances of nighttime, G.R. 1, 2014) (noting only two grounds are treated as discretionary in practice). . 28 U.S.C. No. Close, Developments in the area of adjudicative jurisdiction mirrored those in the area of prescriptive jurisdiction as America moved from the nineteenth century to the twentieth. Hilton, 159 U.S. at 16364. 2 See Huber, supra note 74, at 168 (stating comity applies equally to the subject of res judicata); see also id. Close, The doctrine of foreign state immunity, codified in the FSIA, is also quite rule-like. 227 x+ | (W.W.L.) Close See Hilton v. Guyot, 159 U.S. 113, 163 (1895) (noting enforcement of judicial decree. at 117980 (discussing presumption against extraterritoriality, act of state doctrine, foreign sovereign immunity, and (mistakenly) Charming Betsy canon). Close Sitting heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers are entitled to status-based immunity from suits based on any actofficial or unofficialbut only while they hold those offices. Apr. v. U.S.), Judgment, 1959 I.C.J. In the area of sovereign party comity, the Supreme Court has adopted a rule that any government recognized by the United States, and not at war with it, may bring suit in U.S. courts, See 159 U.S. 113, 163 (1895) (noting enforcement of judicial decree. Close Close Id. Republic of Austria v. Altmann, 541 U.S. 677, 735 (2004) (Kennedy, J., dissenting). As former State Department Legal Adviser John Bellinger has noted, the same dynamic is likely to play itself out in the context of foreign official immunity, where the State Department currently claims unreviewable discretion to make case-by-case immunity determinations: I wonder whether, in a few years time, the Legal Advisers Office will be in that same situation again, seeking another kind of FOIAa Foreign Officials Immunities Actjust as 40 years ago it sought the FSIA to relieve the burden and political pressure of having to file statements of sovereign immunity in every case. 24 Close 19 Residence-based taxation 237, 260 (2010). State Laws 1962) [hereinafter 1962 Uniform Act]. [2] Taxation is a power legislative in nature. but that phrase could describe either comity to legislatures or comity by legislatures. xs The President of the Philippines can change tariff or imposts without necessity of calling Congress to . 31 at 77273 (Douglas, J., concurring) (rejecting Bernstein exception); id. See Sabbatino, 376 U.S. at 423 ([The act of state doctrine] expresses the strong sense of the Judicial Branch that. Prescriptive comity is comity to lawmakersoften legislatures, but sometimes courts or executive branch officials. See, e.g., In re French, 440 F.3d 145, 153 (4th Cir. See supra note 134 (explaining Justice Scalias approaches in Empagran and Hartford). 32 0 obj Huber, supra note 74, at 165. 91 See, e.g., Am. In The Schooner Exchange v. McFaddon, Chief Justice Marshall held that a French warship was immune from suit by its former owners to recover it. . It seems more likely that Mansfield, Kent, and Story correctly read Huber to allow discretion not to enforce foreign law. The same is largely true of foreign official immunity. No. Finally, the Court has recognized that federal courts may decline to hear a case where the relief being sought is equitable in nature or otherwise discretionary, like a declaratory judgment. Croudson v. Leonard, 8 U.S. (4 Cranch) 434, 437 (1808). Close. 48 0 obj Some foreign officials are immune from suit based on their status. 3493 Before the Subcomm. Whether or not rules of foreign sovereign immunity properly fell into the defeasible category, Marshalls opinion in The Schooner Exchange certainly treated them that way. Forum non conveniens, prudential exhaustion, international comity abstention, and the granting of antisuit injunctions all require a case-by-case weighing of factors and are reviewed on appeal for abuse of discretion. L. 223, 282 (2014) (summarizing choice-of-law methodologies). Justice demands we videotape all police interrogat G. R. No. (referring to international comity to limit interference with internal affairs of foreign-flag ship); Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692, 761 (2004) (Breyer, J., concurring in part and concurring in the judgment) (referring to notions of comity that lead each nation to respect the sovereign rights of other nations by limiting the reach of its laws and their enforcement). It has three goals: (1) to offer a better definition of international comity and a framework for analyzing its manifestations in American law; (2) to explain the relationship between international comity and international law; and (3) to challenge the myths that international comity doctrines must take the form of standards rather than rules and that international comity determinations should be left to the executive branch. 246 w3TPI2T0 BC#=C3\. 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