Tax Incentives For Exports

This book examines a critical variable that is used as an incentive to manufacturers to stimulate exports of U.S. goods and services. It also examines the effects of the U.S. federal income tax deferral incentive on the investment behavior of U.S. manufacturing firms.

This book is designed as a guide to tax shelters planned to increase U.S. exports. The author covers the Western Hemisphere Trade Corporation and the Domestic International Sales Corporation and compares the two. Relevant portions of the IRC and federal tax regulations, and a selection of the relevant cases as at October 3, 1974 are appended.

...discusses the rules pertaining to interest-charge domestic international sales corporations (IC DISCs), which currently constitute one of the two remaining export tax incentives under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. The Portfolio also discusses the rules pertaining to foreign derived intangible income (FDII), which is the other export tax incentive under the Code. The IC DISC rules are a continuation of the DISC rules, which were originally enacted in 1971, significantly revised in 1984, and remain in the wake of the enactment and repeal of two other export tax regimes, the foreign sales corporation (FSC) rules and the extraterritorial income (ETI) rules. The FSC and ETI rules continue to influence the DISC regime. The FDII rules have a much shorter history, having been enacted in 2017.

... examines the history of export tax incentives under the Internal Revenue Code and then discusses the rules pertaining to interest-charge domestic international sales corporations (IC DISCs), which currently constitute the only export tax incentive under the Code. The IC DISC rules are a remnant from the DISC rules, which were originally enacted by the Revenue Act of 1971 and then significantly revised by the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984.

International Trade Subsidy Rules and Tax and Financial Export Incentives is an inquiry into the interrelations between international trade subsidy rules and the use of tax and financial export incentives by developing countries. Its central claim is that developing countries should be allowed to adopt - based on their right to development - certain such incentives without violating the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules concerning subsidies. It advances the idea that the right to development of developing and least-developed countries (LDCs) entitles them to use tax and financial export incentives vis--vis comparatively more developed nations. However, in order to actualize this right, the existing WTO regulations must go through a process of revision. This process should craft an exception, available exclusively to developing countries and LDCs, allowing them to apply fiscal and financial export incentives against countries with a higher level of development, without being accused of granting prohibited subsidies. As a result of this policy reform, the WTO itself would incorporate development and fair/just trade concerns into its regulatory framework, providing an exceptional treatment for a patently exceptional situation. In doing so, the WTO would be contributing to a more equal international trade scene and a more developed and freer world.