international comity taxation

Definition. 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). Each of the international comity doctrines may be placed in one of the resulting boxes. As the Second Circuit has observed, principles of comity counsel that injunctions restraining foreign litigation be used sparingly and granted only with care and great restraint. . But see First Natl City Bank v. Banco Nacional de Cuba, 406 U.S. 759, 765 (1972) (plurality opinion) (Rehnquist, J.) For Story, there was no separate category called the comity of courts. All comity was the comity of nations, and all of it was exercised by courts. Many are designed to mitigate the possibility of parallel proceedings, which the Supreme Courts expansion of personal jurisdiction in International Shoe made more likely. Id. Id. . endobj 283, 353 (1822) (characterizing foreign sovereign immunity as resting on principles of public comity and convenience). This Articles definition of international comity is based on a reading of all the U.S. Supreme Court cases that use the word comity Statement 2: International comity is an inherent limitation in taxation. 394 See infra section II.A (describing prescriptive comity). 23, at 30. In deciding conflicts cases today, U.S. courts rarely invoke comity directly. Close Close 121, 123 (N.Y. 1926) (concluding state court is not bound to follow the Hilton Case). See, e.g., United States v. Sisal Sales Corp., 274 U.S. 268, 276 (1927) (applying U.S. antitrust law to contract, combination and conspiracy intended to restrain trade in those articles and to increase the market price within the United States); United States v. Aluminum Co. of Am., 148 F.2d 416, 444 (2d Cir. 434 U.S. 308, 320 (1978). xs . All kinds of hybrid combinations are possible.). or elusive. 200 See, e.g., Allied Bank Intl v. Banco Credito Agricola de Cartago, 757 F.2d 516, 519 (2d Cir. 87 but they come down firmly on the side of case-specific deference to the executive branch. 2011) (en banc) (plurality opinion) (McKeown, J.) 1987) (concluding factors favoring antisuit injunction are not sufficient to overcome the restraint and caution required by international comity). B. I and II only. Close 290 (Collector v. Goodrich International (b) In case of property held in trust . But see Joel R. Paul, The Transformation of International Comity, Law & Contemp. 2005 Uniform Act, supra note 106; 1962 Uniform Act, supra note 106. . 9 0 obj <>>>/BBox[0 0 377.76 588]/Length 47>>stream Close 69 . Still, the principles of recognition and restraint seem useful for grouping the international comity doctrines within each category. 1812) (No. The Santissima Trinidad, 20 U.S. (7 Wheat.) 193 163 1, intro. Close, Despite American Banana, U.S. courts soon began to apply U.S. antitrust law extraterritorially on the basis of effects. 1987) (stating recognition and enforcement of foreign country judgments is a matter of State law). 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. 172 Close 83), Bar exam flops = failure of law profs? See Hilton v. Guyot, 159 U.S. 113, 16364 (1895) (Comity, in the legal sense, is neither a matter of absolute obligation, on the one hand, nor of mere courtesy and good will, upon the other. . (quoting Verlinden, 461 U.S. at 486)). See 28 U.S.C. H 24 0 obj Is compulsory sterilization of criminals legal? Empagrans presumption against unreasonable interference also has a standard-like quality, although the Court applied it in that case to generate clear rules about the applicability of the Sherman Act and expressly rejected case-by-case balancing. For further discussion, see infra notes 228258 and accompanying text (discussing adjudicative comity as principle of restraint). 388 77 118 As a principle of recognition, prescriptive comity operates in American law today through state-law rules on the conflict of laws, the federal act of state doctrine, and the practice of some courts to recognize extraterritorial acts of state on the basis of comity. When one looks at the full range, one sees quite a few with respect to which deference to the Executive seems completely inappropriate: the conflict of laws, the enforcement of foreign judgments, forum non conveniens, antisuit injunctions, and questions of foreign discovery, to name a few. endstream 106 I, ch. 62 Samantar v. Yousuf, 130 S. Ct. 2278 (2010); see, e.g., Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae Supporting Appellees at 10, Yousuf v. Samantar, 699 F.3d 763 (4th Cir. International comity in taxation; reasons A practice of showing courtesy among nations. Does it operate as a principle of recognition to recognize foreign law, foreign courts, and foreign sovereigns as litigants? 25, at 31. to violate the law of the foreign country in which such workplace is located. to treat a foreign act of state as valid, <>>>/BBox[0 0 377.76 588]/Length 46>>stream Rep. Congo v. . 299 Close at 599 (quoting In re Maxwell Commc'n Corp. plc by Homan, 93 F.3d 1036, 1047 (2d Cir.1996)). Eric Posner and Cass Sunstein consider only the presumption against extraterritoriality, the act of state doctrine, foreign sovereign immunity, and the Charming Betsy canon (which is not really a comity doctrine, see infra notes 4648 and accompanying text), though they briefly allude to other doctrines without explaining them. 43 but there were important differences between Hubers first two maxims and his third. 212 Close. (International Comity. is exercised by legislatures when they enact laws, and courts assume it has been exercised when they come to interpreting the scope of laws their legislatures have enacted.); Story, supra note 54, 38, at 42 (In the silence of any positive rule, affirming, or denying, or restraining the operation of foreign laws, courts of justice presume the tacit adoption of them by their own government, unless they are repugnant to its policy, or prejudicial to its interests.). Tax laws cannot apply to properties of foreign governments (international comity). 1841) (1834) (quoting Saul v. His Creditors, 5 Mart. Close The author believes double taxation is properly a constitutional limitation. State Laws 1962) [hereinafter 1962 Uniform Act]. . Nature of Taxation Power? xS**T0T0 Bih]" W Which would justify the objection of the banks? 372 Close 22 (1992). 1685 (1976); Pierre Schlag, Rules and Standards, 33 UCLA L. Rev. the Supreme Court has articulated comity-based rules to determine when foreign governments may bring suit as plaintiffs in U.S. courts, and Congress has adopted comity-based rules to determine when sovereign immunity shields them from suit as defendants. H Why, for example, has reciprocity been urged as a requirement for some of the comity doctrines but not for others? 2 . 16041607 (2012) (providing foreign state immunity from suit subject to specific exceptions). 93 States in the United States have adopted a variety of methodologies for choosing the law to apply in a case that touches more than one jurisdiction. Law & Governmental Relations of the H. Comm. 98 474, 477504 (2006) (discussing bases of personal jurisdiction considered exorbitant). 2014) (We also review the district courts decision to dismiss based on international comity for abuse of discretion.); Sarei v. Rio Tinto, PLC, 671 F.3d 736, 755 (9th Cir. The relationship between international comity and international law is often misunderstood. Cf. at 1177 (Our argument also implies greater deference to the executive when it intervenes in private litigation.); id. 86 165 Third, international comity is not international law, though the uses of international comity have changed in relation to changes in international law. 42 U.S.C. See WestlawNext, http://westlawnext.com (last visited Sept. 25, 2015) (in All State & Federal, search: (comity /s absolute obligation) (recognition /s within its territory /s acts of another nation) (due regard /s international duty /s rights of its own citizens) and Hilton). Close Even in this area, one encounters the occasional rule, such as the presumptive limitation of general jurisdiction over corporations to the place of incorporation and principal place of business. Daimler AG v. Bauman, 134 S. Ct. 746, 760 (2014). Rules may also have advantages with respect to comitys other purpose of promoting commercial convenience. 373 Tectonics Corp., Intl, 493 U.S. 400, 409 (1990) (The act of state doctrine. Rep. 499; Lofft. Federal courts also exercise adjudicative comity as a principle of recognition when they assist foreign courts with the discovery of evidence in the United States. Occasionally, conduct prohibited by U.S. law may be required by foreign law, in which case compliance with U.S. law may be excused under the doctrine of foreign state compulsion. 11 (The Congress shall have power. v. Century Intl Arms, Inc., 466 F.3d 88, 95 (2d Cir. 264 78j (2012), which prohibits fraud in connection with the purchase or sale of a security. 291 Law Inst. endstream In a sense, all of these doctrines defer to the executive branch. See Pfizer, Inc. v. Govt of India, 434 U.S. 308, 31920 (1978) (It has long been established that only governments recognized by the United States and at peace with us are entitled to access to our courts, and that it is within the exclusive power of the Executive Branch to determine which nations are entitled to sue.); Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabbatino, 376 U.S. 398, 409 (1964) (noting privilege of bringing suit had been denied only to governments at war with the United States. Close, 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. Furthermore, prescriptive comity is exercised by courts. 376 96 170 International comity - the property of a foreign state or government may not be taxed by another. 11 368 (manuscript at 12). S Paramedics Electromedicina Comercial, Ltda. endobj This problem has assumed great importance recently, especially since the war, due in the first instance to the fact that in every country taxation . Close Id. 204 noun In international law, that courtesy between states or nations by which the laws and institutions of the one are recognized, and in certain cases and under certain limitations given effect to, by the government of the other, within its territory. Austen L. Parrish, Duplicative Foreign Litigation, 78 Geo. Slaughter and May London, England Andrew R. Walker, Esq. 160 (n.s.) 11 0 obj See supra notes 198203 and accompanying text (discussing foreign state compulsion). Sec. But this separation of powers rationale ultimately rests on comity, for it reflects the strong sense of the Judicial Branch that its engagement in the task of passing on the validity of foreign acts of state may hinder rather than further this countrys pursuit of goals both for itself and for the community of nations as a whole in the international sphere. and (2) it reflects the assumption that Congress is primarily concerned with domestic conditions. Yousuf, 699 F.3d at 773. 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. Indeed, one of the principal reasons for the FSIA was to shift determinations of foreign state immunity from the executive branch to the courts. Some of the doctrines included in the matrix above may not be recognized immediately as manifestations of international comity. What changes is the time at which that question is askedbefore a suit is filed in foreign court, while it is pending, or after the foreign court has rendered judgment. 192 6 (2) that no state or nation can, by its laws, directly affect or bind property out of its own territory, or bind persons not resident therein; 81 Each directs the court to determine particular relevant facts. Under the doctrine of head-of-state immunity, immunity from suit follows automatically from the executive branchs recognition of a particular person as a foreign head of state, head of government, or foreign minister. This approach reflects the supposition that courts using the term have the sense, however inchoate, that a common principle lies behind certain doctrines. endstream 3 1782 (2012), U.S. courts may recognize foreign proceedings by providing judicial assistance with discovery, but courts will exercise restraint when discovery might in fact hinder the foreign proceeding. Close is not meant to avoid chilling foreign states or their instrumentalities in the conduct of their business but to give foreign states and their instrumentalities some protection from the inconvenience of suit as a gesture of comity between the United States and other sovereigns.); The Santissima Trinidad, 20 U.S. (7 Wheat.) endstream 29 The power of taxation in the Philippines Constitution are grants of power and no limitations on taxing power. 49 The Belgenland, 114 U.S. 355, 363 (1885). A strong case can be made that the Presidents recognition should also control a foreign states entitlement to immunity under the FSIA. 206 endobj The doctrine of forum non conveniens, for example, takes the form of a standard rather than a rule, but it is also binding on district courts. 247 Close 237 Close The doctrine provides that American courts will not question the validity of a foreign act of state fully performed within the states own territory. See Ritchie v. McMullen, 159 U.S. 235, 242 (1895) (By the law of England, prevailing in Canada, a judgment rendered by an American court under like circumstances would be allowed full and conclusive effect.). Speaking only of acts, this definition leaves out foreign sovereign immunity and a foreign states privilege of bringing suit in U.S. courts, both of which the Supreme Court had recognized as manifestations of international comity well before Hilton was decided. Close 1605A(h)(6) (2012). Close x+ | Lower courts are divided on whether 1782 may be used for discovery in international arbitrations. See id. They also refer to a strain of thinking about the act of state doctrine. 141 22. 202 Close Close Similarly, Joseph Beale observed that [t]he doctrine seems really to mean only that in certain cases the sovereign is not prevented by any principle of international law, but only by his own choice, from establishing any rule he pleases for the conflict of laws. 164 endobj 2012) (No. 258 Kirkpatrick & Co. v. Envtl. Close 233 162 239 This exception is a direct descendant of Hubers third maxim that a government should enforce foreign laws so far as they do not cause prejudice to the power or rights of such government or of its subjects. 115(1)(b) (That a rule of international law or a provision of an international agreement is superseded as domestic law does not relieve the United States of its international obligation or of the consequences of a violation of that obligation.). Close. . b. x+ | See N. Jansen Calamita, Rethinking Comity: Towards a Coherent Treatment of International Parallel Proceedings, 27 U. Pa. J. Intl Econ. Compare Paul, Comity in International Law, supra note 17, at 20 (Storys intention in formalizing the doctrine was to enshrine comity as a mediating principle between free and slave states and thereby save the republic.), with Watson, supra note 89, at 40 (finding no evidence slavery was in the forefront of Storys mind on this matter). . 183 * Martin Luther King, Jr. 1971) (rejecting reciprocity requirement for conflict of laws). 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. For a recent discussion of domestic comity doctrines, see Gil Seinfeld, Reflections on Comity in the Law of American Federalism, 90 Notre Dame L. Rev. 270 They frequently refer to it as vague Whether CCI should abstain from exercising its jurisdiction to maintain comity between decisions of different authorities on the same issues? 10 Taxation Reviewer - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or view presentation slides online. 264, 404 (1821) (Marshall, C.J.) First, it bolstered the use of comity as a principle of restraint. 128 18 108 See, e.g., Curtis A. Bradley & Laurence R. Helfer, International Law and the U.S. Common Law of Foreign Official Immunity, 2010 Sup. 1, eff. If only the first statement is correct. but no customary international law rule prohibiting the exercise of such jurisdictional bases has emerged. 6 0 obj See William S. Dodge, After Sosa: The Future of Customary International Law in the United States, 17 Willamette J. Intl L. & Disp. Both doctrines defer to foreign lawmakers by recognizing their authority to prescribe rules to govern a case before a U.S. court. See id. Two assertions about international comity stand out: (1) that comity must be governed by standards rather than rules; and (2) that comity determinations are best left to the executive branch. Close 06-10061-MLW, 2006 WL 1344091, at *4 (D. Mass. (internal citation omitted). 48 143 endobj International law requires some immunities, . . Resol. Hilton is also fundamentally ambiguous about whether comity binds U.S. courts and, if so, whether it binds them as a matter of international or domestic law. Close. Project-based employee v. Regular employee. Courts may be more concerned with achieving fairness in cases that involve private parties. Hilton articulated clear rules for the enforcement of foreign judgments in the United States: [W]here there has been opportunity for a full and fair trial abroad before a court of competent jurisdiction, conducting the trial upon regular proceedings, after due citation or voluntary appearance of the defendant, and under a system of jurisprudence likely to secure an impartial administration of justice between the citizens of its own country and those of other countries, and there is nothing to show either prejudice in the court, or in the system of laws under which it was sitting, or fraud in procuring the judgment, or any other special reason why the comity of this nation should not allow it full effect, the merits of the case should not, in an action brought in this country upon the judgment, be tried afresh. 350 59 113 376 See id. w3TPI2T0 BC#=3\. H , reasoning that application of U.S. law to foreign conduct would be an interference with the authority of another sovereign, contrary to the comity of nations, which the other state concerned justly might resent.. arises out of the basic relationships between branches of government in a system of separation of powers.); see also Kirkpatrick, 493 U.S. at 404 (noting evolution in jurisprudential foundation for the act of state doctrine from comity to separation of powers). Brunda Karanam / September 27, 2017 September 21, 2017 / Leave a comment. 2023-01-18T11:42:22-08:00 Strikingly, the convenience rationale was adapted even to the seemly public doctrine of foreign sovereign immunity, which, the Court noted, stands upon principles of public comity and convenience. xs See supra note 134 (explaining Justice Scalias approaches in Empagran and Hartford). See Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Nat. 2008-01-15T10:41Z . UUsL}b%t Close or the comity of courts. If that recognition occurs as a matter of comity, as has traditionally been the case with the conflict of laws in the United States, it may properly be deemed an exercise of prescriptive comity., Some writers have preferred legislative comity, 151.615. 240 endobj at 256 (stating foreign plaintiffs choice deserves less deference). <>>>/BBox[0 0 377.76 588]/Length 47>>stream w3TPI2T0 BC#=C3\. and (3) that whatever force and obligation the laws of one country have in another, depend solely upon the laws and municipal regulations of the latter; that is to say, upon its own proper jurisprudence and polity, and upon its own express or tacit consent. Close, It is worth noting that the boundaries between international law and international comity may shift over time. Close The request for discovery may be made by the tribunal itself or by any interested person. Id. See Socit Nationale Industrielle Arospatiale v. U.S. Dist. (W.W.L.) ([T]he doctrine of immunity for foreign sovereigns[] has its roots, not in the Constitution, but in the notion of comity between independent sovereigns.); see also Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital, Ltd., 134 S. Ct. 2250, 2255 (2014) (Foreign sovereign immunity is and always has been, a matter of grace and comity . All the international comity doctrines discussed in this Article are exercised by courts. 4 Priv. 31 0 obj See, e.g., Regulation No. 1971) (The rules in the Restatement of this Subject apply to cases with elements in one or more States of the United States and are generally applicable to cases with elements in one or more foreign nations.). In Oetjen v. Central Leather Co., the Supreme Court said that the act of state doctrine rests upon the highest considerations of international comity and expediency and that to question the validity of a foreign act of state would very certainly imperil the amicable relations between governments and vex the peace of nations. Kirkpatrick & Co. v. Envtl. 258 Intl L.J. 369 141), Service incentive leave; conversion to cash, G.R. Close Although Empagran adopted Justice Scalias notion of prescriptive comity, its approach was quite different from his Hartford dissent. 14 Asia Brewery v. CA (Case Digest. See Restatement (Third) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States 441 (restating doctrine of foreign state compulsion); see also Anthony J. Colangelo, Absolute Conflicts of Law, 91 Ind. Close 416 2009) (noting possibility of abstention when there is litigation pending in a foreign forum or, even absent such litigation, but finding abstention inappropriate in that case). Close Law Inst. Croudson v. Leonard, 8 U.S. (4 Cranch) 434, 437 (1808) ([P]ublic convenience seems to require that a question, which has once been fairly decided, should not be again litigated between the same parties. 356 International comity is one of the principal foundations of U.S. foreign relations law. But the distinction should not be overstated. . 121 Close Also, the Court determined that there were comity considerations, such as that the IRS and Mr. Smith were not the only stakeholders in the case, but also the Australian tax authorities, which did not tax Mr. Smith on the basis that such income was supposed to be taxed in the . x+ | at 146. 21, 3438 (2009) (arguing President is constitutionally bound to obey international law under Take Care Clause). Justice Story, also on circuit, wrote that Hubers doctrine has become incorporated into the code of national law in all civilized countries. 1997) ([T]o the extent that comity is informed by general principles of reasonableness, see Restatement (Third) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States 403, the indictment lodged against NPI is well within the pale.); In re Maxwell Commcn Corp., 93 F.3d 1036, 104653 (2d Cir. 357 , so long as its refusal to give it effect is not arbitrary according to the rules of the conflict of laws of states that have reasonably developed legal systems.). a (Am. 20 37 should be recognized by the courts only if they are consistent with the law and policy of the United States.). 2009) (applying Colorado River abstention to foreign proceedings); Royal & Sun All. First, it offers a clearer and more comprehensive definition of comity than Hilton v. Guyot, as well as a framework for analyzing international comity doctrines. John B. 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