JCS-5-05. Joint Committee Print. Provides an explanation of tax legislation enacted in the 108th Congress. Arranged in chronological order by the date each piece of legislation was signed into law. This document, prepared by the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation in consultation with the staffs of the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance, provides an explanation of tax legislation enacted in the 108th Congress. The explanation follows the chronological order of the tax legislation as signed into law. For each provision, the document includes a description of present law, explanation of the provision, and effective date. Present law describes the law in effect immediately prior to enactment. It does not reflect changes to the law made by the provision or subsequent to the enactment of the provision. For many provisions, the reasons for change are also included. In some instances, provisions included in legislation enacted in the 108th Congress were not reported out of committee before enactment. For example, in some cases, the provisions enacted were included in bills that went directly to the House and Senate floors. As a result, the legislative history of such provisions does not include the reasons for change normally included in a committee report. In the case of such provisions, no reasons for change are included with the explanation of the provision in this document. In some cases, there is no legislative history for enacted provisions. For such provisions, this document includes a description of present law, explanation of the provision, and effective date, as prepared by the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation. In some cases, contemporaneous technical explanations of certain bills were prepared and published by the staff of the Joint Committee. In those cases, this document follows the technical explanations. Section references are to the Internal Revenue Code unless otherwise indicated.

EC Customs Law is an important new study which places the law relating to customs duty in its broader international and EC context. It is a key resource for those already familiar to the area, whether as practitioners, government or Community officials, or graduate students, as well as anaccessible introduction for readers who are coming to the subject for the first time. It aims, in particular, to highlight the role of the European Court of Justice in customs matters.After looking at the fundamental concepts of the customs union and the Community Customs Code and implementing regulations, the author moves on to consider the administration and interpretation of the Tariff, paying special attention to the decisions of the ECJ. Then the various internationalagreements and arrangements between the EC and third countries are considered, and their significance for traders, and the importance of international law generally, is emphasized.The book also deals with the important matters of the origin of goods and their valuation, customs entry and declarations, customs procedures, inward and outward processing, and approved uses and treatments. Chapters follow on the customs debt and reliefs from duty, repayment and remission of duty,and customs appeal. The book concludes with a short overview of some of the issues which are being addressed by the Commission and customs administration in deepening the customs union, and it looks, briefly, at some of the matters which traders must bear in mind in planning theiractivities.