Published in conjunction with STEP, this is a unique and insightful publication that brings together, in one handy and user-friendly volume, the majority of the papers delivered at the STEP Tax Treaty Symposium on Trusts and International Tax Treaties held in May 2005. The current and important topics covered at this key conference included trusts as investment platforms, the treatment of trusts under the oecd model convention, taxation of trusts in Italy, trusts in the Netherlands, trusts in civil law countries, and US taxation of trusts under income tax conventions.