Practical introduction to the law of income and capital tax conventions based on the OECD Convention as well as selected legislation and case law. After an introduction, the chapters deal with the OECD Model, the UN Model, provisions which are not included in the model conventions (technical fees, professors, teachers and researchers, activities in connection with preliminary surveys, exploration or extraction of hydrocarbons, tax sparing, most-favoured nation clause, taxation of services), agreements containing a single provision concerning exchange of information, new wording of article 7 in the 2010-update of the OECD Model, and changes in the commentaries in the 2010-update of the OECD Model.