    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 36 (Monday, September 9, 1996)]
    [Pages 1642-1643]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Message to the Senate Transmitting the Turkey-United States Tax
    Agreement

    September 3, 1996

    To the Senate of the United States:

        I transmit herewith for Senate advice and consent to ratification
    the Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and
    the Government of the Republic of Turkey for the Avoidance of Double
    Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on
    Income, together with a related Protocol, signed at Washington March 28,
    1996. Also transmitted for the information of the Senate is the report
    of the Department of State with respect to the Agreement.
        This Agreement, which is similar to tax treaties between the United
    States and other OECD nations, provides maximum rates of tax to be
    applied to various types of income, protection from double taxation of
    income, exchange of information to prevent fiscal evasion, and standard
    rules to limit the benefits of the Agreement to persons that are not
    engaged in treaty shopping.
        I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration
    to this Agree-

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    ment and related Protocol and give its advice and consent to
    ratification.
                                                William J. Clinton
    The White House,
    September 3, 1996.