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===Negatives, negatives, everywhere ===
{{isda Indemnifiable Tax summ|isdaprov}}
Without wishing to be overly [[negative]]<ref>All right, I ''do'' wish to be overly negative. It’s in my nature.</ref>, this one truly comes from the "wow" file in indefensible drafting:
 
:... ''other than'' a tax which would ''not'' be imposed ''but for''...
 
Not only a [[triple negative]], but since ISDA’s definition of {{isdaprov|Tax}} already contains a negative (being any tax that isn’t a {{isdaprov|Stamp Tax}}) and “{{isdaprov|Indemnifiable Tax}}” is itself often used in the negative (e.g. “a tax which is [[not]] an {{isdaprov|Indemnifiable Tax}}”) — or even ''[[double negative]]'' (e.g. “''other than'' a tax which is not an {{isdaprov|Indemnifiable Tax}}”) in the body of the {{isdama}}. That makes it a '''[[sextuple negative]]'''. Beat ''that'' [[ISLA]].

Latest revision as of 10:49, 24 December 2023

Negatives, negatives, everywhere

Without wishing to be overly negative[1], this one truly comes from the "wow" file in indefensible drafting:

... other than a tax which would not be imposed but for...

Not only a triple negative, but since the squad’s definition of Tax already contains a negative (being any tax that isn’t a Stamp Tax) and “Indemnifiable Tax” is itself often used in the negative (e.g. “a tax which is not an Indemnifiable Tax”) — or even double negative (e.g. “other than a tax which is not an Indemnifiable Tax”) in the body of the ISDA Master Agreement. That makes it a sextuple negative. Beat that ISLA.

Now: as we know, HAL 9000 is coming to a legal workspace near you and will soon deliver us from these noisome legal curlicues.[2] The JC fed this language into the “OpenAI” text generator, and asked for a summary that a second grader (in old money, an eight-year-old) could understand and, well, the outcome is impressive:

Indemnifiable Tax is a kind of tax that is different from other taxes. It is a tax that is only imposed when someone is connected to the country or state that imposes the tax. This connection could be because the person is from the country, does business there, or has gotten money from there.

  1. ↑ All right, I do wish to be overly negative. It’s in my nature.
  2. ↑ It won’t.
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