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Title: | Conduit Companies, Beneficial Ownership, and the Test of Substantive Business Activity in Claims for Relief under Double Tax Treaties | Contributor(s): | Jain, Saurabh (author); Prebble, John (author); Bunting, Kristina (author) | Publication Date: | 2013 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/13212 | Abstract: | If interpreted in a strict legal sense, beneficial ownership rules in tax treaties would have no effect on conduit companies because companies at law own their property and income beneficially. Conversely, a company can never own anything in a substantive sense because economically a company is no more than a congeries of arrangements that represents the people behind it. Faced with these contradictory considerations, people have adopted surrogate tests that they attempt to employ in place of the treaty test of beneficial ownership. An example is that treaty benefits should be limited to companies that are both resident in the states that are parties to the treaty and that carry on substantive business activity. The test is inherently illogical. The origins of the substantive business activity test appear to lie in analogies drawn with straw company and base company cases. Because there is no necessary relationship between ownership and activity, the test of substantive business activity can never provide a coherent surrogate for the test of beneficial ownership. The article finishes with a Coda that summarises suggestions for reform to be made in work that is to follow. | Publication Type: | Conference Publication | Conference Details: | ATTA 2013: 25th Australasian Tax Teachers Association Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 23rd - 25th January, 2013 | Source of Publication: | Tax Alchemy: Turning silver into gold - Abstracts of the Australasian Tax Teachers Association Conference, p. 18-18 | Publisher: | University of Auckland, Business School | Place of Publication: | Auckland, New Zealand | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 180125 Taxation Law | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 480106 Taxation law | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 940499 Justice and the Law not elsewhere classified | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 230499 Justice and the law not elsewhere classified | HERDC Category Description: | E3 Extract of Scholarly Conference Publication | Publisher/associated links: | http://ebooks.business.auckland.ac.nz/2013-business-school-ATTA-conference-abstracts |
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