Permanent Establishment Domestic Taxation, Bilateral Tax Treaty and OECD Perspective

Permanent Establishments

A Domestic Taxation, Bilateral Tax Treaty and OECD Perspective

Fifth Edition

Edited by Ekkehart Reimer, Stefan Schmid & Marianne Orell

Permanent Establishments (PEs) are a key facet of international taxation. They constitute the crucial threshold for the assignment of taxing rights to a jurisdiction in all cases of enterprises operating in more than one country. The issue of whether there is a PE, and how much profit should be allocated to it, is an increasingly important factor in tax planning, tax accounting, tax compliance, and related tax risk management.

This academically rigorous yet thoroughly practical work provides comprehensive guidance on a variety of complex PE issues. Its initial chapters analyse the latest OECD and EU developments in the context of Articles 5 and 7 of the OECD Model Tax Convention (2014 update), the 2015 proposals of the G20/OECD BEPS project (action item 7) and the most recent EU Recommendation on tax treaty abuse of 28 January 2016. 21 country chapters cover domestic PE issues as well as country-specific treaty developments from a practical perspective.

Contributors: Fabrizio Acerbis, Gunnar Andersson, Maret Ansperi, Yumiko Arai, Elizabeth Brandt, Ákos Burján, Peter Collins, Mike Cooper, David Cuellar, Ketan Dalal, Veronika Daurer, Frank Feng, Mikhail Filinov, Sandra Fleurier, Jose Antonio Gonzalez, Herbert Greinecker, Søren Jesper Hansen, Mauricio Hurtado, Martin Jann, Renaud Jouffroy, Natalia Kuznetsova, David Lermer, Iren Lipre, Anna Mallol, Hamish McElwee, Osman Mollagee, Matthew Mui, Ramón Mullerat, Luis Felipe Muñoz, Stephen Nauheim, Francesco Nuzzolo, Yoshiyasu Okada, Marianne Orell, Oren Penn, Martin Poulsen, Emmanuel Raingeard de la Blétière, Lene Munk Rasmussen, Ekkehart Reimer, Daniel Rinke, Stefan Schmid, Maximilian Schrepfer, Vishal J. Shah, Smit Sheth, Maarten Temmerman, Ibolya Tóth, Sofie Van de Perre, Hein Vermeulen, Huili Wang, Sonia Watson, Carl Wattrang, Ciska Wisman, Raymond Wong & Alan Yam.