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1、帆船案ppt课件 Still waters run deep.流静水深流静水深,人静心深人静心深 Where there is life,there is hope。有生命必有希望。有生命必有希望The Catalogue2022/11/10ConlusionLegal AnalysisIssueBackground Facts Statement The UK Ltd company engaged a Turkey company as an agent,as required by the tourism legislation.This agent provided,amongst o

2、ther things,preparatory services for the expedition and arranged transfers of the tourists to the yachts.The agent was also responsible for piloting services and providing documentation as required by the Turkish authorities.2022/11/10 UK Ltd,a company resident in the United Kingdom,carried on touri

3、stic yachting operations with its own yachts in Turkish territorial waters.For the facts to be clarified,the touristic yachting service must be described.Such touristic yachting services are comparable to hotel services conducted in hotel buildings for vacation purposes,ie.The yachting service is no

4、t a transportation service or passenger carriage.The tourists stay in the yachts during a sea excursion,which comprises several bays of Turkish coastal area.The excursion starts from and ends at a specific harbour.During the navigation,several bay stops are determined for anchoring and staying at ni

5、ghts.2022/11/10the UK Ltd rendered its yachting services only to foreign customers.Foreign yachting enterprises,whose commercial transactions effected abroad hat to be represented,and relevant services including documentation and registration transactions related to Turkish operations had to be supp

6、lied by Turkish traval agencies in Turkey.TR AC,a travel agency company,resident in Turkey,supplied the UK Ltd services such as preparatory services for the expedition,transfers of the tourists to the yachts,providing commissaries,pilotage services and documentary services with the Turkish authoriti

7、es,etc.2022/11/10 The tax authorities argued that income from touristic yachting services supplied in Turkey to foreign customers with the permission of the Ministry of Tourism was considered to be business income of the UK company subject to corporate income tax assessable on the permanent represen

8、tative,a Turkish Travel Agency Company.The Turkish Travel Agency Company argued that neither permanent representative relationship nor a PE existed in Turkey.2022/11/10With regard to domestic Turkish law non-resident companies are subject to corporate income tax only on income derived from sources i

9、n Turkey.A non-resident corporate body is subject to corporate income tax on its“Business profits”if it has a PE or a Permanent representative in Turkey and if it receives corporate income through the PE or permanent representative.http:/ KingdomTurkeyUK Ltdtouristic yachting servicesTravel agency c

10、ompany PE of the UK Ltd?whether or not the activities of the Turkish company constitutes a PE of the UK company?The Use of PEsIt is very common among the EU member states to internally use a definition closelyconnected to that of the OECD MTC.The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Developmen

11、t(OECD)has 30 member countries,involved Turkey and United kingdom 2022/11/10 PE-Definition Art.5 DTC(Double Tax Convention)Turkey-United KingdomFor the purposes of this Agreement,the term“permanent establishment”means a fixed place of business through which the business of an enterprise is wholly or

12、 partly carried on.In respect of a DTC,if there is a“Fixed place of business”in the sense of Article 5(1),there is no longer any need to revert to paragraphs 5(dependent agents)and 6(independent agents)of that Article.It is only when the first and second paragraphs reveal the non-existence of a PE o

13、n account of the absence of a fixed place of business that paragraph 5 and paragraph 6 should be reverted to for an examination of the case under the agency aspect.2022/11/10 Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs(1)and(2)of this Article,where a person other than an agent of independent status

14、 to whom paragraph 6 applies is acting in a Contracting State on behalf of an enterprise of the other Contracting State,that enterprise shall be deemed to have a permanent establishment in the first-mentioned Contracting state in respect of any activities which that person undertakes for the enterpr

15、ise.(Dependent agents)2022/11/10 According to the OECD MC For the purposes of this Convention,the term permanent establishment means a fixed place of business through which the business of an enterprise is wholly or partly carried on.this definition therefore contains the following conditions:The ex

16、istence of a“place of business”:A facility such a premises or in certain instances,machinery or equipmentThis place for business must be fixed:it must be established at a distinct place with a certain degree for permanenceThe carrying on of the business of the enterprise through this fixed place of

17、business2022/11/10For a PE to exist there must be a“place of business”which refers to the“physical element of the definition”.The term“place of business”covers any premises,facilities,or installations used for carrying on the business of the enterprise whether or not they are used exclusively for th

18、at purpose.A place of business may also exist where no premises are available or required for carrying on the business of the enterprise and it simply has a certain amount of space at its disposal.A place of business covers all tangible assets used for carrying on business:such as real property,buil

19、dings,machines,computers,ships,aircraft and drilling rigs.2022/11/10 There is no doubt that a yacht is a“physical object which is commercially suitable as the basis of a business activity:touristic yachting operations.2022/11/10The place of business has to be a“fixed”one:The term has two prongs:(1)t

20、he geographical element:a location of the place of business at a specific point.According to the OECD-MC,the term“fixed”refers to a link between the place of business and a specific geographical point.In order to be considered to be“fixed”the equipment must be placed on a“distinct place”:however act

21、ual fixation to the soil on which it stands is not required.It is enough that the equipment remains on a particular site.A PE is a specific geographical point or a particular site on the earths surface used in a way going beyond a temporary nature:It is sufficient that a certain place is available f

22、or the performance of the activity.Then the question arises here whether a yacht moving a sea excursion between the bays of the turkish territory can be considered to be a“fixed”establishment.2022/11/10 2022/11/10Placing yachts in turkish territorial waters within turkish boarders was found to be su

23、fficient.The term fixed should not be understood as referring to dislocation or stability since otherwise many ambulatory business forms might no longer be covered by the concept of PE.The link between the place of business and a particular site and the nature of the activity should be observed unde

24、r the specific an independent circumstances of each case.Turning to the facts of the case at hand,yachts are placed in territorial waters for an excursion starting from and finishing at a specific harbour whereby the route and the navigation line are fixed.The yachting operation takes place within a

25、 particular and distinct sea site where several bay stops determined for anchoring an staying overnight.The yachts start navigation from a specific harbour,stop in several bays for swimming and night stays and return to the initial harbour to complete the touristic tour.2022/11/10Considering the nat

26、ure of the business activity,which is not a transportation activity,the navigation route is not comparable to a railway as such,and the yacht itself does not correspond to a train.However the yacht itself may be considered to be a floating hotel.The operation as a coherent whole is permanent and reg

27、ular under the explanations provided in the OECD-MC where it is stated:a single place of business will generally be considered to exist where,in light of the nature of the business,a particular location within which the activities are moved may be identified as constituting a coherent whole commerci

28、ally and geographically with respect to that business.There is no doubt that the yachts are fixed accounding tothe geographical element.2022/11/10(2)The temporal element A second aspect of the term“fixed”refers to the temporal element of the permanent establishment definition.For a PE to exist,a deg

29、ree of permanency and regularity is required.The activity should not take place temporarily or occasionally.However,this cannot be understood as“everlasting”or“indefinitely continuing”.2022/11/10 As state in the OECD-MC,since the place of business must be fixed:it also follows that a PE can be deeme

30、d to exist only if the place of business has a certain degree of permanency,ie if it is not of a purely temporary nature.A place of business may,however,constitute a PE even though it exists,in practice,only for a very short period of time because the nature of the business is such that it will only

31、 be carried on for a short period of time.2022/11/10In the case at hand,the yachting activities is a seasonal business.When the seasonal character of the business and the repeated excursions conducted by yachts are considered,it can be said that the business carried on through an organized an cohere

32、nt yacht fleet is a regular one and the place of business is permanent in nature.Therefore,the yacht is fixed when referring to temporal element 2022/11/10The words“through which”must be given a wide meaning so as to apply to any situation where business activities are carried on at a particular loc

33、ation that is at the disposal of the enterprise for that purpose.Disposal is the power to use the place of business directly;it means a considerable control which may be exercised by the taxpayer of his staff.Control might arise from legal control deriving from the ownership or factual control.2022/

34、11/10In the case at hand the yachts are owned by a non-resident company.The mere fact that the national legislation regulating the yachting operations requires a Ministerial permission and a representative to be assigned do not change or alter the fact that the non-resident company authorization to

35、use and occupy the yachts to conduct the yachting operation.2022/11/10the existence of a“place of business”physical element:yacht this place of business must be“fixed”geographical element:a link between the place of business and a specific geographical point;in light of(the nature of the businesstem

36、poral element:certain degree of permanency yacht moving within Turkish territorial waters the carrying on of the business of the enterprise through this fixed place of business2022/11/10Lower Tax Courts Opinion:In this respect the TR AS does not have a permanent representative statute.In accordance

37、with the relevant DTC which permits the source state taxation if a PE is situated in Turkey,the foreign company conducting its transactions through its travel agency TR AS does not have a PE in Turkey.Supreme Administrative court:The contract,between the relevant companies clearly states that there

38、is an agency relationship.Under the Turkish tourism regulations,foreign flagged yachts are not directly permitted to conduct passenger transportation within and between Turkish harbours:therefore,the TS AS that undertakes the service and representation responsibility of the yachting operations is cl

39、early in a permanent representative statute.2022/11/10 The UK company did have a PE in Turkey.Each yacht was used in Turkey,placed Turkey and served Turkish territorial waters within Turkish borders.Thus,each yacht constituted a PE.In the context of the tax treaty,each yacht met the definition of a

40、PE,as the yachts themselves were the places of business through which the business of the foreign enterprise was carried on and each was fixed on its location with a specific excursion route and sufficiently fixed in duration,taking into account the seasonal nature of the business.2022/11/10OECD常设机构注释OECD官网2022/11/102022/11/10