By the end of June of this year Kazakhstan signed the Multilateral convention to implement tax treaty related measures to prevent base erosion and profit shifting (MLI).
The MLI is designed under the OECD-lead effort to help countries counter tax avoidance and speed cross-border of transnational tax dispute resolution.
It is expected that the MLI provisions will add to the existing bilateral double tax treaties (DTT) provisions agreed as a result of the base erosion and profit shifting plan. However, such amendments will be made only upon negotiation with each country party to the DTT. As was reported by the Minister of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan intends to apply the MLI provisions to 45 DTT’s.
The MLI provides for the following main changes:
‒ if the foreign legal entity proves that it is not a holding company, or
‒ if the participants of the foreign legal entity are deemed to be one of the following persons: resident individuals, non-commercial organisations, state authorities and companies which shares are traded on the recognized stock exchange;
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