(kein Abstract vorhanden) / Series: Discussion Papers SFB International Tax Coordination

The European Commission is currently working on a legislative draft to harmonise the corporate income tax provisions for multinational groups of companies throughout the European Union. For that purpose the European Commission has installed a working group with the mission to draft a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) applicable for multinational companies. As the EU member states are not willing to surrender their taxing power to the supranational level of the EU each group entity's tax base would be determined by apportionment of the group's overall taxable income according to a predefined micro-economic factor based formula whereas the group income will be calculated by consolidating earnings beforehand separately determined by each group entity (preconsolidation income). The situs state of the particular group entity would then apply its statutory corporate tax rate on the apportioned tax base. This paper evaluates the effects of this prospective apportionment procedure on any given corporate group entity and finds that the share of the group's income allocated to a particular entity using the apportionment formula does regularly not equal the pre-consolidation income of the respective group entity. The reasons for this regular observable deviation can be found on the one hand in the concept of the apportionment formula and on the other hand in the specifics of the definitions of the apportionment factors. (author's abstract) / Series: Discussion Papers SFB International Tax Coordination

The present work researches the taxation and tax planning of foreign-invested holding companies in the People's Republic of China. The scientific field of the work is the science of Tax Management. The research is undertaken with the goal to deliver a profound presentation of the corporate taxation of such foreign-invested holding companies established in the PRC. Based on such presentation, internationally known tax planning methods are examined to find clues for valid tax-planning means and methods for such holding companies. The scientific approach is to be seen as content-analytical with a strong reference to the basics of corporate holding taxation as exercised in Austria. The author describes the legal nature of holding companies, as they exist in Austrian and Chinese law setting the focus on incorporated holding companies. The legal conditions of establishing a foreign-invested holding company in the PRC are explained and clues for the tax examination are presented. Based on the finding that the Austrian "Gruppenbesteuerung" offers a tax consolidation model, which allows the setting off tax results amongst qualifying members, the author researches the Chinese tax laws for a similar group-relief system. However, as the research shows Chinese law does not contain any form of tax group-relief regime for foreign-invested holding companies. Therefore, the work continues to research further tax facts and tax events of Chinese tax legislation for means that allow foreign corporate investors to efficiently structure their investments from a tax point of view. In order to conduct such a search of alternative tax planning clues the research, basically, follows the systematic of the balance sheet of corporations determining the taxation of the individual balance sheet items. Finally, the work hints to the coming introduction of a new Chinese enterprise tax law which may change the situation of the taxation and tax planning of foreign-invested holding companies in the PRC altogether. (author's abstract)