I have a situation where a UK company is owned 100% by a company in a tax free area.
The companies only function is to act as a marketing presence in the UK and as such its only income is marketing fees from the parent.
Its only expenses are payroll items for its employees and other admin costs ( travel, rent etc)
it has to charge vat on its maangement fees and has taxable profit that it pays CT on.
My question is. Can the company reorganise and act as a branch. If so then presumably it would just be a loss making branch as the Management Fee could be ignored.
Chris Walter
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There really...
...shouldn't be any difference between the UK taxable profits of operating as a branch as opposed to operating as a subsidiary.
The idea is that the branch should make the same taxable profits 'which it might be expected to make if it were a distinct and separate enterprise engaged in the same or similar activities ... and dealing wholly independently with the enterprise of which it is a branch' (see OECD Model Double Taxation Convention Article 7).
If the branch did not actually make a charge to its head office, an appropriate fee would be imputed by the Inland Revenue in computing its UK taxable profits.