Thursday, February 28, 2019
Permanent Establishment
The theory of immutable psychiatric hospital (PE) in evaluate legal power is changing as a egress of digital innovations in international cable. For a region like Nigeria, immutable establishment allows the country to tax income the income or profit of foreign companies with a fixed place or physical presence in the country for 183 days or 12 months.But digital businesses do not need a fixed place or maintain a physical presence in the country before they can throw a profit. They do not necessarily need to bring forth an office, a factory, or a workshop in Nigeria before generating a perpetual income from the country. Examples of digital businesses that make income from Nigeria include GoDaddy.Com, Amazon.Com, Ebay.Com, etc.These companies do not have a fixed place of operation in Nigeria but turn over income through digital presence in the country. This puts to test the concept of a permanent establishment in Nigerian tax jurisdiction. To understand the temperament of p ermanent establishment in a digital economy, there is a need to investigate taxation jurisdiction on digital business from the angle of a developing country such as Nigeria.This flying field exit be guided by the following objectivesExamine the regulation of permanent establishment as expounded in the United Nations (UN) and Organisation for economical Co-operation and Development (OECD) ModelDiscuss the impact of digital business on the concept of a permanent establishment?Explore the possibility for a ancestor state, such as Nigeria, to tax incomes generated by web platforms (i.e. Google or Facebook)Identify and discuss the challenges faced by the Nigerian government in getting taxes from companies who operate in the digital economyUse the unused definition of a permanent establishment in Italy to crush tax jurisdiction on digital business in Nigeria. This study will adopt qualitative research method of legal research, analyze the concept of permanent establishment as a fra mework for tax jurisdiction on digital business in Nigeria.Primary documents such as the Nigerian tax laws (including the Avoidance of Double Taxation Agreement), the Italian tax laws (Conventions to Avoid Double Taxation), the UN Model Double Taxation Convention, the OECD Model and opposite documents that are relevant will be explored in the study.Secondary source materials covering monographs, journal articles, magazines, books, movies, textbooks, long essays, dissertations, and theses will equally be explored to analyze tax jurisdiction in digital business in Nigeria. matter analysis will be used to study legal decisions relating to the permanent establishment and digital business in Nigeria.
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