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+1 (888) 647 05 40On December 27″, 2018, St. Vincent and the Grenadines amended its International Business Companies and International Trusts legislation to meet its commitments to the EU Code of Conduct Group (Business Taxation) (EU COCG) under its Tax Governance Initiative and at the same time to the OECD BEPS Inclusive Framework.
In view of the uncertainty surrounding the EU’s approach and ability of individual Member States to have an input in the assessment process, strategy had to be employed to avoid the possibility of being blacklisted by making the requisite changes to the IBC and International Trusts legislation, which were already found acceptable to the EU, waiting to see the outcome of their assessment in February 2019, and then formally indicating that the country is moving to territorial taxation.
Existing companies registered prior to January 1** 2019, are not captured by the changes during the transition period;
New companies will be the ones affected but this would be for a short period (January Ist 2019 to targeted date in Ist Quarter 2019);
Amendments to the Income Tax Act to introduce territorial taxation in 1*’ Quarter 2019;
Economic Substance Legislation to accompany territorial taxation targeted in 1“ Quarter 2019;
Territorial taxation introduced to be applied a retrospectively, commencement date for entry into force being January Ist 2019, as the retroactive application would not affect the tax payer adversely. Regime can be in place by end of Ist Q.
Formal notice is given to the EU of our intention to move to territorial taxation after their February meetings and the intention is a more coordinated approach to economic substance legislation.
By December 31* 2018, the economic substance legislation of 2.2 jurisdictions will have been enacted, and regulations made and guidance issued. It will be more definitively known which jurisdictions are considered by the EU to have passed substance legislation that satisfies Criterion 2.2. This will provide us with model legislation to adopt for SVG.
The following legislation (attached hereto) were enacted on December 28″, 2018:
International Business Companies (Amendment and Consolidation) (Amendment) Act No. 36 of 2018
The substantial changes to the IBC Act are as follows:
As a result of the aforementioned legislative amendments, the forms related to IBCs and Trust have been amended and are attached hereto for your information and attention. Please take note of the following administrative changes:
This means that companies formed in 2019 will be subject to taxation in SVG and would need to file a tax return. The current local corporate rate is 30%. However, SVG will adopt a territorial tax regime before the end of Q1 2019 regime meaning that BC’s will only be taxed on income earned in SVG and NOT worldwide.
For IBCs formed before 2019, these entities may be required to file tax returns in the future but this will not be done for at least another 2 years according to the FSA.
As for Economic Substance, the government of SVG will see what is acceptable to the EU in short order and enact legislation that complies with their requests. Economic substance means physical presence, staffing, etc.
These matters will cost the client more for maintenance of their entities but will not be exorbitant as we will work with our clients with tax filing and related matters.
Happily Eternity Law specialists have already created a number of working schemes for our active clients that will allow to keep the business safe and profitable. In case you are not yet an active client of Eternity Law International – we will be pleased to transfer your company to our management for further support.
Please call us to discuss these matters at your convenience.
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