Pillar Two: Corporate Reorganisations - Share Acquisitions & Disposals

Contents

  1. Accounting Treatment
  2. Purchase Accounting/Deferred Tax
  3. Substance-Based Income Exclusion
  4. Transfers of Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities
  5. Deemed Asset Deals

The Pillar Two Rules include specific provisions in Article 6.2 of the OECD Model Rules that apply to share acquisitions and disposals of group companies.

Transfers of assets are subject to different rules at: Intra-Group Asset Transfers. 

Accounting Treatment 

The general rule, as is often the case with the Pillar Two rules, is that the accounting treatment is followed.

As such, if any part of a company’s assets, liabilities, income of expenses are included in the UPE consolidated accounts, it is treated as part of the MNE group.

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