- Title
- Base erosion and profit shifting by multinational corporations and weaknesses revealed in South African income tax legislation
- Creator
- Peerbhai, Aneesa
- Subject
- International business enterprises -- Law and legislation -- South Africa
- Subject
- Corporations -- Taxation -- Law and legislation -- South Africa
- Subject
- Tax planning -- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 2015
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MCom
- Identifier
- vital:917
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017540
- Description
- This research examined the concept of base erosion and profit shifting in the context of tax schemes employed by multinational corporations. The objective of this thesis was to identify weaknesses within South Africa’s income tax legislation, based on these schemes, and further to propose recommendations to counter the occurrence of base erosion and profit shifting by multinational companies. The research also comprised of a limited review of current global and South African initiatives to address the problem of base erosion and profit shifting. It was concluded that there are a number of weaknesses in the definitions and provisions of the South African income tax legislation that need to be addressed in order to reduce base erosion and profit shifting. Brief recommendations were proposed in relation to each of the weaknesses, in order to address them.
- Format
- 106 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Commerce, Accounting
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Peerbhai, Aneesa
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