TTM05501 - Tax Avoidance: Outline

It is a condition of remaining within Tonnage Tax that a company is not a party to any transaction or arrangement that is an abuse of the tonnage tax regime.

A transaction or arrangement is such an abuse if, in consequence, the tonnage tax legislation falls to be applied in a way that results (or would but for this paragraph results) in:

• a tax advantage being obtained for:

• a company other than a tonnage tax company, or
• a tonnage tax company in respect of its non-tonnage tax activities,

or

• the amount of the tonnage tax profits of a tonnage tax company being artificially reduced.

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