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Russian Supreme Court Rules on Treatment of Income as Other Income under a Tax Treaty

23 October 2020

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Treaty Development

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Russia-Belarus

The Russian Supreme Court issued Decision 302-ES20-7898 on 6 October 2020 regarding the treatment of income as within the scope of the "Other Income" article of a tax treaty. The case involved a Russian company, Coiltubing-Service LLC, which had entered into a financial leasing agreement with a company in Belarus, ASB Leasing LLC. In making payments to ASB Leasing, Coiltubing considered that the payments fell within the scope of Article 7 (Business Profits) of the 1995 Belarus-Russia tax treaty and, because the payments were not attributed to a permanent establishment of ABS Leasing, Coiltubing withheld no tax on the payments....