Simplified Limitation on Benefits restricts treaty benefits to qualified persons with exceptions and competent authority relief. Article 27 preserves diplomatic and consular fiscal privileges while applying the MLI's anti-abuse rules: the Simplified Limitation on Benefits confines treaty benefits to qualified persons or to residents engaged in the active conduct of a business (with specified exclusions), allows ownership-based and equivalent beneficiary tests, treats activities of connected persons as those of the resident, and authorises competent authority relief based on object and purpose considerations.
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Simplified Limitation on Benefits restricts treaty benefits to qualified persons with exceptions and competent authority relief.
Article 27 preserves diplomatic and consular fiscal privileges while applying the MLI's anti-abuse rules: the Simplified Limitation on Benefits confines treaty benefits to qualified persons or to residents engaged in the active conduct of a business (with specified exclusions), allows ownership-based and equivalent beneficiary tests, treats activities of connected persons as those of the resident, and authorises competent authority relief based on object and purpose considerations.
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