The Federal Tax Authority (FTA) released a comprehensive guide on interest deduction limitation rules that provides important clarifications on:
- The various expenses that need to be considered as part of interest expenditure while calculating the taxable income.
- The order in which the various corporate tax provisions should be applied for computing the deductible amount of interest.
Highlights of the guide include:
- Meaning of interest
- Deductible interest expenditure
- General principles of deductibility of expenditure
- Arm鈥檚 length principle
- Specific interest deduction limitation rule (SIDLR)
- General interest deduction limitation rule (GIDLR)
- Exceptions to GIDLR
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