05 March 2020

Uruguay will allow taxpayers to choose not to compute goodwill in certain restructurings

Under certain circumstances, corporate income taxpayers may choose not to compute goodwill in restructurings.

On 28 February 2020, Uruguay’s Executive Power issued a decree modifying Decree No. 150/2007, by adding a new article on corporate restructurings conducted through mergers or spin-offs. The new article allows taxpayers to not compute the goodwill in those transactions if the following conditions are met:

  1. The “final owners” of the surviving company must be the same as the “final owners” of the companies involved in the mergers or spin-offs, and they must keep their capital interests in the same proportion (except in cases of inheritance, marital dissolution or spousal partition (i.e., spouses split the assets they have)).
  2. The entire chain of ownership identifying the ultimate owners has been included in the affidavit submitted to the Uruguayan Central Bank.
  3. The business purpose of the former companies is maintained for at least two years.

For additional information with respect to this Alert, please contact the following:

Ernst & Young Uruguay, Montevideo
Ernst & Young LLP (United States), Latin American Business Center, New York
Ernst & Young LLP (United Kingdom), Latin American Business Center, London
Ernst & Young Tax Co., Latin America Tax Desk, Japan & Asia Pacific

ATTACHMENT

 

Document ID: 2020-5347