ESR: relevant activity versus a holding company.

What relevant activity means

If you carry on a relevant activity, substance has to be real. If you do not, file that. Inventing an office on paper is how ESR goes wrong.

Holdings

A pure holding fact pattern is different from a trading company that calls itself a holding company. We read invoices.

Same office as CT

ESR and Corporate Tax should not contradict. They are different regimes. They share a ledger in this practice.

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