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Tax Residency

Tax residency is the jurisdictional status that determines which country has primary right to tax an individual’s worldwide income or a corporation’s global profits — a foundational concept underlying every cross-border tax analysis.

Transfer Pricing

Transfer pricing is the body of tax law and economic methodology governing the prices charged between related parties (typically members of the same corporate group) in cross-border transactions — covering goods, services, royalties, intercompany loans, cost-sharing arrangements, and any other in…

Permanent Establishment (PE)

Permanent Establishment (PE) is a tax-treaty concept defining when a non-resident enterprise’s presence in another country becomes “fixed” or “permanent” enough to permit the source country to tax the enterprise’s business profits attributable to that presence.

Withholding Tax

Withholding tax is income tax deducted at source by the payer of certain types of income — most commonly dividends, interest, royalties, service fees, and capital-gains proceeds — and remitted to the tax authority on behalf of the recipient.

Double Tax Treaty (DTT)

A Double Tax Treaty (DTT) — also called a Double Taxation Agreement (DTA) or Tax Treaty — is a bilateral agreement between two countries that allocates taxing rights over cross-border income and prevents the same income from being taxed twice by both jurisdictions.

NVCA Model Documents

The NVCA Model Legal Documents are the standardized template suite published by the National Venture Capital Association covering the principal agreements used in U.S. Series A through Series D venture financings.

Back-Up Certificate (Stock)

A Back-Up Stock Certificate (also called a duplicate or replacement certificate) is a new physical certificate issued to a shareholder when the original certificate has been lost, stolen, misplaced, or destroyed.

National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)

The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) is the principal U.S. trade association representing the venture capital industry. Based in Washington, D.C., NVCA serves as the policy voice of U.S.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a cloud computing delivery model in which the provider supplies on-demand compute, storage, networking, and virtualization resources — without the customer owning physical hardware.

Free Cash Flow (FCF)

Free Cash Flow (FCF) is the cash a company generates after paying for operating expenses, taxes, and capital expenditures (CapEx) needed to maintain or grow its asset base.