VATDSAG03150 - Single Entity: is there a single entity?
A business is a single entity if the overall day-to-day control and management of all the various activities being carried on rests in the hands of one person. That person could be
- a legal person (for example, a body corporate)
- a natural person (for example, a sole proprietor), or
- a group of persons jointly (for example, a partnership or association of some sort).
In most cases, the question of whether there is a single legal entity will be clear. For example
- a sole proprietor claiming that his two shops are separate businesses
- a company claiming that its wholesale and retail arms are separate businesses.
An alternative scenario could be a sole proprietor, making taxable supplies in his own name, who claims to be in partnership with another individual (probably a sleeping partner) when he makes a different type of taxable supply. In a scenario like this, you may be able to prove that the partnership is fictitious and that the sole proprietor is actually making all the supplies.
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