A range of countries offers shipping companies the opportunity to be taxed in accordance with tonnage tax regulations, which means paying a fixed amount of tax per ton of tonnage deployed.
The Danish research and analysis company Sea-Intelligence explains that in this case, the pre-tax income does not matter. “If you lose money, you still have to pay tax, but if you are suddenly extremely profitable, like with the carriers in 2021, you get a competitive edge versus the carriers that cannot avail...
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