What is the purpose of the anti-fragmentation rule introduced under BEPS?

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The anti-fragmentation rule under BEPS prevents taxpayers from breaking a single cohesive business operation into separate small activities in order to claim each is merely “ancillary or preparatory” and thus avoid creating a permanent establishment (PE).

1) Relevant knowledge points and concepts
- Permanent Establishment (PE): a fixed place of business in a jurisdiction that gives taxing rights to that jurisdiction.
- Auxiliary/preparatory activities: limited categories of activity that do not by themselves create a PE (e.g., storage, display, or preparatory tasks).
- BEPS Action 7 (OECD/G20): amended the PE definition to include an anti-fragmentation rule so that closely related activities are assessed together rather than in isolation.

2) Step-by-step reasoning
- Historically, a taxpayer could split an operational chain into multiple small tasks located in a country; each task might individually be ancillary/preparatory and therefore not constitute a PE.
- BEPS introduced an anti-fragmentation rule that requires looking at whether separate activities are part of a cohesive business operation.
- If activities are complementary or form a significant part of the business, they must be aggregated for the PE analysis; the aggregation can push the combined activities beyond “auxiliary/preparatory,” creating a PE.

3) Intermediate logical steps (no numeric calculations)
- Identify each activity performed in the jurisdiction.
- Determine whether activities are interdependent or form a single business function.
- Aggregate those activities when assessing whether they fall within the auxiliary/preparatory exception.

4) Why the correct answer is correct
- The rule’s explicit purpose is to close the loophole of splitting activities to avoid PE status by treating related fragments as a whole.

5) Why other options are incorrect
- a. Eliminating VAT obligations: unrelated to BEPS PE anti-fragmentation.
- b. Merging tax treaties: BEPS modifies treaty interpretation but does not “merge” treaties.
- c. Reducing compliance burden: BEPS measures often increase clarity/enforcement; anti-fragmentation tightens PE rules rather than reducing compliance.

6) Conclusion
- Therefore, the correct answer is d. To prevent splitting activities to qualify as auxiliary, which matches the provided answer.

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