Company: NCL
Filing Date: 2025-02-07
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001575872-25-000134
Chunk: 24

Company: Northann Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-02-07
Form: 424B3
Chunk 24
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 dividends paid to the Company as a Nevada corporation. According to the PRC Company Law and Foreign Investment Law, each of Crazy Industry, Marco, Ringold and NCP, as a foreign invested enterprise, or FIE, is required to draw 10% of its after-tax profits each year, if any, to fund a common reserve, which may stop drawing its after-tax profits if the aggregate balance of the common reserve has already accounted for over 50% of its registered capital. These reserves are not distributable as cash dividends. Furthermore, under the EIT Law, which became effective in January 2008, the maximum tax rate for the withholding tax imposed on dividends payments from PRC foreign invested companies to their overseas investors that are not regarded as “resident” for tax purposes is 20%. The rate was reduced to 10% under the Implementing Regulations for the EIT Law issued by the State Council. However, a lower withholding tax rate might be applied if there is a tax treaty between China and the jurisdiction of the foreign holding companies. Under the Arrangement between Mainland China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to Taxes on Income, where a Hong Kong resident enterprise, which is considered a non-PRC tax resident enterprise, directly holds at least 25% of the equity interests in a PRC enterprise, the withholding tax rate in respect to the payment of dividends by such PRC enterprise to such Hong Kong resident enterprise is reduced to 5% from a standard rate of 10%, subject to approval of the PRC local tax authority. Accordingly, Benchwick, our only Hong Kong subsidiary that has subsidiaries, is able to enjoy the 5% withholding tax rate for the dividends it receives from its PRC subsidiaries, Crazy Industry, Ringold and Marco if Benchwick satisfies the conditions prescribed in relevant tax rules and regulations and obtain the approvals as required. However, if Benchwick is considered to be a non-beneficial owner for purposes of the tax arrangement, any dividends paid to it by its PRC subsidiaries directly would not qualify for the preferential dividends withholding tax rate of 5%, but rather would be subject to a rate of 10%. Transfers of funds among the PRC subsidiaries, Crazy Industry, Marco, Ringold and NCP, are subject to the Provisions of the Supreme People’s Court on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in the Trial of Private Lending Cases (2020 Revision, the