Company: GDHLF
Filing Date: 2025-05-29
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001104659-25-053912
Chunk: 136

Company: GDS Holdings Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-05-29
Form: 424B5
Chunk 136
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RC tax is imposed on gain on a disposition of our Class A ordinary shares or ADSs, including the availability of the foreign tax credit or a deduction and the election to treat any gain as PRC source, under your particular circumstances.

#### Passive Foreign Investment Company Considerations
Based on the past and projected composition of our income and assets and the valuation of our assets, we do not believe we were a PFIC for our most recent taxable year and we do not expect to be a PFIC for our current taxable year or in the foreseeable future, although there can be no assurance in this regard, since the determination of our PFIC status cannot be made until the end of a taxable year and depends significantly on the composition of our assets and income throughout the year.

In general, we will be a PFIC for any taxable year in which:

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at least 75% of our gross income is passive income, or

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at least 50% of the value (generally based on a quarterly average) of our assets is attributable to assets that produce or are held for the production of passive income.

For this purpose, passive income generally includes dividends, interest, royalties and rents (other than royalties and rents derived in the active conduct of a trade or business and not derived from a related person), as well as gains from the sale of assets (such as stock) that produce passive income, foreign currency gains, and certain other categories of income. In addition, cash and other assets readily convertible into cash are generally considered passive assets. If we own at least 25% (by value) of the stock of another corporation, we will be treated, for purposes of determining whether we are a PFIC, as owning our proportionate share of the other corporation’s assets and receiving our proportionate share of the other corporation’s income. However, it is not entirely clear how the contractual arrangements between us and the VIEs will be treated for purposes of the PFIC rules. For U.S. federal income tax purposes, we consider ourselves to own the stock of the VIEs. If it is determined, contrary to our view, that we do not own the stock of the VIEs for U.S. federal income tax purposes (for instance, because the relevant PRC authorities do not respect these arrangements), that would alter the composition of our income and assets for purposes of testing our PFIC status, and may cause us to be treated as a PFIC.