Deloitte comment letter on the tentative agenda decision on sale and leaseback in a corporate wrapper
We have commented on the IFRS Interpretations Committee's publication in the September 2020 IFRIC Update of the tentative decision not to take onto the Committee’s agenda the request for clarification on the applicability of the sale and leaseback requirements in IFRS 16 to a transaction in which an entity sells its equity interest in a subsidiary that holds one asset and leases that asset back.
We agree that the Committee’s conclusions as laid out in the agenda decision reflect the requirements of IFRS 10 and IFRS 16 in relation to the specific fact pattern presented therein. However, we strongly suggest that in addition to this decision the Board takes on a broader project to address the treatment of the sale of corporate wrappers, in particular when, if ever, these should be accounted for as sales of assets rather than subsidiaries.
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