Definition of "commissionnaire" []

• Alternative form of commissionaire. (noun)

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• "Recently two apparent paradoxes have been revealed about an agency permanent establishment (PE) under tax treaties, first that it is possible to avoid an agency PE by exploiting a difference between civil law and common law on agency (often referred to as commissionnaire structures) and secondly that if the agent is rewarded with a market-value fee there will be no profits to attribute to an agency PE."
• ""commissionnaire" at the hotel expects fifty centimes. Waiters '"
• "Others who came out to Quebec were Intendant Dolu himself and an officer named Baptiste Guers, who functioned in yet another royal office as commissionnaire to the viceroy, the intendant, and Champlain."