Tax Planning and Advisory: Assisting businesses and individuals in developing tax-efficient strategies to minimize their global tax liability while ensuring compliance with international tax laws. This includes identifying opportunities for tax optimization, evaluating the tax implications of cross-border transactions, and providing guidance on international tax compliance.
Cross-Border Tax Compliance: Ensuring compliance with tax obligations in multiple jurisdictions by assisting with tax registrations, filings, and reporting requirements. This involves preparing and submitting tax returns, managing withholding tax obligations, and addressing compliance issues associated with cross-border activities.
Transfer Pricing: Advising multinational enterprises (MNEs) on setting appropriate prices for intercompany transactions to comply with transfer pricing regulations and ensure that profits are fairly allocated across different jurisdictions. This includes conducting transfer pricing studies, preparing documentation, and assisting with transfer pricing audits.
Tax Treaty Analysis: Analyzing and interpreting tax treaties between countries to determine the application of tax rules and provisions. This involves assessing the impact of tax treaties on cross-border transactions, identifying potential treaty benefits, and ensuring proper application of treaty provisions to minimize double taxation.
International Taxation and Cross-Border Compliance
Controlled Foreign Corporation (CFC) Rules: Assisting companies in understanding and complying with CFC rules, which are aimed at preventing tax base erosion and profit shifting by taxing certain passive income earned by foreign subsidiaries of residents in their home country.
Expatriate Tax Services: Providing tax advice and assistance to individuals working or living abroad, including tax planning for internationally mobile employees, addressing tax equalization issues, and ensuring compliance with tax obligations in both the home and host countries.
Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Tax Services: Assisting businesses with the tax aspects of cross-border mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring transactions. This includes tax due diligence, structuring advice, and identifying tax-efficient strategies to optimize the tax implications of such transactions.
Value Added Tax (VAT) and Goods and Services Tax (GST): Advising on the application of VAT and GST rules in cross-border transactions, including compliance with registration, reporting, and remittance obligations.
International Tax Dispute Resolution: Assisting clients in resolving international tax disputes, including representing them in negotiations with tax authorities, pursuing advance pricing agreements (APAs), or participating in competent authority proceedings.
Tax Compliance Review and Risk Assessment: Conducting comprehensive reviews of international tax compliance processes and systems to identify potential risks and gaps in compliance. This involves evaluating internal controls, policies, and procedures to ensure adherence to international tax regulations.
