Tax and Accounting

AREA: INTERNATIONAL

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Approximately 12 updates per year

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Your essential global cross-border tax resource, this service provides quick answers to pressing international tax and business questions, minimising risk, reducing costs and increasing productivity.  The Guide gives you in-depth tax information to support corporate investment decisions and oversee tax compliance matters of overseas subsidiaries or branches. It enables busy tax professionals to understand cross-border and business issues before engaging foreign tax advice.

Features & Benefits

• Extensive coverage of 47 countries
• Written in plain English (customers do not have to translate!)
• A tax system ‘snapshot’ providing essential tax facts conveniently located at the start of each country chapter
• In-depth commentary on all forms of doing business (stock corporation, partnerships, sole traders, etc) and those aspects of a country's tax system of vital interest to companies seeking to do business in that jurisdiction
• Commentary for each country is comprehensively cited to source material, providing direction for further research
• Consistent treatment of topics across countries, allowing for easy comparison
• Monthly updates of the online service: unique to this service, keeping customers informed of the latest developments and up coming changes

Contents Includes

47 countries currently covered:

• Argentina
• Australia
• Austria
• Belgium
• Brazil
• Canada
• China
• Cyprus
• the Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Egypt
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Hong Kong
• Hungary
• India
• Indonesia
• Ireland (Republic of)
• Israel
• Italy
• Japan
• Korea (Republic of)
• Luxembourg
• Malaysia
• Mexico
• The Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Russian Federation
• Singapore
• South Africa
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Taiwan
• Thailand
• Turkey
• United Kingdom
• United States of America
• Venezuela

with the aim of regularly adding new countries.

Topics covered:

• Forms of doing business
• Complete outline of the tax system, including payment dates, advance ruling system and audits
• Special deductions, exemptions and incentives
• Direct and indirect taxes
• Capital gains
• Local taxes
• Treatment of losses
• Depreciation
• Group consolidation rules
• Treatment of dividends and interest
• Reduction of capital
• Transfer pricing
• Alternative financing instruments
• Foreign exchange transactions
• Tax treaty planning
• Inbound and outbound considerations
• Exchange controls
• Controlled foreign company rules
• Thin capitalisation restrictions
• Specific rules affecting non-residents