Careful tax planning is an integral part of any successful international strategy.
We offer our clients the infrastructure to benefit, where possible, from reduced
tax rates in combination with access to top level legal, tax, administrative
and technical expertise.
Our tax counselling offers a wide range of services, including:
- International and domestic tax planning, tax optimization including the
Design of tax efficient structures.
- Development of transfer pricing systems.
- Tax planning for international groups, corporations, and individuals.
- Tax structuring and optimization of acquisitions and joint ventures, reorganizations.
- Inheritance, Value Added Tax, real estate tax, and other tax issues.
- Interpretation and application of double taxation treaties.
- Optimal routing of dividend, interest, and royalty streams.
- Swiss tax rulings for individuals and corporates.
- Swiss income tax return preparation.
The marketplace is putting increasing pressure on U.S. and
foreign-based multinationals to reduce their effective tax rates. In response
to this pressure, many organizations have sought out value-enhancing ideas in
order to better manage, and hopefully reduce, their U.S. and foreign tax burden.
This, in turn, has generated a market for tax-motivated structured transactions
or "products. A great number and variety of products, exhibiting varying
degrees of soundness, are in the marketplace. One of the main challenges for
the Chief Financial Officer or in-house tax professional, therefore, is to evaluate
these products objectively, taking into account the particular needs of his
or her organization.
The most important objective in effective global tax minimization is to identify
appropriately the main factors in the organization's or individual’s structure
that drive the effective tax rate. Improperly diagnosing the factors driving
this effective tax rate will often lead to short-term, rather than long-term,
tax reduction, and may actually exacerbate the problem. That is why we spend
time on the front-end, seeking to understand our client's business or situation
before we suggest a tax reduction technique to our clients.
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