Tax Services

• Compliance, controls and controversy: are you ready?
• Cutting through the tax incentive labyrinth
• Singapore: The market for ideas
• Attracting holding companies: where Singapore can do better
• Extending Singapore’s lead as an asset management hub
• Singapore and Vietnam strengthen ties through tax treaty

• How to overcome common tax return mistakes
• Widening the scope of the M&A scheme
• Regionalisation and the CFO’s changing role in Asia
• The responsibilities of enjoying tax incentives
• The UK’s drive for competitiveness
• Inbound and outbound investing in Asia: a tax perspective
• Taxability of gains from sale of shares

• Tax–free treatment of gains on disposal of equity investments
• Further tax breaks for investing overseas
• Do not let this opportunity slip away
• Resolving transfer pricing disputes with APAs
• Vietnam marches towards a more complex tax system
• Fitting tax into the deal equation
• A new or existing investment?

• Moving up the productivity ladder
• Embracing the workforce reform together as a nation
• Towards greater tax certainty in Singapore
• A quiet confidence in Singapore’s maritime sector
• How much are your ideas worth?
• Time to overhaul the US tax system?”
• Navigating global trade pressures
• Vodafone’s quest for tax justice in India

• Putting productivity in the front seat
• Leaner, meaner, faster: streamlining for greater efficiency
• The intricacies of tax structuring in Asia
• Seven tax policy trends you need to know in Asia
• Throwing the tax net over business travellers
• Game changer: FATCA’s impact on financial institutions
• Sourcing rules: an application of fact?

• Time barred assessments: don’t get caught
• Pooling excess foreign tax credits to generate cash
• Tax deductions for going global
• Through a global lens: paving the way for cross-border taxpayer information exchange
• Deduction for purchase of trademarks, copyrights and registered designs in Hong Kong
• Investing in Philippine infrastructure projects
• The big shake-up: deciphering India’s new Direct Tax Code

• R&D in Singapore: what is R&D?
• Stepping forward for the Assisted Compliance Assurance Programme
• Assisted Compliance Assurance Programme: a win-win initiative
• Global tax trends in raising and investing capital
• Financing the acquisition: the case for a change in the rules
• What happens when you make a wrongful tax return

• Singapore’s tax rates: how they stack up
• Managing GST risks through internal controls
• Delivering benefits: the role of global employment organisations
• Singapore’s continuing relevance as a holding location
• Advertising and promotion expenses deemed as royalty payments in Thailand
• Hong Kong expands tax treaty network
• The business response to climate change
• Building or plant?

• Eight top tax issues for business leaders – has your business made its new year’s business tax resolutions?
• Why tax documentation matters
• Sound compensation – wide disconnect between perception and reality
• The OECD releases revised transfer pricing guidelines
• US takes steps to tackle errant taxpayers
• Common international tax issues facing the insurance industry

• What CFOs need to know about tax compliance
• Voluntary disclosure in GST compliance
• Productivity and Innovation Credit: what it means to you
• When does e-commerce fall under the tax net?
• What Japan’s tax reform means for Singapore companies
• Managing global tax compliance
• Contracting for profits

• Attracting investments in Asia: the role of incentives
• Tax incentives for R&D: a comparison
• Singapore in the value chain: maximising the benefit of incentives
• Boosting regional trade with the ASEAN-China FTA
• Making a good tax exemption regime better: the Singapore asset management industry
• Thailand refreshes tax incentive to attract regional headquarters
• Tips in applying for tax incentives in Singapore

• How to make the most of your tax losses
• What next after the industrial building allowance?
• Why transfer pricing matters in fund management
• The withholding tax regime: room for further refinements
• Hong Kong delivers a budget to consolidate economic recovery
• Top five tax issues to consider before embarking on globalisation
• Paying taxes: source of income and residency matter

• Sharing information globally to chase the tax dollar
• From income to consumption – the shifting tax balance
• Five ways for SMEs to capitalise on the Budget
• The holding company: an update
• Hong Kong gets serious about transfer pricing
• Innovation and productivity: let’s make it happen
• Crossing the line

• Budget 2010 wish list: learning from the past to build the future
• Singapore – a hotbed for innovation
• New tax rules on mergers cut down red tape
• Widening the scope of section 13(8) tax exemption
• Malaysia’s 2010 budget adopts targeted approach
• A chance for tax reprieve
• When is the outright purchase of know-how not royalty?

• Getting a piece of the carbon trading action
• Public-private partnerships: know the tax rules
• Mergers and acquisitions: is GST on your checklist?
• Globetrotting: managing mobility risks
• Time to pay as you earn?
• Treaty override: a case of broken promises?
• When does the tax axe fall?

• Why tax risk management matters in the boardroom
• Risky business: What can go wrong in tax risk management
• Current tax trends: Shifting landscape, changing priorities
• Driving the tax function’s performance
• US international tax reform proposals to hit US MNCs in Asia
• Harnessing the benefits of data analytics in GST compliance
• Back to basics

• Taxation information exchange agreements – twelve is the magic number
• China casts a wider tax net on businesses
• Malaysia: Withholding tax on “other income” – what Singapore companies should watch out for
• UK budget: one step forward, two steps back?
• Relief from double taxation of overseas service income
• Stepping up efforts to increase the fund management pie
• A twist to the capital divide

• Beating the global credit crunch
• Tips for managing cash flow - a GST perspective
• The human element of economic turbulence
• Liberalisation of tax exemption for foreign-sourced income - practical considerations
• A brave new world: OECD shuts the door on tax havens
• Balancing costs: tax function or tax liablity?
• Hot topics in transfer pricing - an inside view
• Beneficial owner or a conduit - when does it
  amount to treaty shopping

• Managing the global credit crunch the tax-efficient way
• A tax respite for businesses
• Red flags in filing tax returns
• Simpler GST accounting for specific industries
• Why tax residency matters for Singapore holding companies
• Tackling transfer pricing in Asia – is China leading the way?
• Singapore: a tax haven?
• Drawing the line on compensation payments

• The case for deducting retrenchment costs
• Tax implications of breaking a lease
• Maintaining Singapore’s stronghold for foreign investments
• Keeping transfer pricing at arm’s length
• The end of interest-free loans?
• The end of cost plus 5%?
• Make or break: tax issues in M&A
• Shifting attitudes towards tax risks

• Checks and balances in the boardroom
• Accidental expatriates: Crossing the line from business traveller to expatriate
• Major Exporter Scheme: Is the renewal process any easier?
• GST and credit card reward redemption
• Tax savings for that business facelift
• Malaysia widening the tax net
• Tax challenges in an economic downturn
• Corporate structure tax planning: Capital allowance on warehouse

• You and the taxman roundtable: Innovation – the elusive dream
• Year-end corporate tax planning
• In search of the holy grail of work-life balance
• Korea – recent tax developments
• Transfer pricing consultation
• Tax risks of secondment arrangements

• Anti-abuse provisions and tax treaties - a developing trend
• Asian trends in TESCM
• Liberalisation of partial exemption rules
• Finding value in capital allowances
• A fresh look at advance rulings
• Iskandar Malaysia - a new address with special privileges
• Taxation and the telecoms industry
• Case law on section 10E ruling on property letting income

• Tax incentives for sparking innovation
• Grants, sponsorships and donations – beware of the GST trap
• Substance over form doctrine – Asia rising
• The regional business model – customs and trade challenges
• Forex rules – the debate continues
• Hong Kong’s Budget ups the ante
• Fitting tax into the deal-making equation
• A win for the taxpayer on section 10E!
• What’s new?

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