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DAC6 – Best Practices

Paul Sutton Corporate Simplification, Group Reorganisations, Intercompany Agreements

Many organisations – corporates and advisers – are still formulating their policies and processes for complying with DAC6. If you’re also in that position, you’ll probably find this article written by Keith Brockman to be helpful. Keith is VP Global Tax at Welbilt Inc, a US headquartered multinational with annual revenues of over US$ 1.5 billion. …

The corporate simplification hall of shame

Paul Sutton Corporate Simplification, Group Reorganisations, Intercompany Agreements

Here’s one of my favourite quotes, which is from Niels Bohr, the Danish physicist and Nobel Prize winner: “An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.” In the area of corporate simplification projects (which was the subject of a webinar I hosted last Thursday), …

Is your group structure ready for the tax inspectors? I mean, really ready?

Paul Sutton Corporate Simplification, Group Reorganisations, Intercompany Agreements

This article appears in the February edition of our International Corporate Structures Newsletter. If you are a regular reader of this newsletter, and of our regular emails, publications, legal resources and guides, you will know that we are advocates of effective intercompany agreements and related structures for multinational groups. Of course we …

International Corporate Structures Newsletter – February 2018

Paul Sutton Corporate Simplification, Group Reorganisations, Intercompany Agreements

In this issue: Is your group structure ready for the tax inspectors? Transfer pricing in China: an interview with Martin Ng, WTS Shanghai Book review: Thick Face, Black Heart Evolution of an Institution Our top 5 off-the-beaten-path ancient sites to visit in China Intercompany agreement review service for multinational groups To download your copy, …

Tax Technologist vs Taxologist? And Why It Matters

Paul Sutton Corporate Simplification, Group Reorganisations, Intercompany Agreements

We are delighted to feature the following article from Geoff Peck, Executive Officer and Chief Taxologist at PawPaw Taxology. The shortage of good technology skills in Tax is acute, yet there’s little meaningful discussion about the nature of those skills. The industry is badly short-changed as a result. Technology is running amok through Tax …

Sector-focused private discussion groups on intercompany governance and intercompany agreements for Transfer Pricing compliance

Paul Sutton Corporate Simplification, Group Reorganisations, Intercompany Agreements, LCN Updates

We will shortly be announcing a series of private discussion groups on the practicalities of intercompany governance and intercompany agreements for Transfer Pricing compliance, each focussed on a particular sector, and each for CFOs or similar professionals within multinational groups. The relevant sectors are: Aviation Consulting Marketing and Advertising …