Corporate Tax Planning and Compliance

Typical services offered for corporate tax planning and compliance are:

Entity and Group tax planning

Structure

• Corporate reorganization focussing on efficient tax structures
• Cash repatriation techniques
• Profit allocation and transfer pricing
• Optimization of withholding tax burden on the repatriation of income to Switzerland: withholding tax planning, procedures for reclaiming withholding tax, application of double tax treaties

Financing

• Receivables / Securitisation: Development of tax-efficient methods to handle receivables in major markets
• Cash pooling: Solutions for excess cash on local corporate level
• Solutions for clean-up of inter-company positions or redirection of intercompany loans flows
• Debt push down and leverage of group companies

Processes and general

• Establishment of information instruments and processes to support group tax planning and compliance
• Optimization of group structures
• Transactions, Mergers and Acquisitions
• Preparation and establishment of acquisition strategies
• Structuring of acquisition projects
• Due Diligence Reports of the tax area
• Integration strategies

Corporate tax compliance services

• Preparation and filing of tax returns for Swiss companies
• Preparation and filing of foreign tax returns, ensuring proper utilisation of foreign tax credits as well as compliance with tax treaties, foreign and Swiss tax law and social security requirements
• Completion of  standard information requests from Swiss and foreign tax authorities
• Forcasting of tax payments according to filed tax returns
• Review of all tax assessments and tax bills and confirmation of payments required

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