TAX

Inbound & Outbound Tax Advice

• Structure the inbound investments and activities of multinational companies flowing into the Middle East region.
• Provide Advice on the implications of local tax; establish tax efficiency and conduct of business operations in the Middle East.
• Coordinate and manage advice for cross border tax advice to large groups based in the Middle East for their global investments across all asset classes and international acquisitions particularly across Europe, Americas, and the Asia Pacific regions.

International Tax Structuring & Planning

• Advice on tax planning techniques like,
  • Corporate group structure with Tax optimal
  • Holding structures
  • Financing
  • Intellectual property planning
  • Leasing
• Tax Advice that includes implications of expansion into new territories
• Strategize optimizing the tax for the client’s business model
• Repatriate tax efficient profit from other countries to the jurisdiction of the parent company and withhold the tax mitigation.
• Handle issues that arise from the double tax treaty
• Manage the risks from the foreign permanent establishment.
• Provide advice on global tax developments and obligations that include measured taken under the OECD base erosion & BEPS profit shifting initiative, FATCA & CRS.

Value Added Tax

• Analyzing the implications of VAT on certain transactions and the risks involved.
• Provide advice structuring of the supply chain with VAT efficiency transactions, and also develop strategies for VAT cost reduction.
• Provide advice on obligations arising from VAT compliance and review the VAT returns

Zakat & Corporate Tax

• Provide advice on the relevance of implementing corporate tax or Zakat to the organization.
• Provide advice on the aspects of tax with respect to structured finance transactions, including Islamic Finance.
• Provide advice on the possibility of acquiring special tax incentives or exemptions.
• Provide advice on withholding tax and tax retentions.

Tax Risk Management

• Provide written tax opinion to enable the defense of the client
• Review and draft business contracts, including intercompany agreements, for minimization of tax risks from corporate taxing, transfer pricing, VAT, and from the perspective of tax withheld.
• Perform a health check on the tax to assess the tax profile, compliance status, and tax risks that might arise from the client’s business operations.
• Develop a framework to manage tax risk and also a strategy that needs to be aligned with the objectives of the client’s corporate and business aspects.
• Provide tax training to clients for developing in-house knowledge of tax and also the capability to manage tax risk.