Tax Planning for International Mergers, Acquisitions, Joint Ventures and Restructurings 7th Edition

Tax Planning for International Mergers, Acquisitions, Joint Ventures and Restructurings, currently in its seventh edition, is a classic handbook that has again been updated from cover to cover, ensuring its position as the leading tax practice reference for the most essential forms of cross-border M&A transactions. The user-friendly structure has been retained: first, a hands-on overview of certain key tax aspects of international transactions that have broad application (including a chapter on special issues for transactions involving the European Union), followed by detailed country profiles addressing effective tax planning and tax compliance obligations in nineteen key global trading jurisdictions.

What’s in this book:

The expert country-by-country contributors describe each jurisdiction’s approach to the key areas of concern in transactional tax planning, addressing among other issues:

• entity classification
• taxable transactions
• tax-free transactions (both domestic and cross-border)
• loss and other tax attribute planning
• intellectual property transactions
• compensation arrangements
• acquisition financing
• joint ventures
• transfer pricing
• VAT, and
• tax treaty usage

How this will help you:

The work provides essential tools for evaluating, planning, and carrying out international transactions. It is critical for management and counsel to gain a working knowledge of the salient aspects of the relevant tax law in a wide range of jurisdictions and allows for quick jurisdictional comparison of important tax aspects. International tax counsel, corporate and financial services attorneys, and corporate planning and compliance specialists will welcome this unique resource, which fills a significant knowledge gap in a field of broad commercial significance.