• Audit
• Compilation
• Review
• Compliance with all U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and International Accounting Standards (IAS)
• Internal Controls Analysis
• Inventory observation
• Pension Audits

Tax

• Earnings and profit calculations
• Extraterritorial income (ETI)/Extraterritorial Income Exclsuion (EIE) benefit utilization
• Foreign tax credit (FTC) benefit maximization
• Global effective rate planning
• Identifying tax treaty benefits, totalization agreements, and implementing tax savings strategies
• Management of branch profits tax issues
• Multi-state income and sales tax planning
• Negotiations with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
• Planning of compliance requirements for foreign corporations, U.S. subsidiaries, and U.S. citizens working abroad and foreign citizens working in the U.S. including requirements for transactions between related entities, withholding taxes and treaty-based return positions
  
• Section 1248 issues
• Tax planning and compliance in regards to Foreign Investments in Real Property Tax Accounting (FIRPTA)
• Withholding tax issues on payments to foreign persons

Consulting Services

• Avoiding Controlled Foreign Corporation (CFC) classification through strategic use of joint ventures and other ownership structures
• Bank reconciliations and account analyses
• Benchmarking
• Business bookkeeping
• Business valuations
• Community relations, networking, and communications for start-ups/new ventures/growing businesses
• Compensation planning
• Cross border planning, structuring sales transactions, ownership issues, repatriation of profits, and transfer pricing,
• Employee benefits structuring and retirement plan implementation
• Human resources staffing and executive searches
• Insurance and risk assessment
• Litigation support
• Mergers, acquisitions, combinations, and sales
• Outsourcing and bookkeeping
• Payroll outsourcing and tax filings
• Personal and business budgeting
• Planning for expansion of foreign operations, country specific issues and related taxes and credits
• Research and market development
• Software review, integration, and support
• Technology application/solutions study (technology analysis)

International Tax Assignments for Inpatriates and Expatriates

• Home and host country tax compliance
• Assisting with tax authorities and inquiries
• Providing hypothetical tax calculations for equalization reimbursement programs
• Offering comprehensive US and foreign tax planning/implementation to reduce income, social security, and estate taxes
• Tax planning of expatriate assignments
• Planning for tax treaty benefits

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