Global CPA providing compliance services for PRC, US, and UK tax regulations. With over 30 years of experience, we have worked with a large portfolio of European and American clients, providing them with comprehensive solutions for all their tax compliance needs. Our team of experts has extensive knowledge and expertise in the complex and ever-changing tax regulations of these three jurisdictions.
US Tax Services:
Our US tax team offers a full range of U.S. tax compliance and consulting services to individuals, fiduciaries, family offices, and private and public companies. We provide comprehensive assistance for Federal, State and Local Income Tax Preparation and Planning for individuals, estates, trusts, partnerships, and corporations. We also provide US inbound and outbound corporate tax compliance and planning, tax audit defense, withholding tax issues, transfer pricing issues, tax-efficient structuring, income tax provision preparation under US GAAP, cross-border tax planning, and tax treaty analyses. Additionally, we offer services for Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) Preparation, Trust, Estate and Gift Tax Compliance, Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP) Consulting, Filing of Back Taxes to Fulfill U.S. Tax Obligations, U.S. Expatriate Tax Consulting, and Representation before the Internal Revenue Service. Our experts are also experienced in consulting with individuals considering relinquishing their US citizenship or permanent residency, including preparation of Form 8854. We also offer planning and compliance services for Americans and Green Card Holders with ownership in foreign corporations.
UK Tax Services:
Our team assists clients with UK tax return filings for individuals, offshore and onshore companies. We provide comprehensive assistance for Income tax, Capital gains tax, and Inheritance tax, depending on residency and the type of income, domicile and the location of the asset. We offer general exemptions from UK tax for non-residents, or, where resident, to non-domiciled people. However, such exemptions do not apply to UK sourced income, such as rental on UK properties, or receipts from UK pension schemes, etc. In addition, there are several anti-avoidance measures for people who become non UK resident for a short period. Our experts are experienced in handling dividends received from a close company and receipts from life insurance policies and lump sums from pension schemes, as well as capital gains arising. We also provide inheritance planning opportunities to help reduce inheritance tax if taken with sufficient time.
PRC Tax Services:
We also provide PRC tax services, including tax planning and compliance services for individuals and companies. Our experts have extensive knowledge and expertise in the complex and ever-changing tax regulations in China. We provide comprehensive assistance for tax planning for individuals moving to China, including coordination of Chinese and Hong Kong tax positions, evaluation of Chinese estate tax issues for non-Chinese residents holding Chinese investments, treaty-based disclosure reports, evaluation of Chinese residency issues and preparation of “closer connections” filing, and retrieving Chinese withholding tax. We also provide services for preparation of Chinese tax returns for non-Chinese citizens living in China, and state returns if required, preparation of Chinese corporate income tax returns for non-Chinese corporations or foreign corporations, together with required disclosure schedules, preparation of Chinese estate tax returns for non-Chinese citizens and non-resident aliens holding Chinese property, preparation of payroll remittances and summary reporting, and withholdings and related forms, and preparation of treaty-based disclosure claims.
Our Compliance Services:
We provide comprehensive company secretarial services with a direct link to the Government's Registration Office, including company formation, acquisition of a Shelf Company, registering a Branch of an Overseas Company, minutes and resolutions, annual returns, statutory book services, acting as company secretary, acting as nominee director, acting as nominee shareholder, providing registered office, opening bank accounts, striking off.
- What are the merits to basing our Asia Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong?
- How should we develop our transfer pricing policies to satisfy not just Hong Kong requirements, but also those where other group companies are based?
- How can I or my company satisfy the requirements to be Hong Kong tax resident?
- Is there a sufficient case to argue that part of my business is offshore, and so we can make an offshore claim to reduce taxable profits in Hong Kong?
- How can our employees’ salary be structured so as to mitigate tax for our employees not just in Hong Kong but elsewhere where their work takes them?
- For our ex-pat staff, how can they validly exclude part of their remuneration from Hong Kong taxation?
Miscellaneous Tax Services
- Advanced rulings.
- Retirement Schemes – MPF and ORSO Schemes.