Effective Tax Strategies for International Corporate Acquisitions

This book summarizes the essential information which professionals and corporate strategists require to identify issues for investigation when evaluating a merger or acquisition in any of 36 major trading countries.The book's presentation facilitates comparisons of the treatment of acquisitions in the different countries. In addition, it provides insight to the effects that the 'White Paper' has on such areas as administration requirements, customs valuation, tax allocations, double taxation and intercompany pricing.Each country is discussed in a separate chapter written by an Ernst & Young tax executive practicing in the country. Each chapter describes:the relative advantages of branch, joint venture, partnership and corporate structures.The tax treatment of share versus asset purchases, tax loss carryovers and corporate groups.Investment incentives.Financing aspects, including local participation requirements and the deductablity of interest.Karls, John is the author of 'Effective Tax Strategies for International Corporate Acquisitions', published 1991 under ISBN 9789065445971 and ISBN 9065445978.