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International tax

Overview

Deloitte’s International tax professionals help multinational companies reduce taxes on earnings, enhance margins and grow their businesses through a wide variety of compliance and advisory services. Deloitte offers innovative approaches that align with a company’s overall business objectives and the way the company operates. Professionals in our globally managed international tax practice provide a comprehensive range of inbound and outbound tax services, including:

Compliance services
International strategic tax reviews
International mergers and acquisitions
Business model optimization

Compliance services

Tax departments of multinational businesses face formidable challenges coping with the profusion of compliance requirements imposed by the countries in which they operate. The increasing number of rules, more rigorous enforcement by tax authorities and staffing constraints compound these challenges. Deloitte offers efficient, cost-effective compliance services, including co-sourcing and outsourcing options and a proven suite of integrated tax technologies that provide benefits throughout the life cycle of the organization. We help multinationals gain greater confidence in their level of compliance through improved data management and by validating data integrity and accuracy. We help reduce risk, provide more timely and transparent reporting and improve overall compliance efficiency by automating and systematizing routine and repetitive tasks.

International strategic tax reviews

As companies expand globally, their global tax and treasury strategies need to become more integrated, flexible and sustainable. Deloitte’s International Strategic Tax Review (ISTR) helps companies understand the drivers of their effective tax rate (ETR) and potential opportunities to reduce it. We assist with foreign tax credit planning, repatriation planning, ETR modeling, post-merger integration and legal entity rationalization. An ISTR provides a framework for discussion, design and implementation of global tax and treasury strategies that are aligned with the company’s business objectives. Deloitte’s fact-driven, analytical—rather than intuitive—approach helps multinational companies to objectively and methodically chart their tax strategy going forward.

International mergers and acquisitions

International mergers and acquisitions (M&A) continue to be a prime focus of tax authorities around the world. The host of challenges raised by M&A transactions calls for deep experience across a wide range of issues in multiple jurisdictions. Deloitte’s International tax professionals around the world deliver targeted support designed to guide companies through cross-border deals with an understanding of local culture and business environments. Deloitte participates in all aspects of cross-border mergers, acquisition or disposition transactions, including due diligence, structuring, modeling, financing, post-merger integration and reporting.

Business model optimization

In light of today’s dynamic global economic environment and the potential for legislative changes, assessing a multinational’s global business model may no longer be an optional exercise. Deloitte’s Business model optimization (BMO) team provides high quality, customized tax and business model transformation services. We focus primarily on global supply chain and intellectual property planning, seeking to align business objectives with tax minimization. Our goal is to help multinationals integrate their operational and tax planning in a scalable and sustainable way to enable business leaders make more effective decisions on an after-tax basis.

Other tax services

	Business tax Deloitte delivers deep knowledge of tax and statutory requirements as well as a breadth of experience applying them in practice worldwide. Practical, innovative tax services combined with our globally-managed tax compliance framework instills confidence that a consistent approach is followed in all jurisdictions.
	Customs and global trade Our professionals help design strategies and structure global transactions to reduce customs duty payments and other international trade costs, increase duty recoveries and help ensure legal and regulatory requirements are met in a cost-effective manner.
	Indirect tax and accounts payable recovery Our teams of tax specialists, lawyers, and former government auditors and Workers' Compensation Specialists from a wide range of industries work to help you recover cash to operate your business.
	Indirect tax (GST, HST, PST or VAT) Deloitte can help with timely planning and the application of technology-based compliance management solutions, thereby helping to reduce costs, reduce risk, and increase the confidence that nothing has been missed.
	Legal services Deloitte Legal professionals bring a strong combination of tax and legal knowledge to provide clients comprehensive guidance across a broad range of critical business issues.
	Mergers and acquisitions Deloitte can assist your company with effectively navigating the myriad of tax, accounting, legal, regulatory, cultural, and labour issues in cross-border transactions to help manage compliance risks and potentially enhance returns.
	Private company services Deloitte helps private companies, their owners, and individuals with substantial assets apart from businesses they directly operate to understand, plan and execute effective business and tax strategies.
	R&D and government incentives With practitioners who are fluently trilingual in engineering, tax and “CRA”, we have assisted thousands of public and private companies to realize a sizable R&D tax credit.
	Tax management consulting With tax technical, technology, and consulting experience, Deloitte helps businesses meet the challenges of multijurisdictional tax operations, including compliance, reporting and risk management for direct and indirect taxes.
	Transfer pricing Our network of professionals is designed to help companies reduce risks by aligning practical transfer pricing solutions with their overall global business operations and objectives, assist with strategic documentation to support their transfer pricing practices, and resolve disputes efficiently.
	U.S. corporate tax services Our accessible Canadian network of U.S.-trained tax professionals are linked to their U.S. colleagues, creating a powerful team for companies with operations in the United States.