International Trade

Conducting business on an international scale requires an understanding of tariffs, treaties, contract regulations, transportation and logistics. Each component impacts taxes, filing requirements and ultimately bottom-profits. A knowledgeable and resourceful expert by your side can help your company go far.

Our professionals have experience handling the challenges of multi-state and global operations. They know the questions to ask, the advice to provide and the traps to watch for in tailoring multi-state plans. Their guidance is especially helpful for companies in pre-expansion phases. A thoughtful conversation before expansion can help ensure that the eventual tax burden does not outweigh the opportunity.

Corporate Tax Services

• Assessing the tax impact of currency fluctuations
• Branch profits
• Controlled foreign corporations
• Cross-border transactions
• Due diligence for mergers and acquisitions Exchange controls and repatriation of capital and profits
• Export tax incentives (IC-DISC)
• Federal, state and local tax compliance for US businesses with foreign owners
• Financing foreign operations
• Foreign tax credits
• Intellectual property and holding company jurisdictions
• Joint ventures with foreign partners
• Licensing and maximizing after-tax royalty income
• Mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations in a multinational context
• Repatriation planning
• Strategic planning, including issues such as choice of country or legal entity
• Transfer pricing
• Transaction with foreign related parties
• US ownership of foreign corporations and partnerships
• Using treaties to mitigate tax costs of cross-border transactions

 Personal Tax and Employment Issues

• Compensation planning
• EB-5 opportunities
• Expatriate tax services for employees
• Federal, state and local taxes for expatriates
• Foreign earned income exclusions
• Foreign gifts and inheritance
• Foreign Investment in Real Property FIRPTA)
• Foreign trusts and estates
• Pre-immigration planning
• Residency elections and dual-residence filing
• Wealth preservation strategies