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Sound tax advice is absolutely essential where international mergers and takeovers, private equity, international tax planning and transfer pricing are concerned.

By devising and developing the right legal structure, unnecessary tax bills can be avoided in an international merger, takeover or private equity transaction. Extra tax advantages can also be achieved wherever possible. Not only does Dutch taxation need to be taken into account, but taxation in other countries too. CMS has detailed knowledge and wide experience in this area. In addition, our tax specialists carry out due diligence studies for tax purposes into Dutch targets, identifying and listing the tax risks involved. We can also advise you on the tax aspects of setting up investment funds. Our work also includes writing or assessing the tax elements of prospectuses.

When optimizing your international tax position, the aim of our advice is always to minimize the total tax burden of the international group, within workable parameters. Advice on setting up international holding, financing and royalty structures also plays an important role here.

The tax authorities require international companies to have a firm basis supporting the way in which they allocate turnover and costs to subsidiaries in the various countries (transfer pricing system). Together with our partners in the international CMS organisation, we provide advice on transfer pricing and assist you in your negotiations with the tax authorities, both at home and abroad.

12/03/2019
Tax­a­tion of the di­git­al eco­nomy
This pub­lic­a­tion aims to identi­fy vari­ous as­pects of the di­git­al eco­nomy and to con­sider wheth­er in­come taxes are the most ef­fect­ive and ef­fi­cient way to tax this eco­nomy. Do we need a re­volu­tion in the...
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05/03/2020
CMS Tax Glob­al Bro­chure
At the start of the 2020s, the roles of cor­por­ate tax plan­ning and reg­u­la­tion are un­der in­creas­ing scru­tiny as ques­tions of eth­ics and cor­por­ate cit­izen­ship con­tin­ue to rise up the com­mer­cial and trade...
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14/04/2020
CMS Guide to Real Es­tate Trans­ac­tion Costs and Taxes in Europe
Com­par­ing real es­tate in­vest­ment val­ues across Europe provides only part of the pic­ture. For a true com­par­is­on, the in­vestor will also take ac­count of trans­ac­tion costs and taxes, which can dif­fer widely...
Guide
03/06/2019
Do tech com­pan­ies hold the solu­tion to tax­ing the di­git­al eco­nomy?
The di­git­al re­volu­tion has trans­formed busi­ness mod­els, en­tire eco­nom­ies and the lives of people around the globe. It has also tested the concept of tra­di­tion­al cor­por­ate tax rules, de­signed largely in...
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06/06/2018
Tax avoid­ance in a glob­al­ised world
This Guide il­lus­trates the on­go­ing de­vel­op­ment of anti-avoid­ance tools on every con­tin­ent. Africa, Europe, Lat­in Amer­ica and Asia are equally con­cerned. In­spired by the OECD and stim­u­lated by European...
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CMS Guide to tax re­gimes in Cent­ral and East­ern Europe
The CMS Guide to tax re­gimes in Cent­ral and East­ern Europe is one of the fruits of our close co­oper­a­tion with­in the re­gion. It of­fers a unique over­view of the tax sys­tems of 13 coun­tries in an in­form­at­ive...
Guide
04/04/2017
Brexit: Groups of Com­pan­ies and Tax Treat­ies
After Brexit, the U.K. will no longer be bound by the EU dir­ect­ives con­cern­ing tax mat­ters and by the case law of the CJEU. This could have a sig­ni­fic­ant im­pact on groups of com­pan­ies that in­clude Brit­ish...
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China tax reg­u­la­tion up­date - June 2014
Bring­ing you the latest de­vel­op­ments in Chinese tax law.Please click here to down­load the table high­light­ing the de­vel­op­ments
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CMS Guide to Cross-Bor­der Mer­ger 2011
The CMS Guide to Cross-Bor­der Mer­ger, along with its ac­com­pa­ny­ing On­line Plan­ner tool, al­lows busi­nesses con­tem­plat­ing a cross-bor­der mer­ger in Europe to quickly and eas­ily de­term­ine wheth­er it is pos­sible...
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CMS pub­lishes Guide to Cross-Bor­der Mer­ger and on­line trans­ac­tion plan­ner
In­ter­na­tion­al leg­al and tax ad­visors CMS have pub­lished the CMS Guide to Cross-Bor­der Mer­ger, an over­view of the re­quire­ments and im­plic­a­tions of cross-bor­der mer­gers. Cov­er­ing 17 coun­tries in Europe...
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11/07/2011
CMS ad­vises Uni­pa­pel on bind­ing of­fer for cross-bor­der ac­quis­i­tion
CMS has ad­vised Uni­pa­pel on its ir­re­voc­able of­fer to ac­quire the Spicers group of com­pan­ies from FTSE 250 com­pany, DS Smith, for ap­prox­im­ately £200 mil­lion (€222 mil­lion) to­geth­er with its sim­ul­tan­eous...
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27/01/2011
High-Tech in China: Op­por­tun­ity and Threat? (in Dutch)
More and more European com­pan­ies are do­ing busi­ness with China. Of­ten, the trans­fer of tech­no­logy to Chinese agen­cies and busi­nesses is an un­in­ten­ded res­ult of these busi­ness deals. This leads to un­fair...
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China Im­poses Ad­di­tion­al Tax on For­eign En­ter­prise, In­ves­ted En­ter­prises...
On 4 Novem­ber 2010, the PRC State Ad­min­is­tra­tion of Tax­a­tion and the Min­istry of Fin­ance jointly is­sued the Tax Cir­cu­lar Caishui [2010] No. 103 to levy City Main­ten­ance and Con­struc­tion Tax ("CMCT") and...
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08/12/2009
Lim­it­a­tions in de­duc­tions for ac­quis­i­tion hold­ings and for­eign branches
Dur­ing dis­cus­sions in Dutch Par­lia­ment con­cern­ing the tax meas­ures for 2010, the Sec­ret­ary of Fin­ance, mr. J.C. de Jager, has in­dic­ated to ex­press his po­s­i­tion with re­spect to pos­sible changes in the...
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