Global tax rate optimization planning

Minimizing the risk of unforeseen tax liabilities

As organizations expand, realign their global footprint, and grapple with cross-border supply chain challenges, they encounter diverse tax and regulatory issues in multiple locations. Unexpected tax liabilities faced overseas have the potential to stifle business or erode margins, while other locations offer favourable tax rules to attract investment.

With planning, the global tax profile and pricing policies can be optimized and aligned with both physical and informational components of the operating structure to minimize the risks of unforeseen tax liabilities and deliver sustainable tax reductions.

Areas of focus may include:

• Creating a framework for the ownership, effective exploitation, and management of intangible assets (brands, trade names, patents, copyrights, know-how, technology and software)
• Establishing a global treasury and financing framework
• Centralizing strategic marketing and sales activities
• Centralizing procurement and inventory management functions
• Setting up shared services centres of excellence

How PricewaterhouseCoopers can help

Our transfer pricing and international tax professionals can provide advice on these global challenges and opportunities, linking with colleagues across the PwC world.

We work with organizations to review the location of key functions, valuable assets and significant risks and examine opportunities to realign these with the preferred operating structure. We will analyze your company’s global tax profile and footprint, identify and develop potential planning strategies and remain at your side to help with the implementation plan.

Contact a member of our Transfer Pricing practice for more information on how to manage your strategic assets.