The industry’s landscape is continuously changing and becomes increasingly more complex across financial
services, causing firms to face a diverse array of challenges and concerns. Corporate governance, risk
management and regulation issues continue to have an impact on the financial industry. Compliance, including
tax risk management, is becoming a key factor at management level. In sectors as highly sophisticated as
banking, insurance and investment management markets, accurate advice focused on specific industry issues in
the domains of direct and indirect taxes is needed.
PricewaterhouseCoopers has a dedicated team of tax technicians offering a comprehensive range of services as
well as tailored expertise to suit the client’s requirements.
- Is a correct tax treatment applied to your income, expenses and financial products sold to your customers?
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- Do you use an arm's length inter-company transfer pricing also in accordance with prudential regulations?
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- Is the correct withholding tax rate applied to your dividend/interest/royalty payments?
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- Do you comply with the Savings Directive?
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- Did you verify whether your dividend income and capital gains qualified under the participation exemption rules?
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- Is any stock exchange tax, tax on the delivery of bearer shares or tax on insurance products properly applied?
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- Did you apply the correct VAT treatment on the services you have rendered and received from abroad?
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- Is the Cost Sharing Association, of which you are a member, compliant with existing VAT regulation so that the applied VAT exemption is guaranteed?
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- Did you already imagine how ECJ court case could have an impact on the VAT treatment of: management and distribution of UCITS?, outsourced services?
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- Do you have a tax-optimised group structure?
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- Do you optimise the notional interest deduction?
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- Is your cash management efficient and taxeffective?
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- Have you considered how VAT cost within the group structure can be minimized?
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- Did you already think about optimizing your VAT deduction method?
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- Did you already develop alternatives for your outsourcing models in order to reduce the VAT cost?
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- Do you efficiently structure your assets and structured finance deals?
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- Have you considered the impact of the future OECD transfer pricing guidelines applicable to global dealings banks and insurance companies?
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- Have you considered asking for an advance tax ruling to cover the grey-zone matters, including for VAT issues?
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| Combine tax expertise with industry focus |
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A thorough scan of your tax situation, advice on how to optimise your group structure, implement refinancing or reorganisation to reduce costs and the tax/administrative burden and analysis of tax aspects of banking and insurance products to develop competitive concepts.
Global business advisers and tax consultants, with the right insight, can develop circumspect and economical tax strategies that will help you reduce your direct and indirect tax liabilities whilst integrating the financial concerns into your overall business operations. |
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| A Create value by working with PwC Tax Financial Services team |
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Our integrated services cover a full range of
business-advisory aspects. Secure the tax status
of your company with our help:
- Confident of our specialised knowledge, we are able to reassure you as to the tax status of your organisation, using our broad and deep understanding of its activities.
- We identify and focus on direct and indirect
tax issues that are of critical importance to
the activities of your organisation, relying on
our already proven practical experience in
these matters
- We provide relevant analyses and practical
recommendations to help you conduct the
operations of your organisation in a taxefficient
way (including VAT).
- Use our thorough practical experience when
asking for rulings and negotiating with the
Belgian direct and indirect tax authorities.
- Our worldwide network is at your service if
you are dealing with cross-border activities.
- We offer timely communication of direct and
indirect tax exposure and innovations
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| Our Financial Services - indirect & direct taxes> |
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- Corporate tax planning
- International tax structuring
- Analysis of the (in)direct tax status of your organisation
- Determining the (in)direct tax costs of your transactions
- Corporate tax and VAT disputes>/li>
- Ruling applications including "pre-fillings")
- Advice on how to structure the organisation in order to cut back on your (in)direct tax burden
- Assistance in implementing deals structuring
- Analysis and structuring of asset and structured finance deals
- Advice on securitisation transactions
- Transfer pricing
- VAT audits and quick-scan
- Development of alternatives when outsourcing is part of your business in order to limit VAT leakage
- Tax risk management
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