International tax services

LATAX has a core team of international tax resources with deep tax technical, business and cultural expertise in pan-regional Latin American tax issues throughout the Americas. Countries that form part of our extended LATAX network include Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela.

The team provides critical assistance to its clients in the following areas:

• Mergers, acquisitions and dispositions
• Structuring of new operations in the region
• Financing of Latin American operations
• Tax treatment of cross-border payments, including deductibility, withholding taxes, and VAT
• Latin America's expanding tax treaty network
• Regional shared service centres
• Regional holding company structures
• Limited risk service models, including contract and toll manufacturing and limited-risk distribution structures

When change is on the horizon - either across the border or across the world - do you understand how it could affect your business now and in the future? What about the commercial context? If you're not well-versed in local country tax law, every development carries the risk of an opportunity lost, or an unnoticed risk.

Local insight, global reach

PwC’s International tax desks include experienced tax professionals from Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa with deep country-specific tax and business knowledge. As experienced practitioners with local market knowledge, they provide companies real-time access to foreign country tax intelligence - what is driving the changes, what the risks may be, and how to capitalize on the opportunities.

Our R&D professionals are trained to identify and document research expenditures. Your global strategy might call for other options about where you spend your R&D dollars ― based on ownership of intellectual property and jurisdictional relief. At PwC, our team, which includes international tax specialists, can help large multinational companies like yours take advantage of available incentives, consider the effect on transfer pricing, and review your company’s global tax strategy for cross-border structuring. We bring together both your global and local staff to train them in how to devise and implement strategies to:

• Identify available research activities
• Analyse detailed accounting records to find costs that qualify for jurisdictional relief
• Consider existing, and potential, alternative tax planning strategies based on the rules in differing jurisdictions
• Gather, organise, and develop documentation to support and defend the eligible costs if an enquiry is initiated by the tax authorities
• Develop procedures and technologies that can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of identifying, documenting, calculating, and sustaining current and future incentives
• Another plus: Our global tax planning approach offers numerous advantages since it focuses on your key tax objectives. Together we can develop a sound global tax strategy that addresses your global research and development activities.