Tax Law & Strategies
Pay Less In Taxes
Taxation has a direct impact on your bottom line and without careful consideration can leave you in a less than competitive position. You can lower your tax liabilities by playing by the rules of the United States Tax System. Lois has experience in domestic and cross border tax strategic structuring, such as establishing holding entities in the US and offshore, evaluating tax exposures in joint ventures, and minimizing negative tax effects involved in PFIC and CFC entities.
- Stock Vs. Assets
- Buyers Vs. Sellers
- Supply chain restructuring
- Qualified Small Business Stock Exemption
- Tax-efficient mergers and acquisitions
- Understand how the transaction will affect you and the business separately and as a whole
- How will the United States treat the transaction in the United States?
- What are the current tax treaties between the United States and home country?
- A controlled foreign corporation is any foreign corporation in which more than 50 percent of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock entitled to vote is owned directly, indirectly, or constructively by U.S. shareholders on any day during the taxable year of such foreign corporation or more than 50% of the total value of the stock is owned directly, indirectly or constructively by U.S. shareholders on any day during the taxable year of the corporation.
- Can a Controlled Foreign Investment Company structure benefit your company for taxation, liability protection or privacy?
- Passive foreign investment companies are offshore corporations with 75% of gross income derived from passive income and 50 percent of its assets are passive income generating.
- Does your company qualify as a Passive Foreign Investment Company?
- How to qualify or structure your company to avoid qualification as a PFIC
- International Tax Attorneys research into how you can take advantage of the tax treaties between the United States and your home country
What business entity provides the best tax rate for your business
- How will your company be treated in the United States based on what country it is incorporated?
- How will your company be treated in the offshore country of incorporation?
- Tax shelter your monies with transfer pricing contracts
- Like-kind exchanges on business or property sales to postpone capital gains taxation
- QSBS – Qualified Small Business Stock provides tax exemptions on federal capital gains tax.
- How will buying/selling or trading your company stock affect your taxes?
- What tax implications does stock options have on redemption or buy/sell of a business.