How you handle global tax issues can make or break a deal. Gain a better understanding of these issues with guidance from PricewaterhouseCoopers' Mergers and Acquisitions: A Global Tax Guide When a business engages in a multinational merger or acquisition, dealing with a diverse set of transaction-related tax rules is one of the major challenges to successful implementation. PricewaterhouseCoopers' Mergers and Acquisitions: A Global Tax Guide helps you navigate the complexities unique to these international deals. This invaluable guide focuses on the global tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions to provide you with the information you need to move the deal forward-under a variety of circumstances and in numerous markets. Presenting individual chapters for each of thirty-one countries, this essential handbook provides quick access to the tax information you need, and, as much as possible, reduces the effort required to compare the rules that apply in one jurisdiction with the rules that apply in others. Each country-specific chapter includes an overview of the general approaches to mergers and acquisitions taxation issues as well as detailed information about how the tax authorities in each country apply the rules to various aspects of a transaction. PricewaterhouseCoopers' Mergers and Acquisitions: A Global Tax Guide offers tax planners a foundation of information that they need when involved in international mergers and acquisitions. It also covers many of the finer points of the broader tax issues that arise during planning and negotiation. Many will find this valuable reference to be an indispensable desktop tool in their effort to gain a deeper understanding of the global tax environment.

This book describes the current and anticipated (over the next twelve months) environment for mergers and acquisitions in forty-two specific countries or territories. It provides a general description of the various options available when structuring M & A transactions and introduces relevant tax system(s) and forms (entities) of doing business. .

Series on International Taxation, Volume 82 The economic value of China’s mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market is exceeded only by that of the United States. However, China’s rapid and somewhat chaotic economic transformation has made the task of taxing M&A transactions in a consistent and prudent manner difficult, leading to a patchwork of fragmented rules that are hard to grasp not only for taxpayers but even for tax professionals and tax officials. Responding to this complex situation, this groundbreaking book explores in detail how income derived from M&A transactions is taxed in China. Using empirical studies in order to provide a first-hand understanding of the context in which the tax law operates, the book critically examines China’s income tax regime for M&A and, based upon this examination, sets out reform proposals. In six informative chapters of great practical relevance, the author thoroughly describes and explains the intersection of such aspects as the following: M&A transactions in the eyes of tax law; disparities between ordinary and special tax treatment; eligibility for special tax treatment; applying taxation principles such as neutrality and equity; continuity of interest doctrine; stock acquisition versus asset acquisition; and adjustment to tax basis. In addition to its empirical research, the analysis makes use of an examination of the rules and theories on taxing M&A in other jurisdictions such as Australia and the United States as part of its proposed blueprint for improving China’s M&A taxation. Drawing on commonly recognized taxation principles, this book definitively sets up the normative criteria for evaluating the income taxation of M&A and reveals the fundamental problems encountered by China’s current regime. Its comprehensive analysis of the Chinese income tax rules for M&A and detailed disclosure of how they are both divergent from and convergent with that of some other major economies will prove of immeasurable value to in-house counsel for multinational corporations, business enterprises with interests in China, taxation consultants, taxation academics, and taxation authorities worldwide.