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Tax

There are tax implications in virtually every business transaction, and the rules never stand still. Our worldwide network of tax professionals can keep you aware of developments that may affect your business, and help you interpret their significance.

  • Comprehensive Tax Solutions
  • Corporate Tax
  • Indirect Tax
  • International Tax
  • Transfer Pricing
  • Income tax
Comprehensive Tax Solutions
Elevate the strategic role of your tax department, and you can have a lasting, positive impact on your company's global effective tax rate, global cash flow management, and, ultimately, shareholder value. Invaluable to this process would be a resource dedicated solely to generating creative tax savings ideas.

Our comprehensive tax solutions specialists in the network are just this resource, and this is our focus: understanding your organization's global goals and strategies, and then collaborating closely with you to identify and implement tax strategies that work best within your organization, culture, and risk tolerance parameters.

Corporate Tax
The Netherlands is one of the most dynamic countries for trade and industry in Europe. Often called the gateway to Europe, the Netherlands is an obvious choice if you are looking for the best location for a pan-European company.

BCG helps and advises companies that want to make the most of the favorable Dutch tax situation. In close cooperation with you we can create the optimal structure for your company, tailor-made from a commercial as well as a fiscal point of view.

Indirect Tax
Indirect taxes such as VAT, GST, customs duties and environmental taxes affect every business. They can all be mitigated by timely planning.

Our indirect tax specialists can help your business by providing advice and help on any indirect tax matter or problem - often producing savings when none may have seemed possible.

Our services cover local and cross-border compliance, planning and contact with the authorities.

International Tax
For all of its complexity, the area of international tax boils down to a single imperative: Reduce your global effective tax rate. The rewards for doing so will appear at many levels of your organization.

The International Tax team of BCG shares this focus. We offer innovative international tax-savings ideas that align with your overall business objectives and the way your company operates. We support these creative ideas with fast, well-executed implementations and diligent follow-up.

Success will mean embracing a certain level of change but we strive to minimize the disruption to your organization and customers. In fact, our collaborative approach has won accolades from many of our clients. So trust the international tax team with a unique combination of skills, experience, resources and tools.

Transfer Pricing
European tax authorities are continually creating new requirements for transfer pricing. The Dutch tax authorities have introduced documentation requirements to provide them with tools to determine whether inter-company transactions are carried out at arm's length and to make transfer pricing adjustments.

Dutch law requires you to supply information on:

  • inter-company transactions
  • the relationship between the affiliated companies involved in the transactions
  • how inter-company prices are calculated
The tax authorities should be able to determine from the documentation whether the relevant inter-company transactions were carried out at arm's length.

The tax authorities want you to provide several documents: a functional analysis, an analysis of the contractual terms, an examination of economic circumstances, an examination of business strategies and an examination of the actual transaction undertaken.

BCG can assist you with:

  • fulfilling the above documentation requirements
  • establishing appropriate transfer-pricing policies
  • performing a benchmarking analysis to support your transfer prices
  • performing a Quick Scan, which enables you to identify any transfer-pricing exposure quickly and efficiently
  • investigating tax planning opportunities for your enterprise that may arise in connection with transfer pricing.
  • their exposure to additional taxes