Business tax advisory

At Grant Thornton Singapore, we have in-depth experience of both inbound and outbound transactions, including acquisitions and disposals spanning numerous countries across the region. We draw on our strong international network to provide you with multi-national tax advice in the context of your business transactions.

We can help you with:

• Buy and sell side tax due diligence to identify and manage both historical and potential future tax exposures
• Sale and purchase agreement and related documentation advisory
• Transaction structuring advice, evaluating alternative structures and taking into account cross-border strategies to ensure a tax optimal acquisition and future exit
• Tax modelling support – to help you understand and improve the tax efficiency and cash flows of your proposed structure
• Post-deal services, advising on a variety of tax issues that arise post-transaction, including regulatory, tax strategy and compliance matters and operating model effectiveness

Our team can advise you on your business restructuring transactions, including divestments, group reorganisations, the restructuring of third party and inter-company debt, or the refinancing of existing liabilities.

In particular, we have experience in:

• Group structure rationalisation and reorganising operating structures including managing taxes on exit or disposal
• Analysing and structuring the tax aspects of new financings and re-financings
• Developing appropriate structuring to effect debt push-down
• Withholding tax considerations on repatriations
• Local interest deductibility and anti-avoidance tax regimes

Careful tax planning is critical for businesses in the current global tax climate. We can assist you to build a robust tax strategy as your business expands globally. Our commercially driven approach helps our multinational clients manage their tax affairs effectively, in a manner that aligns with current and future business model developments.

Our experience covers:

• Tax forecasting
• Tax risk management including tax health checks and consideration of the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting regime
• Cross-border tax optimisation strategies including double tax relief measures and supply chain tax analysis
• Digital tax considerations