As needed · answers, not reports
Some questions do not fit a service line. How to structure a new entity, whether treaty treatment is available, how much transfer-pricing exposure you carry, or what a local bureau will realistically accept. These need a judgement from someone who does this work, not a document.
Timing
These come up repeatedly with foreign-invested clients. If yours is on the list, we can usually answer it quickly.
Which entity form, where to locate it, how to fund it, and what the options cost over time.
Dividends, service fees, royalties and interest, and what each one requires to survive review.
What the authority is really asking, and what a defensible answer looks like.
Scope of services
Written out in detail on purpose. If you are comparing firms, this is the list to put side by side with theirs.
Deliverables
The conclusion, the reasoning, and the authorities or practice it rests on, in English.
The realistic alternatives with their costs, risks and compliance consequences side by side.
Where the position is uncertain, how uncertain it is, and what would reduce that uncertainty.
What you would need to hold to defend the position if it were examined.
Help putting the chosen option into practice, not just a document describing it.
A written record you can rely on and show to your group tax function or your auditors.
Process
Entity type, what has been requested, and when it is due. One email is enough to start.
We come back within one business day with a written scope, a fixed fee and dates.
One document request list. We work from it, and visit site only where the work genuinely needs it.
Signed output in English or bilingual, plus support through whatever filing follows.
Fees
Fixed, in writing, before fieldwork starts. The drivers below are the ones that actually move the number — we tell you which of them apply to you in the first reply, not after you have signed.
FAQ
A licensed practitioner at the firm. Not a junior summarising a template, and not an outsourced writer. The person who answers is accountable for the advice.
Often yes. Where the position genuinely depends on how a local authority will treat it, we say so, tell you the range of outcomes, and explain what would narrow the range. We do not invent certainty to close a conversation.
Yes. Verbal advice is not much use to you when head office or a tax authority asks why a position was taken.
Yes. We regularly work alongside group tax functions and international advisory firms, and we can report in whatever format they need.
Fixed fee where the scope is clear, otherwise an agreed hourly or monthly retainer. Either way you know the basis before work starts.
Send us the question and any deadline attached to it. If it is something we should not be advising on, we will tell you that too.