Strategic Corporate Tax Planning

Strategic Business Tax Planning, Second Edition is the definitive handbook on business tax planning, skipping the unnecessary and minute taxation details and focusing instead on the big picture in taxes. Organized around business processes, this reader-friendly guide shows you how to optimally put tax management principles to work in your business.

A corporate guide to understanding the basic tax implications of everyday business Organized to cover the tax implications of transactions as they occur through a company's life cycle, the basic principles of tax management are applied through the use of case studies that simulate a variety of real-world marketplace conditions. Value-added and financial reporting effects of tax management are discussed, as well as country-specific tax rules, and cross-border transactions. John E. Karayan, JD, PhD (Glendale, CA), is a professor at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is also a partner in the law firm of Bond Karayan. Charles W. Swenson, PhD (Pasadena, CA), is a professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, where he teaches a number of courses in accounting and taxation. Over the years, financial professionals around the world have looked to the Wiley Finance series and its wide array of bestselling books for the knowledge, insights, and techniques that are essential to success in financial markets. As the pace of change in financial markets and instruments quickens, Wiley Finance continues to respond. With critically acclaimed books by leading thinkers on value investing, risk management, asset allocation, and many other critical subjects, the Wiley Finance series provides the financial community with information they want. Written to provide professionals and individuals with the most current thinking from the best minds in the industry, it is no wonder that the Wiley Finance series is the first and last stop for financial professionals looking to increase their financial expertise.

Business decision-makers need to think bottom line--and that means after taxes. Drawing upon more than fifty years of professional experience between them, authors and tax experts John Karayan and Charles Swenson deftly show managers how to get to the bottom line without getting bogged down in the details of taxes.

"Strategic Tax Planning, Ethical Excellence, and International Taxation Challenges," book 10 of the Series Public Finance, Fiscal Policy, and Tax Management, is a comprehensive dive into the complexities of tax management, explaining strategic planning, ethical compliance, and the challenges of international taxation. It guides readers through optimizing corporate tax strategies, navigating Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS), and understanding the intricacies of nonprofit taxation. With insights into effective risk management and the role of technology in tax administration, this book is perfect for those aiming to navigate the delicate path of profitability with ethical integrity and compliance, an essential read for tax professionals, corporate managers, international accountants, compliance officers, and students/researchers.

After describing the size of corporate tax losses and the policy issues related to their tax treatment, this report identifies three key risk areas in relation to use of losses for tax purposes: corporate reorganisations, financial instruments and non-arm’s length transfer pricing.