Planning

When a threat becomes an opportunity

The Opportunity analysis

Today’s challenge for many company groups is to create value for their key stakeholders, managing globalisation and efficiently exploiting intellectual property. Many of these business drivers require them to devote sufficient attention to pricing “portable profit-generating assets” such as intangibles that may even arise without even being noticed.

Consider a typical supply-chain re-engineering decision in which regional sales organisations replace a country-based structure. Getting it right may result in substantial tax optimisation. Getting it wrong could result in a waste of valuable management time in having to counter tax authority challenges on transfers of, say, customer lists.

Because so many of a company’s assets are now invisible, and therefore uncountable, and the webs of alliances, joint-ventures, and subcontracting partnership are so complex, the need to combine business and tax objectives has never been so great.

How PwC can support you

• Design and implement tax-optimised business models that meet the challenge of globalisation and integrate your business model into your global tax strategies
• Value-chain transformation is a proposition that combines and integrates the concept of value-based management, market and customer management, supply-chain management, transaction-processing efficiencies, integrated systems and tax-advanced structures to address and respond to these issues by designing and implementing new, tax-advanced business models.
• “Effective IP structuring” is aimed at optimising the tax-efficiency of your intellectual property, enabling you to monitor profits, structure intellectual property effectively, make cash and tax savings for the group and implement robust intellectual property transfer pricing policies.
• Reduction of your group’s tax rate by maximising the benefit from differences in corporate tax rates across the globe.