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30 May, 2019
Are you interested in getting started with international e-commerce business in Hong Kong? But feeling overwhelmed and simultaneously wondering about the merits of starting an online business as compared to a traditional one...
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27 Aug, 2015
Expanding internationally brings a lot of advantages, but also some disadvantages. The company should develop an optimal profit allocation strategy to ensure the full benefit of being international will be reached...
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24 Feb, 2014
Italy in the spotlight again this week, with (unelected) Matteo Renzi in full flood of (unelected) government-forming. It's difficult to see how he can change the Porcellum (pig-sty) for the better with the dogs' dinner of a parliament that he has inherited from his unsuccessful predecessors, Mario Monti and Enrico Letta, which is most likely to tear itself apart if any real reforms seem imminent. But let's wish him luck.
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04 Sep, 2013
As Pascal Lamy bids goodbye (31st August) to the World Trade Organization, he will regret that he was unable to bring the world's squabbling nations into alignment in the Doha Round; but he can reflect that the playing field of the world of trade is a far more level place than when he took office eight years ago, and surely he can take the credit for much of this.
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11 Jul, 2013
Another week, another superlative for Hong Kong, this time for the nth successive increase in the number of foreign and Chinese companies setting up there. Every year, there are more businesses, more people, more profit, more capital and more capitalists in Hong Kong. What are the limits?
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02 Jul, 2013
The UAE offers a economic model distinctly different from anywhere else in the world: no direct or indirect taxes on personal or corporate income, no forced contributions to a social security or pension scheme, very low import duties (5%), no taxes on luxury goods, de facto free immigration (for anyone with a job), limited interference in labour markets, and unilateral free trade.
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01 Mar, 2013
Every business that possesses intellectual property should look at whether it is feasible to reduce its tax burden through international tax planning. Intellectual Property (IP) is the term given to the legal rights attached to certain assets which are not tangible. Examples are: ideas, concepts, inventions, written works. The inventor or originator of an idea possesses the legal right to exclusively use, enjoy and benefit from the idea.
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10 Jan, 2013
I suppose we are going to have to welcome the last-minute "fiscal cliff" deal in Washington, although the IMF damned it with faint praise, on the grounds that it could have been worse. Yes, some taxes were raised (but could have been raised much more), and yes, a number of important tax breaks were extended, although others, like the payroll tax cut, were not.
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30 Aug, 2012
It's not quite a Damascene conversion, but it's not far off, and it's especially remarkable that Max Baucus (Dem. - Montana) should go to New Zealand to talk about trade this close to an election. Perhaps I'm being naive; maybe his real motive was to tell the New Zealanders to get their hands off the US automotive industry. But I'll take him at face value, and award him a star for at least pretending to be a friend of free trade quite convincingly.
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03 Aug, 2012
Nineteen years have passed since Russia first applied to the World Trade Organization (WTO). But after Russias patriarch Vladimir Putin cleared the final hurdle last week, Russia will finally join the WTO on August 22nd. It is another milestone in the transition of the former Soviet Union, and an opportunity for investors.
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