Issue No. 3 - June 2009
The third edition of frontiers in tax is designed to interest, challenge, and stimulate financial services tax professionals by focusing specifically on the tax issues facing the global financial services executive.
This issue includes the following articles and more:
- Adapting to the new era in financial services
- Transfer pricing in troubled times
- Tax hurdles to the success of UCITS IV
Issue No. 2 - June 2008
The financial services sector has been in a dynamic—and perhaps even frantic—mode since our last edition of frontiers in tax. The sector has experienced the impact of the credit crunch on the liquidity of major financial institutions, watched the rise of investment in the financial sector by Sovereign Wealth Funds and has begun to understand the greater financial strength that increasing oil prices have given the Gulf region generally.
This issue includes the following articles and more:
- Loss is more
- Taxing the wealth of nations
- Passport to Europe
Issue No. 1 - October 2007
The first edition addresses a number of these issues as they affect banking, insurance and funds management, and also focuses on certain emerging markets to examine how they are facing up to challenges and opportunities in the current environment. Topics covered include: the debate around principles vs. rules based approaches continues. Establishing a financial hub for central Asia is becoming more essential as investment and trade flows increase. FIN 48 is yet another reporting on the hard-pressed tax director. Tax professionals from KPMG member firms take a closer look and provide further guidance on this complex issue. investment in emerging markets continues to be a hot topic—frontiers in tax reviews the opportunities for investment in China, infrastructure investment in Brazil and Mexico and property investment in Asia.
This issue includes the following articles and more:
- A fundamental dilemma for legislators in tax
- Companies must hedge their bets
- Foreign investors get inside the great wall of money
- REITs become hot property in Asia