If you are looking to optimise your taxes in Hong Kong or are planning to expand abroad, you will need a solid tax planning strategy. We are here to help.
We can help to reduce your tax liabilities in Hong Kong by optimising your current tax structure. That includes peforming a tax health check for clients, identifying and mitigating tax inefficiencies and leaks, eliminating the risk of double taxation and more.
Our tax advisors can examine transactions that your company is proposing and advise on the optimal way of executing it from the Hong Kong tax perspective. This includes advising you on restructuring your business models to strengthen the validity of the non-taxable income claim, making use of specific tax rules to lodge deduction claims on their capital expenditure and providing ways to minimise tax liabilities according to the tax law legally.
Both individuals and corporations receiving passive income, such as interest income, dividend income, and royalty income from overseas companies may be subject to foreign withholding tax. They can apply there to use a lower withholding tax rate (or even zero withholding tax rate) if Hong Kong has a double tax treaty with the overseas jurisdiction in question. The application for relief to the foreign tax authority must be accompanied by a Certificate of Resident Status (COR) from the IRD, which confirms that the individual or corporation is a tax resident of Hong Kong. Our tax professionals are experienced in handling COR applications for clients and have successfully obtained a significant number of CORs already.
In personal tax return preparation, we help identify the allowances and deductions you are entitled to and make sure they included in your returns in the most tax-efficient way. It includes: