Transactional Tax Optimization - Mergers, Acquisitions . . .

Neufeld Legal PC: Chris@NeufeldLegal.com - 403-400-4092 / 905-616-8864

Corporate transactions, ranging from mergers & acquisitions to asset purchases to investments, can be made that much more profitable by being structured to legally minimize the incidence of taxation, and at times are undertaken with specific tax purposes. The key is advance integration of tax strategies into the development of the transaction, without losing the core purpose of the business transaction and its intended benefit to the business enterprise.

Business owners can benefit from sophisticated yet practical solutions to the complexities of corporte taxation when structuring and implementing their corporate endeavors. Whether this entails tax-related business planning, including corporate reorganizations and amalgamations, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, structured financing or other tax-driven transactions, our work with extremely knowledgeable tax accountants and financial specialists, has the capacity to significantly advance your corporate exploits. This can also take the form of examining executive remuneration, shareholder taxation and corporate governance ramifications, to provide a highly specific or comprehensive approach to corporate tax planning, from a transactional, operational, structural and/or preventive perspective.

Purchase / Sale Transactions - corporate mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, as well as commercial purchases and sales, have a range of legal and tax components that needs to be navigated in an effort to optimize the particular transaction and maximize profitability.

International Transactions into Canada and Abroad - demand business structuring to deal with tax treaties and differing tax systems and taxation, while integrating those aspects into one's global business structure.

Transfer Pricing - instituting permissible transfer pricing, premised on avoiding (or limiting) the incidence of double taxation that can arise when good, services and/or intangibles are transferred between related parties across international borders.

GST and HST - dealing with sales tax on supplies of most goods and services in Canada (Goods & Services Tax, Harmonized Sales Tax), as well as many supplies of real property and intangible personal property.

Tax Opinions - when devising and implementing complicated financial and tax structures, it is strongly recommended that a qualifying tax opinion be obtained on both the specific facts of the particular situation and the current tax laws and regulations relative thereto.

For knowledgeable and experienced tax law representation for transactional tax matters and tax planning, contact tax lawyer Christopher R. Neufeld at Chris@NeufeldLegal.com or call 403-400-4092 (Calgary, Alberta) / 905-616-8864 (Toronto, Ontario).

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