Expertise
We are proud that Fisconti can benefit from extensive experience gained during many years working with a ‘Big Four’ firm. The founding director of Fisconti, Jan van Tilburg, worked for 17 years with such a ‘Big Four’ firm of which 6 years as a tax partner in the multinational corporate tax practice. For you this means that you can rely on a proven track record of creative yet practical solutions. This vast experience will also enable Fisconti clients to have access to a carefully selected international network of (independent) top quality tax consultants sharing the same principles.
Technical Support Team
Fisconti enjoys, furthermore, the support of a team of tax specialists to ensure the quality of our services. Fisconti’s Technical Support Team can handle particularly technical, delicate or sensitive issues. This support team consists of experienced tax professionals in various tax fields and is headed by professor J.F.M. Giele.
Expertise areas
Corporate reorganisations
We have extensive experience in advising on tax issues relating to domestic and cross-border corporate restructurings whereby legal entities within the group are either transferred, liquidated, merged or demerged.
Business reorganisations
We advise corporate organisations on tax issues that result from changing the way of operating their business, like changing the production locations, transferring local distribution companies into commissionaires or agents as well as transferring full fledged manufacturing operations into contract manufacturers.
Mergers, acquisitions and other corporate transactions
We advise on tax issues relating to domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, privatisations, joint ventures, intellectual property.
Investment planning
Fisconti advises companies about the tax treatment of anticipated investments in order to be able to make solid decisions regarding the location where such an investment can best be made. The tax depreciation scheme of an investment and the tax treatment of the use of intangible assets can be vital for making the financial projections for an investment.
Financial transactions
We advise on tax issues relating to financing and refinancing arrangements including bank lending, bond or note offerings, project finance and acquisition finance. Fisconti has experience in advising on preference shares, warrants, options, futures, stock loans and repo transactions.
Transfer pricing
We advise on transfer pricing issues resulting from cross-border transactions (services and sale of goods) between affiliated companies.
Corporate tax issues
Fisconti is frequently asked to advice in various Dutch (international) tax issues. Our expertise in this field is extensive, ranging from valuation of inventories or work in progress to tax allowed depreciation of tangible and intangible assets to allocation of profits to permanent establishments. We also monitor changes in Dutch tax law and developments in tax jurisprudence in order to advise our clients about the impact that such changes may have on their business.
Strategic tax planning and tax risk management
We advise on developing the most tax efficient ways in which to plan and structure our clients’ businesses and to control tax issues within a complex corporate organisation.
Tax rulings
We find it important to maintain good professional relations with the tax authorities. This provides your company a basis to make advance agreements (tax ruling) with the Dutch Revenue in relation to your company’s tax matters, including the tax consequences of anticipated transactions or structures. We have extensive experience in negotiating tax rulings with the tax authorities.
Tax audits
Fisconti can offer you significant experience in advising companies during tax audits by the tax authorities.
Tax litigation
In the event that a tax dispute will end-up in a tax court we can also offer you litigation assistance.
