Note: This paper was delivered at both the Victorian and Tasmanian Conventions in 2008 (9-11 October and 17-18 October respectively).
Overseas expansion can be a potential gold rush for growing SMEs and their compliance costs. This paper provides an in depth review of key outbound structuring issues including:
- whether an offshore entity/branch is required
- common foreign tax issues to be aware of
- whether your offshore structure is actually an Australian resident
- non-resident company/trust/branch compared
- taxation of profits upon repatriation to different types of Australian structures - effective tax rates for ultimate owners
- worked examples to illustrate how these issues apply in practice.