April 20, 2009
The Government has clearly stated that it will enact legislation to amend the Inland Revenue Ordinance in order to allow the Inland Revenue Department to share information with overseas tax authorities, in other words acceding to the demands of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to sign up to international agreements facilitating tax [...]
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April 14, 2009
For many years Hong Kong manufacturing companies have taken advantage of the considerably lower labour costs in other Asian countries, particularly Mainland China. Inevitably the nature of these arrangements varies but a large number of enterprises have established their own manufacturing/assembly plants in Mainland China.
Structured correctly, such arrangements may also reduce the tax burden of [...]
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