Employers that would like their employees to stay with the company for a long time and/or want their employees to achieve certain performance targets, may offer those employees (conditional) shared-based benefits, such as share options and share awards. Employees need to be award of the share option taxation system in the jurisdiction. One has to […]
Hong Kong is one of the most attractive places in the world to generate investment income using securities, such as shares, bonds, funds, futures and options. It is also very common for employers and startup to offer stock options and share awards to employees. As a result, typical questions that may arise are related to […]
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the G20 decided to address intellectual property taxation within the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting project by means of discussing appropriate transfer pricing rules. One has, therefore, to be aware of the potential intellectual property tax risks and challenges that could be made by the tax […]
Last April 2020, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”) issued the ‘OECD Secretariat Analysis of Tax Treaties and the Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis’ (“the Analysis”). The Analysis is a practical COVID-19 tax guidance. It provides governments around the world with guidelines on how to treat unintended or adverse tax consequences that taxpayers […]
