Webinars Tax Planning of International Business in the UAE and Kazakhstan
Webinar on the UAE: 28 January – 11.00 Moscow time | 9.00 CET
Webinar on Kazakhstan: 28 February – 12.00 Moscow time | 10.00 CET
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We invite you to a free webinar where we will discuss how to maintain tax efficiency in international business and use the UAE and Kazakhstan for asset structuring
Webinar Program
1. General Overview of UAE’s Tax System
2. The UAE in International Business Structures: Which Functional Companies Are Used and How They Work from a Tax Perspective:
Holding companies: taxation of dividends and capital gains, distributable dividends, network of tax treaties, interaction with other countries; advantages of holding companies in free trade zones (FTZ)
Financing companies: taxation of interest income, benefits of FTZs, interest deductibility and thin capitalization rules
Trading companies: VAT and corporate tax benefits, benefits of FTZs
Management companies: tax benefits, conditions for income exemption from corporate tax
IT companies: conditions for applying the 0% tax rate, VAT implications
Potential VAT losses in operational structures, reverse-charge VAT, and how to avoid losing VAT
3. The UAE for Personal Assets:
UAE Foundations: tax principles and how they are used to structure asset ownership
Personal tax residency requirements and benefits
4. Business Structuring Using Companies in Free Trade Zones
5. Corporate Tax Benefits and Exemptions
6. Practical Examples and Answers to Participants’ Questions
1. International Structures with Assets in Kazakhstan – Key Tax Aspects:
Taxation of income paid from Kazakhstan
Taxation upon the sale of Kazakhstani companies
Case law on taxation of cross-border payments
Application of tax treaty benefits
2. Using Kazakhstan for Holding Foreign Assets:
Tax advantages and disadvantages
Controlled foreign company (CFC) rules
AIFC as a platform for tax planning of investments
3. Kazakhstan in Financial Structures:
Taxation of interest income, accounting for interest expenses
Thin capitalization rules
4. Kazakhstan in Operating Structures:
Trading companies: Corporate income tax (CIT) and VAT, transfer pricing rules
Potential VAT and CIT losses in operational structures, reverse-charge VAT
Taxation of services: Expense deductions, qualification for withholding tax purposes (reclassification of services as royalties), VAT
Benefits for IT companies and tax advantages of the Astana Hub Technopark
5. Kazakhstan for Structuring and Holding Personal Assets:
General rules, advantages and disadvantages of the tax system
Investment residency in the AIFC
6. Practical Examples and Answers to Participants’ Questions
The webinars will be held on 28 January (on the UAE) and on 28 February (on Kazakhstan). All participants will receive presentations and recordings of the webinar
Speakers
Elena Popova
Partner, Global Aim
Victor Kalgin
Managing Partner, Global Aim
Irina Fadeeva
Partner, Global Aim
AIFC and Astana Hub representatatives
Vsevolod Bude
Senior Manager, Global Aim
Evgeniya Aleksandrova
Senior Consultant, Global Aim
Who Will Find the Webinar Useful:
Owners of international corporate groups
Top managers of such companies
Employees in the finance, legal, and tax departments of international corporate groups, especially those operating or planning to operate in Russia, Kazakhstan, the UAE, and other countries worldwide