Political and economic factors continue to rock the transaction boat

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Political and economic factors continue to rock the transaction boat

Transactional work varies from jurisdiction-to-jurisdiction with the ebb and flow of various economic cycles, but a prevailing theme across the EMEA region has been that more and more advisory firms are urging taxpayers to prepare for the impact of the OECD’s base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) action plan. Joe Stanley-Smith investigates how this is impacting key jurisdictions across the region.

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