Expert Analysis

As companies embark on overseas investment and projects under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), they are increasingly encount­ering tax issues in emerging and developing countries. Michael Wong, Joseph Tam, Alan O’Connor, Karen Lin, and Cloris Li look at key corporate tax issues they may face, and how the SAT is supporting Chinese companies to navigate through these overseas tax challenges.

Yang Bin, Rachel Guan, Josephine Jiang, and Henry Ngai examine the refinements being made to China’s innovation incentives, and their importance as a driver of continued Chinese economic growth.

The Year of the Rooster will soon give way to the Year of the Dog. China begins 2018 with the administration of President Xi Jinping entering its second term (2017 to 2022), following the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in October 2017. At the same time, China's 13th five-year plan (2016 to 2020) enters its core phase.

India’s transfer pricing overhaul expands safe harbours at scale and accelerates advance pricing agreements alongside the statutory recodification of the Income-tax Act, report Uday Ved, Hetav Vasani, and Jainesh Nahar of KNAV

Join KPMG and insightsoftware on June 25 as ITR presents a free webinar on the evolving role of tax professionals and how technology is driving the transformation

Jess Williams, Jimmy Man, and Olivier Hody of Deloitte explain how tax can be elevated from a post-close support function to a value-realisation tool in M&A transactions through quick wins and longer-term actions

Several South Korean transfer pricing cases have established clearer judicial standards emphasising robust comparability analysis and stronger functional and economic evidence. Yulchon tax partners provide practical insights for navigating the heightened requirements

Ichwan Sukardi and T Qivi Hady Daholi of RSM Indonesia examine how geopolitical conflict and economic volatility are reshaping transfer pricing risk and enforcement, with a particular focus on Southeast Asia and Indonesia

Monika Bieri and Daniel Schönenberger of Tax Partner use a Swiss lens to examine how workforce mobility is reshaping transfer pricing models, and why the location of key decision‑makers is becoming a critical tax risk

India’s Finance Act, 2026 introduces a tax framework for foreign companies using local data centres but leaves several questions unresolved, say S Vasudevan, Prachi Bharadwaj, and Loveena Manaktala of Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan

Nicolle Barbetti of Pérez-Llorca explains how the Capitalisation of Companies Incentive has reshaped Portugal’s corporate financing landscape and highlights how binding rulings have clarified key issues in its application

Natalia Núñez and Antonia Valdés of PwC Chile analyse the new bill’s tax implications for a key sector, considering the provisions of the Mining Royalty Law