Tax planning that holds up across borders.
Tax and regulatory advisory helps businesses and individuals with income, assets or operations in more than one country pay the right amount of tax, in the right place, at the right time, and meet the regulatory approvals that stand alongside that tax position. It covers corporate tax, cross-border structuring, tax treaties, indirect taxes such as GST and VAT, personal tax for expatriates, and regulatory matters such as company law, entity incorporation and licensing, and exchange control rules. Early advice is what keeps a structure defensible and compliant when an authority looks at it.
Businesses and individuals with a presence in more than one country face overlapping tax regimes, treaty positions and reporting rules, on top of the foreign investment approvals, exchange control rules and sector licences that decide whether a structure or transaction can go ahead at all. The structure you choose on day one decides your tax cost and regulatory standing for years, and correcting it later is usually expensive.
M2K Advisors is an international tax advisory firm founded in 2014. Our team advises on corporate, international, indirect and personal tax, on the foreign investment and regulatory approvals that cross-border structures need, and stays with you through assessments and disputes. We support clients across the globe, so one team can keep your tax and regulatory position consistent in every country you operate in.
Practical advice on how income is taxed in your company, from routine positions to one-off transactions.
Structuring cross-border investment, financing and operations so that income is taxed once, at the right rate, and can be brought back efficiently, with each position documented and ready to defend.
Personal tax support for individuals with income, employment or assets in more than one country.
Advice on GST, VAT and sales taxes, so that the tax on your supply chain is correctly charged, recovered and reported.
Advice on company law, securities law and exchange control rules behind your entity, funding and transactions.
Support through tax and regulatory notices, assessments and appeals, with a clear view of risk and options at every stage.
The tax and regulatory questions our clients bring to us most often.
Choosing holding, operating and financing structures for inbound and outbound investment, including permanent establishment risk.
Using tax treaties correctly and managing withholding tax on royalties, interest, dividends and fees.
Registration, classification, place of supply and structuring of indirect taxes across markets.
Approvals and reporting for inbound and outbound investment and remittances under local exchange control rules.
Incorporation, capital structuring, governance and other company-law matters behind your entity and transactions.
Tax residency, foreign income and asset reporting for expatriates and high-net-worth individuals.
Identifying and securing the sector-specific licences and approvals a new entity or activity needs.
Duties, tariffs and classification on the cross-border movement of goods, and structuring supply chains around them.
Responding to tax and regulatory notices and audits, and taking positions forward on appeal where needed.
An international tax advisor helps you understand and manage the tax consequences of operating, investing or living across borders. That includes structuring your entities, using tax treaties, managing withholding taxes and indirect taxes, keeping your filings in order in each country, and representing you if a tax authority raises a question.
Before it acts. The best time is when you plan to enter a new country, set up a subsidiary or branch, hire staff abroad, sign cross-border contracts or raise funds. Tax positions taken early are far easier to get right than positions corrected after an audit.
A permanent establishment is a fixed place of business, or certain kinds of dependent agent activity, through which a foreign company carries on business in another country. If you have one, that country can tax the profits attributable to it. Unplanned permanent establishments are a common source of cross-border tax disputes.
Tax treaties between countries can reduce or eliminate withholding tax on payments such as dividends, interest and royalties, and can prevent the same income being taxed twice. Claiming treaty benefits usually needs the right paperwork, such as a tax residency certificate, and a check that you qualify.
Yes. We advise expatriates and high-net-worth individuals on tax residency, foreign income, foreign asset reporting and the tax treatment of relocation and equity compensation.
Yes. Our dispute resolution team reviews the notice, assesses your exposure, prepares the response and represents you through assessment and appeal stages. Please share the notice as early as you can, because response deadlines are short.
Direct taxes, such as corporate income tax and personal income tax, are charged on income or profit. Indirect taxes, such as GST, VAT and sales tax, are charged on the supply of goods and services and are collected through the supply chain. Most cross-border businesses need to manage both.
We serve clients across the globe from our offices in India, Singapore, the USA and the UAE, supported by a network of offices in over 20 countries. We coordinate across jurisdictions so that your approach is consistent.
We advise on the corporate law and regulatory rules that sit alongside your tax position: choice of entity, incorporation and capital structuring, governance matters, sector-specific licences and approvals, and the regulatory conditions attached to foreign ownership. Where local counsel is needed for filings, we coordinate that work so your tax and regulatory positions stay consistent.
Yes. We advise on the approval routes for inbound and outbound investment, structure funding and remittances to stay within exchange control limits, and prepare the investment and remittance reports those rules require.
Yes. Incorporation, capital structure, share issuance, governance and other company-law matters are usually decided alongside the tax structure, since the two affect each other. We advise on both together, and coordinate with local counsel where a filing needs to be made in their name.