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Short, practical notes on the decisions that carry a tax consequence: buying, hiring, moving, structuring and selling across borders. Each one ends where our work starts.
Buying
Buying · 7 min read
Buying a company: share deal or asset deal, and what to check before you sign
The structure of an acquisition decides which tax history you inherit, what you can deduct later, and how easily you can sell again. A buyer's guide to the tax questions that belong before the term sheet.
ReadBuying · 7 min read
Buying a building: personally, through a company, or through a holding?
The way you hold a property affects the tax on rent, on financing, on a later sale and on succession. A UK and European view of the three main options, and what to decide before you exchange.
ReadRegistering
Registering · 7 min read
Where to register a private aircraft: choosing the registry, the owner and the operator
The registry on the tail decides which aviation authority oversees the aircraft. VAT, customs and income tax follow who owns it, who operates it and where it flies. How to make the decisions together.
ReadRegistering · 7 min read
Registering a yacht: flag, ownership company, VAT status and charter
A yacht's flag, the company that owns it, its EU VAT status and whether it charters are four separate decisions, each with tax consequences. What to settle before the builder or broker sets the delivery date.
ReadRegistering · 7 min read
Where to put a holding company: the features that matter and the rules that follow
Participation exemptions, withholding tax and treaties decide how a holding company's income flows are taxed. Substance and anti-abuse rules decide whether any of it holds up. A comparison by principle.
ReadRegistering · 8 min read
Setting up in Dubai or the UAE: free zone or mainland, corporate tax, and what the UAE does not solve
The UAE now has a 9% corporate tax, with 0% available on qualifying free zone income. How the two types of company compare, what substance and residency involve, and why your home country's rules still apply.
ReadRegistering · 7 min read
Selling into the EU from outside it: where to incorporate, VAT, OSS and IOSS
A non-EU company can sell to EU customers without an EU entity, but VAT registration, permanent establishment and banking all need decisions. When an EU company makes sense, and when it does not.
ReadAssets
Assets · 7 min read
Holding crypto and digital assets across borders: ownership, residency and the new reporting rules
Where you live when you dispose of crypto usually decides the tax, and from 2026 tax authorities receive exchange data automatically. How to think about personal or company holding, moving country, and the records you need.
ReadAssets · 7 min read
Art, classic cars and collections: who should own them, and moving them across borders
Owning a collection personally, through a company or through a trust or foundation changes the tax on sale, on use and on succession. And every border a piece crosses raises import VAT, customs and export questions.
ReadStructuring
Structuring · 6 min read
Getting money out of your company across borders: salary, dividends, royalties or loans
When the company and its owner are in different countries, each way of taking money out is taxed differently on both sides. A practical comparison, and the treaty points that decide the result.
ReadStructuring · 7 min read
Trusts or foundations for a family: control, beneficiaries, reporting and succession
A trust and a foundation can do similar jobs for a family, but they are built differently and treated differently depending on where the family lives. How to choose, and where forced heirship comes in.
ReadStructuring · 7 min read
Setting up a single-family office: location, running costs, substance and structure
A family office is a business in its own right, and where it sits decides how it is regulated and taxed. The criteria for choosing a location and the structure beneath it.
ReadStructuring · 7 min read
Where your company's intellectual property should sit, and what it costs to move it later
The country that owns a group's IP is entitled to its profits only if the people who develop and manage it are there. How DEMPE, IP boxes and the nexus approach work, and why moving IP later is expensive.
ReadResidency
Residency · 7 min read
Choosing a country to move to as an entrepreneur: what actually matters
Headline tax rates are the least useful way to compare countries. How residence is acquired, how foreign income is treated and how long any special regime lasts decide the real outcome.
ReadResidency · 6 min read
Residence and citizenship by investment: what they do and do not do for tax
A golden visa or a second passport gives you the right to live or travel somewhere. Tax residence depends on where you actually live, and financial institutions report accordingly.
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