More and more companies are expanding their operations across borders, creating tax and financial complexities. Whether it concerns cross-border deliveries, foreign employees or branches, at Govers we help you to realize your international ambitions by avoiding obstacles and optimizing tax and financial positions and structures.
Tax aspects in international operations
Our specialists support you in setting up the right tax and reporting structures for your international activities. This goes beyond tax returns. We help you with:
- Navigating international VAT rules so that your invoicing matches cross-border supplies and services.
- Setting up payroll and payroll administration at home and abroad and optimizing your payroll tax structure for employees, such as expatriates and cross-border workers operating abroad.
- Analyzing foreign withholding taxes on payments such as dividends, interest and royalties.
- Preventing double taxation by applying appropriate tax treaties and structures.
- Setting up and recording Transfer Pricing policies in TP documentation, such as in a group and country file (master and local file) including a functional analysis and benchmark. Your business and revenue model is leading in this process.
In addition, we support you in setting up a solid basis for tax returns in the countries where you operate. We ensure that your company always complies with local and international tax obligations in a timely manner. Whether this involves tax registrations, reporting obligations or filing returns.
Financial accounting and reporting
International operations often involve differences in reporting and administration, such as:
- Differences in accounting policies. We help you navigate between systems such as Dutch GAAP, IFRS and other international standards so that your financial reports are always compliant.
- Differences in processing. Whether your records are based on accrual basis or cash basis, we ensure a seamless transition and alignment with international requirements.
- Intermediate consolidation exemption. We advise in the application of exemptions to reduce administrative burdens without losing sight of group reporting requirements.
Strategic tax planning, audits and compliance
International growth often brings additional tax and audit challenges, such as:
- The creation of a permanent establishment abroad in long-term projects.
- Implementing transfer pricing rules to comply with international guidelines.
- Planning and conducting (international) audits, whether a voluntary audit, a statutory audit or a group audit of international consolidations.
- Preparation of financial reports.
Our specialists help you identify the tax and financial consequences of expanding abroad. We also support restructuring and reorganizations to minimize risks and realize tax benefits.
We offer support in strategic tax planning, so that your company is optimally positioned not only now, but also in the future. Think about tax benefits such as the innovation box in relation to internal transfer pricing (transfer pricing), or an efficient design of your financial administration with a focus on international compliance.
Your advantage: the UHY network, global and local
Govers is part of the UHY network, a worldwide network of accountants and tax advisors. Thanks to this network, we can advise and support you not only locally, but also internationally. Whether you are entering the American or Asian market, our network always offers the right knowledge and guidance.
At Govers, we stand for a proactive and committed partnership. Together we ensure that your international activities are optimally structured and that your administration meets local requirements. In this way your company has a solid fiscal and financial basis for the future and you are ready to realize your ambitions.
"Unlike at the really big firms, at Govers you are anything but a number"
Plato Group and Govers
Plato Group, with more than 400 employees across Europe, is the umbrella organization of three leading brands in the field of promotional products: IGO Promo, Clipper Interall and Compacon. Govers helps Plato Group with national and international issues in the field of accountancy, taxation and business advice. Speaking is Alex Manders, director finance & accounting at Plato Group.
Manders knew Govers long before he joined Plato Group in 2022. He did an internship there some 20 years ago and also worked with Govers for his previous employer. "Their way of working appeals to me. We have a highly professional rapport, but humor is also allowed. They always think proactively about how we can make efficiency gains. Unlike at the really big firms, at Govers you are anything but a number."
