The International Tax Centre is a comprehensive resource offering practitioner-authored analysis, transfer pricing information, ongoing news and commentary, cross-border tax forums, tax laws, tax treaties and practice tools including rates and charts from the world's leading international tax authorities all in one, integrated Centre.

The Centre consists of:

Expert Analysis

• Country Portfolios (formerly Business Operations Abroad Portfolios) — Written by in-country experts, these Portfolios cover the tax and business regulatory systems of 40 countries including Canada, China (PRC), France, Germany, India, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and more! You’ll also find an overview of the relevant European Union rules. Each Portfolio provides clear and structured insight into the country’s major direct and indirect taxes and its tax treaty network, as well as the available forms of doing business, and the regulations governing the setting-up and operation of companies and partnerships and foreign investment. Particular emphasis is placed on those aspects of most importance to foreign investors and their advisers – for example, the relative advantages and disadvantages of doing business via a branch or a local company.
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• Global Tax Guide — This comprehensive tax rate guide provides tax profiles of over 100 key jurisdictions and covers corporate taxes, withholding taxes, indirect taxes, personal taxes, transfer pricing and anti-avoidance rules, miscellaneous taxes, and tax treaties. Written by local experts, the Global Tax Guide includes regular updates to tax rate information and easy reference tables of key international tax rates.
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News and Commentary

• International Tax Monitor — This daily service ensures you're alerted to all major tax developments affecting multinational enterprises. The International Tax Monitor enables you to follow legislative, regulatory, judicial, and policy developments as they occur and tracking leading tax developments in key jurisdictions such as the European Union, Japan, Switzerland, Canada, Mexico, China, Russia and Brazil.
• Tax Planning International Tax Review — An essential monthly briefing that provides detailed analysis of key cross-border tax planning developments, country specific news and treaty updates worldwide. The International Review gives you expert guidance on tax legislation, rulings, cases, and policies; and offers insights into solutions for current international tax issues.
• Tax Management International Tax Forum — This quarterly, case-study journal provides expert comparative discussion on a single key international tax issue. Leading practitioners from up to 17 countries explain how the often complex questions arising from a realistic hypothetical scenario would be dealt with from the perspective of their own country. The solutions, comments and analysis provided in the Forum give you detailed insight into the tax law and practice of different countries. This allows you to compare and contrast each jurisdiction with ease.
• International Journal — This monthly journal covers the full range of global tax developments and features analysis and commentary by distinguished international tax practitioners on cases, rulings, regulations, legislation, tax treaties, and more. Also included are the current status of U.S. treaties and a cross-border view of Canada-U.S. and Mexico-U.S. tax practice. The International Journal gives you the latest news, analysis, trends, insights from expert international tax practitioners.
• Tax Planning International European Tax Service — The news, analysis, and data to help you operate in and across Europe. All aspects of European tax — domestic and cross-border, direct and indirect, corporate and property — are covered. Plus, it's regularly updated to keep you informed of every key development in over 30 countries.
• Tax Planning International Asia-Pacific Focus — In-depth analysis of tax developments, legislative updates, and tax planning issues in Asia-Pacific countries, as well as essential tax briefings on the region — all in one informative online service. Covering 17 countries and regularly updated, refer to it for detailed analysis from local experts throughout the Asia-Pacific.
• Tax Planning International Indirect Taxes — For indirect tax specialists, this essential service provides news and analysis of developments in indirect taxes worldwide, including all new legislation. Major areas covered include E.U. VAT (including analysis of ECJ cases), GST in Australia, New Zealand, and Asia, key state taxes in the United States, customs duties and excise, stamp duties, real estate and property taxes, and taxes on intangibles and telecommunications.
• Transfer Pricing Report — A practical biweekly service providing news and analysis on 25 governments' tax policies regarding intercompany transfer pricing, permanent establishment and competent authority issues. Transfer Pricing Report helps companies structure their operations to avoid double taxation. It provides analytical news, feature articles and text to keep you up-to-date on the most recent transfer pricing developments around the world. Each update includes the insights of leading practitioners and detailed information on particular issues of practical interest such as the latest on advance pricing agreements.
• Transfer Pricing International Journal — Obtain the latest analysis to help you minimize taxes and avoid penalties. Transfer Pricing International Journal gives you authoritative commentary and practitioner analysis written by leading Transfer Pricing specialists. Depend on it for the expert guidance you need to prepare a successful transfer pricing strategy.
• Transfer Pricing Forum — Transfer Pricing Forum is an online service bringing you detailed practical guidance on technical Transfer Pricing issues. Featuring Transfer Pricing experts from 25 countries, Transfer Pricing Forum provides unique, country-specific solutions to complex technical Transfer Pricing problems. The Forum allows you to compare different approaches to the same transfer pricing problem across jurisdictions. Transfer Pricing Forum is equivalent to having an advisory panel of international experts sit down and personally talk you through the solution to a technical issue – without the cost.

Source Material

• Tax Treaties Analysis - Obtain full text of over 2500 international tax treaties plus analysis, summaries and the ability to compare key treaties.

Practice Tools

• International Tax Chart Builder - International Chart Builder enables users to specify criteria and review topical and country related information in the form of a chart. There are more than 100 countries from which customizable charts can be created on various topics, e.g. Corporate Tax Rates, Transfer Pricing Rules, Recent Tax Developments, and Capital Gains Taxes for Corporations. Users can filter by topic and by jurisdiction. The generated charts can also be sorted by topic or jurisdiction and can be edited, saved and exported to Excel.
• Tax Treaties Comparison Chart Tool - Build a customizable comparison chart comparing treaties and model conventions.