Finding solutions to meet your tax needs is what makes us tick and elevates our approach to providing excellent client service. By staying at the cutting edge of tax practices, we can provide you with robust tax governance and the best possible tax outcomes, while also meeting your commercial objectives.

Our tax professionals cover a comprehensive range of tax specialisations and have extensive experience across a wide range of industries. In common with many of our clients’ businesses, we also operate across borders. The BDO worldwide network gives you access to tax specialists with broad expertise and deep industry knowledge across South Africa’s trading partner countries.

Every transaction presents tax opportunities and challenges.

The acquisition, disposition or restructuring of a business can create significant opportunities, as well as significant tax exposure. Such transactions expose both companies and individuals to numerous and complex tax issues, often with only a very small window of time to consider and implement mitigating strategies.

From acquisition structuring and due diligence to post-acquisition integration services, BDO’s dedicated Transaction advisory services tax practice delivers comprehensive, partner-led tax due diligence services to clients of all sizes as part of our dedication to a quality business approach and service delivery excellence. With deep experience across industry sectors and one of the world’s largest accounting and advisory networks, our professionals are uniquely qualified to meet the particular needs of our clients. Our service model is built upon a transparent, highly collaborative approach and BDO ensures that organisations have access to the people they need, when they need them.

Our elevated M&A services

Acquiring and merging businesses is a key moment in the lifecycle of companies. There is usually a lot at stake. It can be daunting to manage all the aspects of the acquisition. Tax will be a key aspect of any deal or transaction. It can impact every element of the deal, from raising finance to the corporate structure to efficient structuring of share and asset sales. You will be better equipped to deal with all these challenges if you have a tax strategy to support your overall business strategy.

Our mergers and acquisitions tax team regularly advises clients on:

• Raising finance for acquisitions with a view to maximising tax relief for the borrower and withholding tax on financing costs
• How investors will be taxed on their investment return
• Efficient structuring of share and asset sales, including minimising tax cost on returns to shareholders
• Efficient structuring of all transaction costs, including financing, corporate tax, securities transfer taxes and VAT
• Tax due diligence
• Commercial advice on investment decisions and tax implications
• Integrated mergers and acquisitions advisory services.

Our team work closely with corporate finance specialists to provide an integrated advisory team before and during the transaction process. We will also work with and leverage colleagues across the world in the BDO international network to advise on international and cross-border transactions.
 

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