OUR SKILLS

The Firm offers the following tax and corporate advisory services

CORPORATE OPERATIONS

MDR Associati assists its customers in the most diversified corporate operations:

  1. The incorporation of joint stock companies, secondary seats of foreign companies, branches and representative offices.
  2. Company transformations, corporate governance.
  3. Feasibility studies and company restructuring operations, including mergers, spin-offs, contributions, company (or business segment) asset deals, company transformations and liquidations.
  4. The study, planning and execution of company takeovers.

ADMINISTRATION, MANAGEMENT CONTROL, CORPORATE COMPLIANCE

The Firm deals with:

  1. Assistance and advice relative to accounting and administrative matters.
  2. Consultancy relative to the implementation of administrative and accounting procedures.
  3. Periodic administrative-accounting audits.
  4. Assistance and advice relative to the preparation and drafting of annual financial statements, budgets, annual reporting and interim or extraordinary financial statements.
  5. The complete management of relations with the Companies Register for filing the financial statements and other company deeds; communications with the Revenue Agency and other bodies.   
  6. Assistance and support in the adoption of corporate compliance programmes, compliance in respect of the 231 Model, coordination with the already existing procedures of multinational groups, training for first line management positions.
  7. Certified accounting audits.

TAX ADVISORY SERVICES

  1. The drafting of opinions, consultancy both on specific topics and on recurrent matters regarding income tax, VAT on national, European, and international transactions, customs aspects of import and export operations, stamp duty, registration duties, tax compliance (assistance in the calculation of taxes, in preparing and transmitting the annual tax returns, other occasional or periodic procedures, tax communications).
  2. The presentation of rebate applications relative to both income tax and VAT; assistance/presentation of Community VAT rebate requests.
  3. Assistance in VAT registration in Italy on the part of non-resident subjects (EU); assistance in preparing and presenting all the declarations and tax communications and in procedures in general deriving from identification for VAT purposes; assistance in VAT rebate applications on the part of non-resident subjects.     
  4. Consultancy and studies for optimisation of the tax burden.
  5. Consultancy and assistance in extraordinary operations: acquisitions, mergers, spin-offs, conferments and liquidations.
  6. The study of and opinions on the taxation of property, trust funds, successions and donations.
  7. Opinions and consultancy on the tax planning of multinational groups.
  8. Consultancy and assistance in the case of inspections on the part of the Tax Authority, at national and international level.
  9. The drafting of opinions, assistance in the application of international agreements against double taxation, rebate requests.
  10. Assistance and consultancy relative to transfer pricing; benchmark analyses with the aid of specialised data banks; assistance in the preparation of country files and of master files.
  11. Assistance and representation in relations with the Italian tax authorities.

A Partner for the extraordinary operations

Experience, professionalism and competence at your service

CONTACTS

REFUNDS

Assistance in the preparation and presentation of income tax refund requests of legal persons (Corporate Income Tax and Regional Business Tax), and of Italian and Community VAT.   

RULING

The preparation and presentation of ruling relative to tax matters, regarding both income taxes and VAT; assistance in national and international mutual agreement procedures (MAP).

LITIGATION AND PRE-LITIGATION PROCEDURES

  1. Assistance and protection for the taxpayer in the case of tax assessments.
  2. Assistance and representation of the client in settling disputes with the Tax Authority.
  3. Assistance in defining tax assessments according to rulings of internal review procedures, judicial conciliation, settlement proposals and, in general, by the preliminary use of the instruments that can mitigate tax litigation if deemed convenient.     
  4. Assistance and representation in tax litigation before the Tax Courts of any order and degree.
  5. The drafting of opinions, appeals and memoranda on any matter regarding Italian, European or international taxes and tax legislation.

DUE DILIGENCE

  1. Verifications of the legal, fiscal and economic situation of the target company.
  2. The drafting of due diligence reports for company acquisitions or for the sale of companies or business units.
  3. The examination of company and tax documents, of contracts and of property deeds.
  4. The examination and study of litigation pending or administrative procedures in progress.