Mexico Reforms: A Changing Landscape
Mexico is undergoing deep and rapid change, emerging as one of the world’s most promising investment destinations. An ambitious program of structural and economic reforms is changing the investment landscape…
Mexico Reforms: A Changing Landscape
Personal Taxation in Chile and Australia
The Double Taxation Agreement (DTA) between Chile and Australia came into force as of January 1st, 2014. Accordingly, employees who wish to provide services in Chile for the employer can now…
Chile Employment: 3 Practical Tips When Hiring a New Employee
In our experience, when assisting foreign clients who are in the process of hiring employees, certain questions and recurring situations seem to arise which often slow the negotiating and signing…
HGG Colombia: Colombia opens bidding on two consultancy tenders for Airport
Colombia has launched two tenders to carry out early stage design studies for the El Dorado II airport, a new terminal that the government is developing in Bogotá in anticipation…
Practical Advice on Peru: Foreign Worker From A Non-Resident Company
Peru is an interesting economy with growing mining, energy and infrastructure sectors. Compared to Chile, the Peruvian market is less mature and in many cases has fewer service providers. This…
Chile Employment: Terminating for Unfair Competition
We mentioned in our previous article Chile Employment: Hired a Bad Manager? that there are constitutional rights that heavily protect the employee rights. This makes it very difficult to terminate…
Chile Employment: Hired a Bad Manager?
Companies that enter Chile tend to start up by having a trusted employee set up the Chilean company and represent the parent entity. These employees are often granted powers to…
HGG Chile: Taxation on Payments Made Abroad for Technology and Technical Services
Technology and technical know-how is considered an essential precondition for improving productivity, attaining industrial development and promoting export growth. Therefore, technology transfer is seen as a key element for enabling…
Colombia Tender: Expansion of 3 Airports
Colombia’s national infrastructure agency has published the definitive bidding rules for the concession tender of three airports in the southwestern region. According to information on ANI’s website, the project will…
ATO TARGETING EXPATS WHO CLAIM NON-RESIDENCE STATUS
We have recently had a number of our clients receive pro-forma letters from the ATO asserting that they are tax residents of Australia and asking them to demonstrate that they…