In its Spring newsletter, CONSULEGIS International Litigation & Arbitration Specialist Group presented an abbreviated overview of 23 jurisdictions’ legal views on the topic of when courts may disregard a corporate entity to make owners of the entity personally liable for the debts of the entity—what is commonly thought of as “piercing the corporate veil”. Among the contributors…
Read moreThe Notice of Overall Pilot Execution of Transforming Business Tax into Value-added Tax — titled Caishui [2016] No. 36, B2V Reform — was jointly issued by the PRC Ministry of Finance (MOF) and the State Administration of Taxation (SAT) on 18 March 2016. The circular, effective from 1 May 2016, announced the expansion of Value…
Read moreEarlier this year Horizons held its first professional seminar in Milan, Italy, welcoming 100-plus attendees looking to get a leg up on doing business in China’s 'new' market. The event was designed to provide a dose of ‘in-the-know’ information about doing business in China. The event took place at Milan’s Palazzo del Lavoro and was co-organized…
Read moreRecently Horizons was officially accepted into CONSULEGIS, an international network of independent law firms, in-house lawyers and related professional advisors. CONSULEGIS includes members in more than 45 countries and 150 cities worldwide. The group’s mission is to provide its members with legal resources — local and cross-border — for their clients around the world, with an…
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