Get an essential overview of indirect and corporate tax rates and understand the compliance challenges that new market entrants can face in APAC.

Jacek, Sylvia and Rob kick off season two of the Value Added Talk podcast with a listener-voted topic and invite colleague Shagun Kumar onto the show to explore the APAC tax environment, with examples from India, China, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea.

This two-part episode covers:

• indirect taxation
• jurisdictional tax differences
• corporate tax rates; trends and how they’re being used to attract international investment
• digitisation and tax liabilities for distance sellers
• compliance challenges
• some of the more unusual taxes that businesses can encounter in APAC.

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Short on time? Skip ahead:

00:01 Intro

05:41 The indirect tax environment across Asia Pacific

07:22 Lack of regional tax groupings

09:03 Indian GST

11:45 Corporate tax rates

15:34 APAC tax digitisation trends

20:04 How businesses are coping with the change to digital reporting systems.

CREDITS

Your hosts are: Jacek Szufan, Sylvia Petkova and Rob Hutchinson Producer: Carlie Bonavia

Theme music: Roulette Wheel by JAM Studio, purchased from Shutterstock Music.

Value Added Talk is a production of TMF Group.