WTS Global

Chairman of the Board: Jürgen Scholz

Number of countries covered: 100+

Year of Foundation: 2003

Founded by: WTS Germany

Corporate Seat: Rotterdam

Firm Overview:

With representation in over 100 countries, WTS Global has already grown to a leadership position as a global tax practice offering the full range of tax services and aspires to become the preeminent non-audit tax practice worldwide. WTS Global deliberately refrains from conducting annual audits in order to avoid any conflicts of interest and to be the long-term trusted advisor for its international clients. Clients of WTS Global include multinational companies, international mid-size companies as well as private clients and family offices.

The member firms of WTS Global are carefully selected through stringent quality reviews. They are strong local players in their home market who are united by the ambition of building a truly global practice that develops the tax leaders of the future and anticipates the new digital tax world.

WTS Global effectively combines senior tax expertise from different cultures and backgrounds and offers world-class skills in advisory, in-house, regulatory and digital, coupled with the ability to think like experienced business people in a constantly changing world.

For more information please see: wts.com

Main Areas of Practice:

Tax:

Tax is becoming increasingly complex and multi-layered. The continuous globalisation and permanent new regulations hold tremendous challenges from a tax perspective. Thus, specialist consulting is becoming indispensable. Tax consulting is the core competence of WTS Global. The broad spectrum of tax services combined with a no audit policy enables them to provide integrated tax advice rather than insular solutions. All member firms are bound to render the full set of tax services as a minimum catalogue on a national level. Their teams consist of specialists with many years of experience in international consulting companies as well as in industry and the tax administration sector. Thus, they ensure a practice-oriented approach which enables them to provide high quality and tailor-made services in the field of tax law. As an added advantage, their comprehensive and international global network gives them the requisite extensive experience necessary in steering significant multinational projects. The tax advisory practice at WTS Global be it compliance or high-end structuring is complemented by Tax Digital which is headquartered at the premises of its founding member, WTS Germany. In 2024, more than 250 experts worked in Tax Digital.

Consulting:

Every day, managers have to make decisions that might have a significant impact on the business success. This is not always easy – nowadays, companies are exposed to dynamically changing markets, increasing competition and rapid technological changes more than ever. Thus, the general conditions for a decision can change very rapidly. WTS Global supports in decision making as well as in developing and implementing solutions, enabling its clients to successfully compete in the market and further promote their company. The WTS Global consulting approach puts a clear focus on the financial sector in the environment of classic CFO functions and all connected tasks. Inter alia, Transaction Services, Financial Due Diligence, Valuation, IFRS as well as IPO Consulting represent core services. The network’s service portfolio includes project consulting as well as co-sourcing of commercial functions. Their team consists of experienced practitioners and specialists with sound economic expertise.

Services in detail:

• Tax Planning (Cross Border and Domestic)
• M&A Tax Consultancy
• VAT/GST Consultancy
• Transfer Pricing Consultancy incl. Documentation
• Financial Advisory Services Tax Consultancy
• Tax Compliance (incl. Support in Audits Executed by the Tax Authorities)
• Tax Accounting
• Expatriate/High Net Worth Individuals/Personal Income Tax services
• Legal Representation towards Tax Authorities and Tax Courts

Key Contacts:

Contact: Karsten Gnuschke, Head of Network Coordination

Email: [email protected]

Offices

ALGERIA

Akram Djamel Zazoua (d.zazoua@­cabinet-zazoua.dz)

AUSTRIA

Matthias Mitterlehner ([email protected])

Jürgen Reinold ([email protected])

BELGIUM

Stijn Vastmans ([email protected])

BENIN

Romuald Avoungnassou ([email protected])

CHINA

Martin Ng ([email protected])

CYPRUS

Nicolas Kypreos ([email protected])

CZECH REPUBLIC

Jana Alfery ([email protected])

EGYPT

Ashraf Hanna ([email protected])

ESTONIA

Dr. Kaido Künnapas ([email protected])

FRANCE

Laurent Leclercq ([email protected])

GERMANY

Karsten Gnuschke ([email protected])

GHANA

Theophilus Tawiah ([email protected])

GREECE:

Stavros Petridisoglou ([email protected])

HUNGARY

Tamás Gyányi ([email protected])

INDIA

Dinesh Kanabar ([email protected])

INDONESIA

Tomy Harsono ([email protected])

IRELAND

Aidan García ([email protected])

ITALY

Giovanni Rolle ([email protected])

IVORY COAST

Sephora Diomande ([email protected])

KENYA

Emmanuel Laalia ([email protected])

LATIN AMERICA

(17 COUNTRIES covered by the LATAXNET network WTS Global is cooperating with for this region: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela)

Key contact: Jorge Espinosa ([email protected])

LATVIA

Janis Taukacs ([email protected])

LITHUANIA

Indre Sceponiene ([email protected])

LUXEMBOURG

Michiel Boeren ([email protected])

MALAYSIA

Thenesh Kannaa ([email protected])

MALTA

Silvio Cilia ([email protected])

MAURITIUS

Mohammad Akshar Maherally ([email protected])

NETHERLANDS

Roelof Gerritsen ([email protected])

NIGERIA

Kelechi Okparaocha ([email protected])

NORWAY

Ulf Sørdal ([email protected])

PAKISTAN

Muzammal Rasheed ([email protected])

POLAND

Magdalena Saja ([email protected])

PORTUGAL

Tiago Marreiros Moreira ([email protected])

SAUDI ARABIA

Husam Sadagah ([email protected])

SENEGAL

Sidy Diop ([email protected])

SERBIA

Bojan Radojicic ([email protected])

SINGAPORE

Eugene Lim ([email protected])

SLOVENIA:

Mateja Babic ([email protected])

SOUTH AFRICA

Neethling van Heerden ([email protected])

SPAIN

Mariano Blanco ([email protected])

SWEDEN

Robert Tranquilli ([email protected])

SWITZERLAND

Dominik Bürgy ([email protected])

TURKEY

Serhat Umut Aydin ([email protected])

UKRAINE

Alexander Minin ([email protected])

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Nimish Goel ([email protected])

UNITED KINGDOM

Richard Turner ([email protected])

Ali H Kazimi ([email protected])

USA

Jared Walls ([email protected])

Raymond Wynman ([email protected])

Robert Altieri ([email protected])

ZIMBABWE

Marvellous Tapera ([email protected])