MEXICO TAX, LAW AND BUSINESS BRIEFING: 2005 provides guidance on tax and legal issues investors should consider when evaluating a possible company acquisition, starting a business or entering into a joint venture or strategic alliance in Mexico. This report highlights recent economic, legal, and tax developments in Mexico's changing business environment, with content provided by experts at major accounting and law firms in the region. The 2005 edition of MEXICO TAX, LAW AND BUSINESS BRIEFING features expert analyses on Mexico's structural reform, public institutions, and economic development. This one-volume report offers extensive coverage of Mexico's banking/finance, energy, labor, and maquiladora sectors, as well as in-depth analyses of topics such as corporate structuring, foreign investment, free trade, private equity investment, and taxation.

Mexico Tax, Law and Business Briefing: 2006 provides guidance on tax and legal issues investors should consider when evaluating a possible company acquisition, starting a business or entering into a joint venture or strategic alliance in Mexico. This report highlights recent economic, legal, and tax developments in Mexico's changing business environment, with content provided by experts at major accounting and law firms in the region.

Learn what you need to know to conduct successful business in Mexico!This book is a primer on all aspects of doing business in Mexico, with practical examples that illustrate the risks and benefits of Mexican business operations. It provides the basic knowledge that all prospective investors and entrepreneurs in Mexico need, especially in the light of NAFTA. One of the authors is the former CEO and chairman of a multinational, multi-billion dollar company headquartered in Mexico City; the other is a CPA and consultant with small-to-medium-sized firms. Doing Business in Mexico: A Practical Guide provides you with comprehensive, basic knowledge of the pros and cons of establishing a business in Mexico, NAFTA and its implications for businesses, and much more.This single volume gives you what you need to know about: the maquila industry--what it is and how NAFTA affects it information about taxes, labor law, and accounting differences between Mexico and the United States basic considerations in beginning a Mexican operation import/export requirements foreign currency exposure United States tax laws applicable to citizens living abroad . . . and includes five appendixes that supply you with: contact information--addresses, telephone numbers, Web sites--of useful government agencies and journals/periodicals in Mexico and Mexican consulates in the United States Spanish-English and English-Spanish business glossaries examples of Mexican financial statements minimum daily wage rates for various occupations Doing Business in Mexico: A Practical Guide is a must for anyone with an interest in business operations in that country. If you are such a person, this is the one essential volume you cannot afford to miss! Visit the author's Web page at http://www.gusgordon.com

Now, there's a unique resource developed specifically for senior managers and legal professionals tasked with ensuring their offshore sourcing contracts result in increased bottom lines ... not increased legal battles. The OFFSHORE BUSINESS SOURCING SPECIAL REPORT ON LAW & STRATEGY will help you navigate the many legal and strategic hurdles inherent to the offshoring process. You'll stay ahead of changing legislation, uncover effective tax structuring options, and learn strategies to overcome intellectual property challenges.

Why has an economy that has done so many things right failed to grow fast? Under-Rewarded Efforts traces Mexico’s disappointing growth to flawed microeconomic policies that have suppressed productivity growth and nullified the expected benefits of the country’s reform efforts. Fast growth will not occur doing more of the same or focusing on issues that may be key bottlenecks to productivity growth elsewhere, but not in Mexico. It will only result from inclusive institutions that effectively protect workers against risks, redistribute towards those in need, and simultaneously align entrepreneurs’ and workers’ incentives to raise productivity.

Seventeen in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2020 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity.

SPECIAL REPORT ON SECURITIZATION IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC RIM: 2005 is a one-of-a-kind report from the editors of the International Securitization & Finance newsletter that will help you gain a deeper understanding of how others have found the greatest successes in these markets. With in-depth coverage of the more-developed markets as well as insight into the newer entries, the report provides the most comprehensive study available of the region's diverse securitization marketplace. Over 230 pages of articles, research, and statistics presented by renowned editors and successful practitioners provide you with the tools you need to develop successful ABS and MBS deals in this region.

Collection of articles providing an insight in the current status of tax treaties in Latin American and Caribbean countries, and dealing with holding companies and technical assistance, royalty and service payments.

GLOBAL TRANSFER PRICING SOLUTIONS: 2004 covers the major transfer pricing regimes around the world with in-depth discussion and analysis of such topics as proactive transfer pricing management of post-merger integrations, e-commerce and intellectual property. This report was prepared by members of major law and accounting firms and senior international transfer pricing professionals at the largest multinationals. It covers a wide range of tools and techniques relevant to transfer pricing in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America.