Alma Monkevičienė: “In real estate deals, tax matters are not a technical detail to be addressed at the final stage. They are part of the transaction structure.”

Real estate deals carry tax risk long before the contract is signed, and it usually comes down to one question: how is the deal structured? 

Whether the transaction is treated as a share sale, an asset transfer or a transfer of business affects VAT, corporate tax and the liabilities a buyer takes on. Getting the structure right starts early. 

Alma Monkevičienė, Associate Partner at WALLESS, takes a closer look in Verslo žinios. Read full article (in Lithuanian) here: https://shorturl.at/zcmdT