Austria: Austria shows its colours as a holding company location

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Austria: Austria shows its colours as a holding company location

June 29 2011

Niklas Schmidt and Eva Stadler of Wolf Theiss describe the features of the tax regime in Austria that make it attractive to holding companies. For example, Austria does not have controlled foreign company or thin capitalisation rules, and its participation exemption system is favourable to international companies

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