Lawton has a tax practice and advises clients on pre-investment and post-investment tax structuring, including issues relating to applicable bilateral tax treaties and domestic Chinese tax law issues. We also provide Chinese tax and customs counseling to clients in respect of their inbound mergers & acquisitions and their day-to-day business operations in China.

• Formulating tax efficient structures for client's investments in China
• Restructuring existing operations in China to achieve better tax efficiency
• Advising on PRC tax implications of inbound mergers & acquisitions
• Advising on bilateral tax treaties and domestic Chinese tax law issues involved in cross-border and overseas transactions
• Advising on PRC Customs duty, value-added tax, business tax, enterprise income tax and other tax issues
• Counseling clients in Customs investigations
• Representing clients before the PRC State Administration of Taxation and its local branches and bureaus