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| Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) |
| 01 What is Tax Planet? |
Tax Planet is a global network of legal and accounting professionals with a major focus on taxation and related matters, both at national and international levels.
More: Mission | Expertise
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| 02 How is the network legally structured? |
Tax Planet is a network of independent service providers (network parties), an informal organisation without legal status and capacity. The organisation itself does not provide any services. All network parties are self-governed contractors, no legal affiliation exists among them, each party is solely responsible for its own obligations and not authorized to obligate any other party or the organisation as a whole.
Membership does not establish legally binding commitments or obligations on either side, e.g. resignation from membership is possible at any time without any financial or other implications. However, in due course it is likely to set up and form a legally recognized entity (e.g. an association according to Swiss law), preferably constituted by the people in the pool of experts, what then might bring some organizational changes also in terms of membership.
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| 03 What is the difference to other similar networks? |
Legal and accounting networks are generally very big, take a broad approach, and although they may have specialized groups within their organisations, may miss a certain degree of focusing and global coverage in one or another field of expertise.
Tax Planet, in contrast, is taking a focused and tailored approach. This allows the achievement of an optimal size, strength and worldwide coverage within a defined field of expertise, and thus also provides maximum exposure to each individual member and professional in the pool of experts.
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| 04 Who can become a member? |
Membership is open to legal and accounting firms and professionals who represent a country (tax jurisdiction) in the pool of experts. The pool of experts is open to professionals focusing on tax and related matters, both at domestic and international levels. Read more ...
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| 05 Are prospective members subject to a quality review? |
Prospective members who prove competence on the basis of a self-assessment or reliable information on the internet or other sources don't need to provide any further information.
In case of reasonable doubt, further information may be requested.
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| 06 What about fees? |
The annual fee is depending on the number of professionals that a member appoints to the pool of experts. Read more ...
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| 07 What about the website's content? |
The website serves as an information portal and is accordingly designed and configured. Among others, the site contains a research section with mainly tax and tax-related information and links to information on countries and issues at national, supranational and international levels, an online magazine, and for each tax professional an own section with a brief profile, contact details, and pages for indiviudal publications. As the website is well ranked by search engines and gets nice results in tax and tax-related search queries, it also works well as a publishing (and marketing) portal.
The contents of the research section, in particular the country guides, are compiled in cooperation with the people in the countries concerned.
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| 08 Does the network have regular meetings? |
Meetings and seminars are preferably initiated, organized and hosted by members in consultation and coordination with the administration. They may take place anytime and anywhere in the world, provided that enough people sign up to attend.
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| 09 Are there any rules on how cooperation activities should be carried out? |
The members are independent contractors and thus free in terms of cooperation. Tax Planet provides no guidance on how the cooperation should be carried out.
However, where useful and desired, some guidance could be provided.
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| 10 The research section includes so-called 'deep links', could that be a legal problem? |
According to the current trends in the international internet law, deep linking is generally allowed and riskless for the linker, if certain restrictions (e.g. framing and by passing of barriers on the linking page) are being regarded.
The research section of the website meets all these requirements. However, providers of websites who dislike the link are kindly asked to inform us, so that the link can be removed.
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| 11 Are incoming links welcome? |
Any kind of incoming links are welcome.
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