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| Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) |
| 01 What is TaxPlanet? |
TaxPlanet is a worldwide network of independent legal and accounting professionals specializing in tax, both at national and international levels.
The organization is an admission restricted legally non-binding network society among top qualified tax experts, containing some of the best professionals around the world, mainly associated with SME consulting boutiques rather than with Big Four firms. There is no management structure other than for some administrative purposes, whereas professionals may be featured as regional or subject related specialists. The organization is flat, as a network has to be, a self managing society of experts.
TaxPlanet significantly improves the online presence of (international) tax experts. The platform provides a visible and reliable global backdrop, a worldwide network society of tax experts, a top ranked web-presence, and useful tools for easy, powerful and safe group and project work in a worldwide context.
TaxPlanet in a Nutshell
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| 02 Is there a difference to other similar organizations? |
Legal and accounting networks are most often quite big and non-specialized, and although they may have specialized groups within their organizations, not seldom lack a certain level of strength and market coverage within one or another area of expertise. There is often no clear profile, except that they seem to be skilled in everything.
TaxPlanet, in contrast, is taking a focused and tailored approach. This allows the achievement of an optimal size, strength and worldwide coverage within a clearly defined and demarcated area of expertise, and thus also brings maximum exposure and value to every single tax expert listed on the website. In other words, technical aspects (expertise) and a strong joint market appearance outweigh the aspect of referring work to each other. The emphasis on this aspect does, however, not devalue the other. Both is important, it's just a question of preference.
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| 03 Who can become a member? |
Membership is open to tax professionals with a higher qualification in the field of (international) taxation and some years of practical experience as a tax expert in a renowned legal or accounting firm, resp. with a different professional career of the same value as regards the field of taxation. The requirements are fairly strong but essential to meet the quality standards in the international market.
Membership
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| 04 Are members reviewed before being admitted? |
TaxPlanet keeps it simple, Tax Experts who provide evidence to possess the requested competence on the basis of a self-assessment and verifiable information on the internet or other sources, don't need to provide further evidence.
In cases of doubt, further evidence may be requested.
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| 05 What about fees? |
TaxPlanet builds up on quality and high professionalism in tax matters, fees are of secondary interest. Thus, fees are fair and reasonable as compared to other organizations.
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| 06 What about the website? |
The website is operated under a long and well-established premium domain that provides high visibility and top results for all its contents (profiles, publications, news etc.).
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| 07 Does TaxPlanet have meetings? |
TaxPlanet doesn’t provide and organize meetings. Modern online forms of communication and cooperation make physical meetings largely redundant. Yet, this doesn't rule out meetings among members for some reason or another. TaxPlanet is a network of active professionals that usually are less interested in attending meetings that take them days of time and thousands of dollars that they eventually prefer to spend on other things.
There are other opportunities, e.g. alongside meetings organized by the International Fiscal Associaton, but given sufficient demand for meetings organized by TaxPlanet, this mindset could be adjusted.
An international tax college accredited by professional bodies to award CPD-Credits for continuing professional education is eventually going to be established in the next few years. Events would last about 2 to 3 days, corresponding to 16 to 24 credits. But also here, sufficent demand is a prerequisite.
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| 08 Are there rules on how the cooperation has to be carried out? |
Members are free in how to work together and act as individual contractors. TaxPlanet provides no guidance on how the cooperation has to be carried out.
However, where useful and particularly desired, some non-binding guidance could be provided.
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| 10 How to implement the logo on a website? |
TaxPlanet logos are available for downloading or implementing on a website via HTML-Code. Logos and the corresponding HTML-Code are provided on the Logo page.
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