Japan

Firm overview

Tokyo Kyodo Accounting Office (TKAO) provides customized professional accounting and taxation services to individual and corporate clients. Our highly trained certified accountants, licensed tax accountants and expert consultants have been at the forefront of international tax matters since 1993.

To this day, TKAO continues to match increases in demand for international taxation and transfer pricing services with the highest quality professional services available.

Whether one requires international tax planning or accounting and taxation advice for international trade, TKAO can assist its client with a wide range of services; from specialized APA services and assistance with transfer pricing documentation to indirect tax planning and compliance services including EPA's and FTAs.

Firm overview

KPMG Tax Corporation in Japan has been in the leading position in the market for over a decade. The practice, led by Yuichi Komakine, comprises nearly 600 tax professionals in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya with a total of 53 partners and is strong in the areas of transfer pricing, financial services, M&A, and real estate investment. To support the growth of the local businesses, KPMG established an office in Hiroshima in December 2018. KPMG works with both inbound and outbound multinationals in a wide spectrum of industries, such as real estate, financial services, Japanese trading houses, technology including media and telecommunications, IT related industry, leasing, and life sciences. The firm was selected as the Japan Tax Firm Of The Year at the 2018 Asia Tax Awards by International Tax Review following the win in 2017.

Firm overview

Nishimura & Asahi is Japan's largest law firm, covering tax matters in all aspects of domestic and international business and corporate activity. We have over 600 Japanese and foreign lawyers and employ more than 700 support staff, including tax accountants, senior Japanese and foreign business support professionals, and paralegals.

Many of our attorneys and staff speak other foreign languages and have advanced international law degrees, and others have gained valuable experience on secondment to the best law firms overseas.

We have also established strong working relationships with the most eminent law firms worldwide, enabling us to deal with tax matters involving various international corporate and financial transactions, and to advise both foreign and Japanese clients at the highest international standards.

We are particularly renowned for our expertise in dealing with various types of tax controversies, exemplified by our unparalleled track record of victories before the Japanese courts. Furthermore, we develop and implement creative tax solutions and strategies for M&A transactions, group restructuring, financing arrangements, the development of financial products, and other complex transactions.

Through the enhancement of professional and organisational synergies, resulting from the firm's expansion, an unprecedented level of client service is made possible in highly specialised and complex areas of tax and commercial law.

We understand our clients' growing needs and our fully integrated team of lawyers and professional staff are proud to share the same fundamental philosophy: an uncompromising commitment to excellence.

Firm overview

Grant Thornton Taiyo Tax Corporation is a tax corporation organized under the Japan Licensed Tax Accountant Law with 16 partners and 146 staffs. The firm has the office in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya.

The firm provides the following services:

• Tax Compliance
• International tax
• Transfer Pricing
• Tax Consulting for Company Reorganizations
• Litigation and Dispute Consulting
• Expatriate Tax Services
• Capital Management
• Stock/Business Evaluation Services
• Outbound/Overseas Business Support
• Business Succession/International Inheritance/Family Office Services
• Tax Services for Public Interest Corporation