KPMG on Tax Competitiveness

Here is an interesting report on Tax competitiveness from KPMG.

Using the US as the benchmark, KPMG finds that among 10 countries Mexico has the lowest total taxes (taxes include corporate, sales, property, capital, miscellaneous business taxes, statutory labor costs)

The above is the ranking....

Below is the composition of taxes...

The study incorporates 41 cities from these 10 nations.

Read the rest of the report here

31 Best Cities for Business Process Outsourcing Expansion

KPMG in a recent report, recommends 31 cities in key emerging markets that are most suited for IT and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) expansions or in researchrecap.com's words, "leading pretenders to the BPO crown held by Bangalore, Chennai or Shanghai". Once the leading BPO centers reach a saturation point, these cities are likely to benefit from the opportunities of investment spillover.

The full list of highlighted destinations includes 10 locations in the Americas (Buenos Aires, Campinas, Curitiba, Calgary, Winnipeg, Santiago, Guadalajara, Queretaro, Boise, Indianapolis); 10 in Asia-Pacific (Brisbane, Changsha, Hangzhou, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Nagpur, Penang, Davao City, Iloilo City, Ho Chi Minh City); and 11 in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (Sofia, Zagreb, Cairo, Port Louis, Belfast, Gdansk, Cluj-Napoca, Rostov-on-Don, Belgrade, Tunis and Lviv).

KPMG provides the best suited services for each city below.

In Europe Middle East and Africa...

North and South America...

In ASPAC or Asia, India, Japan and Australia...

In the Philippines, we are glad to know that two cities are in the list -Iloilo and Davao.

Nevertheless, there are other service aspects, such as research and development and engineering services, where investment coverage can be tapped or expanded.

Personally, I'm interested with or open to the research and development angle.