Preparedness: Audit Readiness Services

Leading practices

Family offices can effectively prepare for a tax examination by conducting a periodic risk assessment. This can range from a simple discussion with internal advisers to a detailed audit readiness assessment that includes document analysis, interviews, and other data gathering.

The assessment can help the family office identify and quantify potential material issues that may be a focus of an examination. In addition, it can help the family office develop and maintain a system for handling information requests that may be received from revenue authorities.

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Audit Readiness services

​Deloitte’s Audit Readiness services include:

• Identifying material issues that can become the focus of examinations
• Preparing for examination of these issues
• Developing and maintaining a system for addressing potential revenue authority information requests​

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Potential areas of examination

Audit Readiness assessments can address many issues associated with the following:

• Income, estate, and gift tax, including disclosure of certain gifts and non-gift transactions, valuation issues, and review of proposed tax positions reported
• Lifestyle assets, such as aircraft, arts, antiques, watercraft, and jewelry
• Residency issues, including analysis and documentation of multiple homes, related travel, and legal domicile
• Indirect tax issues associated with purchases of goods, services, and lifestyle assets, as well as coordination of customs and border control reporting, and asset registration​

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Why Deloitte?

It’s business, and it’s personal.

Deloitte has discreetly served high net worth individuals, families, and their enterprises for more than 100 years. As a trusted adviser to many of the world’s most affluent families, family offices, and private trust companies, we offer significant experience and integrated service capabilities. You gain access to our global network of resources and a world-class level of knowledge and experience tailored to the unique and personal circumstances of your family office and the family it serves.

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