Representative composite case study
Cross-border tax coordination for a multi-jurisdiction family office
Family office and private assets · Single-family office
Consolidated tax oversight, filing calendar and decision protocol
Representative composite based on recurring mandate patterns. Client identities, facts, timing and results are altered or combined for confidentiality and should not be read as a claim about one identifiable client.
Context & situation
What the client was trying to solve.
The value of the engagement was a single senior tax view across the family’s structure, while local advisers retained responsibility for the jurisdiction-specific advice and filings within their authority.
A family office coordinated operating businesses, property, private investments and internationally mobile family members through separate advisers. The absence of one consolidated view created duplicated work and late discovery of filing dependencies.
The family did not want another generalist replacing specialists who understood local facts. It needed a senior coordinating layer that could maintain one issue map, identify dependencies and ensure that structural decisions reached the right advisers early.
The family already had capable advisers. The problem was that each adviser saw a different perimeter: one jurisdiction, one entity, one investment structure or one family member. Over time, decisions made locally had accumulated into a cross-border ownership and reporting architecture that no single adviser maintained as a consolidated whole.
Thyor’s role was therefore orchestration rather than replacement. Residence, entities, income flows, private-company interests, filing obligations and adviser responsibilities were mapped into one control framework. That gave the family office a way to identify where a planned transaction, relocation or distribution would create consequences outside the jurisdiction in which the immediate decision was being made.
Constraints
What made the mandate difficult.
Constraint 01
Client privacy limited broad information sharing.
Constraint 02
Different advisers used different entity and income maps.
Constraint 03
Several major ownership and relocation decisions were expected.
Work performed
How the mandate was structured.
- 01
Establish the position
Built one exposure and responsibility map.
- 02
Build the analysis
Created a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction obligation calendar.
- 03
Design the response
Defined escalation and decision protocols.
- 04
Govern execution
Coordinated pre-transaction and mobility planning.
Deliverables
The working outputs produced for the mandate.
- Family tax map
- Adviser responsibility matrix
- Annual obligation calendar
- Decision protocol
- Issue and action register
Illustrative outcome
What the work was intended to change.
Illustrative composite outcome: the family office gained a single control point without replacing trusted local advisers.
Next step
A comparable situation to discuss?
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