Administrative Office

An administrative office is frequently located in a country other than that of the parent company, the headquarters office or the country of operation. The role of such an administrative office may be to provide particular services (such as management analysis, financial or other related services), to co-ordinate regional or international activities, or to perform a given function (such as marketing).

A number of otherwise high tax jurisdictions (such as the United Kingdom, Belgium, France and Greece) grant special tax treatment in order to attract the administrative offices of multinationals. In the case of Monaco which has been particularly successful in this regard, not only may the administrative office benefit from favoured tax treatment, but any employees resident in Monaco would not be subject to tax there.