Download or read book Empirical Study of Transfer Pricing and the Intangibles written by Emmanuel Shola Ayeni and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transfer pricing is an ancient phenomenon with far more consequence in today's business environment. A significant volume of global trade nowadays consists of international transfers of tangibles: goods and services, capital (such as money) and intangibles (such as intellectual property) within an MNE group; such transfers are called "intra-group" transactions which continued to grow exponentially in all international transactions. When these transfers take place, the values of those transfers become significant both to the MNEs and various tax authorities. For tangible goods and services, the values are easily ascertainable and thus, making the transfer pricing methodology less arduous and the framework easily acceptable between the stakeholders. For intangibles, however, the valuation is more complex and the difficulties attendant to transfer pricing are more contentious. It is against this backdrop that this book examines the complexity of transfer pricing of intangibles and the attendant difficulties of the methodology to determining the arm's length principle of any transaction involving intangible assets. This study is an attempt to find ways to placate the frictions between tax authorities and multinational enterprises (MNEs) that Transfer Pricing of intangibles often brings. The objectives of this study are four-fold. First, it compares case laws from the United States and selected jurisdictions - - the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, and Germany to identify the disparities and similarities of legal opinions on Transfer Pricing of intangibles. Second, it identifies any uniformity in the judicial interpretation of arm's length pricing of intangible assets. Third, it examines the focus of conflicts between tax authorities and multinational enterprises. Fourth, it explores any existing legal solutions that may help placate, or altogether, avoid the frictions between the stakeholders while formulating alternative dispute resolutions. The book provides empirical evidence of Transfer Pricing practices and the attendant difficulties by comparing the judicial review of the conflicts between the stakeholders in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, and Germany to show the relative effectiveness, or lack thereof, of judicial intervention. Specifically, the book underscores the judicial uncertainty in the resolution of transfer pricing issue relating to intangibles and explores the use of augmented APAs as alternative resolution of Transfer Pricing issues between the stakeholders.

Download or read book Transfer Pricing of Intangibles written by Emmanuel Shola Ayeni, PhD and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transfer pricing is an ancient phenomenon with far more consequence in today's business environment. A significant volume of global trade nowadays consists of international transfers of tangibles: goods and services, capital (such as money) and intangibles (such as intellectual property) within an MNE group; such transfers are called "intra-group" transactions which continued to grow exponentially in all international transactions. When these transfers take place, the values of those transfers become significant both to the MNEs and various tax authorities. For tangible goods and services, the values are easily ascertainable and thus, making the transfer pricing methodology less arduous and the framework easily acceptable between the stakeholders. For intangibles, however, the valuation is more complex and the difficulties attendant to transfer pricing are more contentious. It is against this backdrop that this book examines the complexity of transfer pricing of intangibles and the attendant difficulties of the methodology to determining the arm's length principle of any transaction involving intangible assets. This study is an attempt to find ways to placate the frictions between tax authorities and multinational enterprises (MNEs) that Transfer Pricing of intangibles often brings. The objectives of this study are four-fold. First, it compares case laws from the United States and selected jurisdictions - - the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, and Germany to identify the disparities and similarities of legal opinions on Transfer Pricing of intangibles. Second, it identifies any uniformity in the judicial interpretation of arm's length pricing of intangible assets. Third, it examines the focus of conflicts between tax authorities and multinational enterprises. Fourth, it explores any existing legal solutions that may help placate, or altogether, avoid the frictions between the stakeholders while formulating alternative dispute resolutions. The book provides empirical evidence of Transfer Pricing practices and the attendant difficulties by comparing the judicial review of the conflicts between the stakeholders in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, and Germany to show the relative effectiveness, or lack thereof, of judicial intervention. Specifically, the book underscores the judicial uncertainty in the resolution of transfer pricing issue relating to intangibles and explores the use of augmented APAs as alternative resolution of Transfer Pricing issues between the stakeholders.

Download or read book Empirical Study of Transfer Pricing and the Intangibles written by Emmanuel Shola Ayeni Ph D and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transfer pricing is an ancient phenomenon with far more consequence in today's business environment. A significant volume of global trade nowadays consists of international transfers of tangibles: goods and services, capital (such as money) and intangibles (such as intellectual property) within an MNE group; such transfers are called "intra-group" transactions which continued to grow exponentially in all international transactions. When these transfers take place, the values of those transfers become significant both to the MNEs and various tax authorities. For tangible goods and services, the values are easily ascertainable and thus, making the transfer pricing methodology less arduous and the framework easily acceptable between the stakeholders. For intangibles, however, the valuation is more complex and the difficulties attendant to transfer pricing are more contentious. It is against this backdrop that this book examines the complexity of transfer pricing of intangibles and the attendant difficulties of the methodology to determining the arm's length principle of any transaction involving intangible assets. This study is an attempt to find ways to placate the frictions between tax authorities and multinational enterprises (MNEs) that Transfer Pricing of intangibles often brings. The objectives of this study are four-fold. First, it compares case laws from the United States and selected jurisdictions - - the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, and Germany to identify the disparities and similarities of legal opinions on Transfer Pricing of intangibles. Second, it identifies any uniformity in the judicial interpretation of arm's length pricing of intangible assets. Third, it examines the focus of conflicts between tax authorities and multinational enterprises. Fourth, it explores any existing legal solutions that may help placate, or altogether, avoid the frictions between the stakeholders while formulating alternative dispute resolutions. The book provides empirical evidence of Transfer Pricing practices and the attendant difficulties by comparing the judicial review of the conflicts between the stakeholders in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, and Germany to show the relative effectiveness, or lack thereof, of judicial intervention. Specifically, the book underscores the judicial uncertainty in the resolution of transfer pricing issue relating to intangibles and explores the use of augmented APAs as alternative resolution of Transfer Pricing issues between the stakeholders.

Download or read book The Transfer Pricing of Intangibles written by Michelle Markham and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transactions involving intellectual property play an increasingly significant role in economic activity at every level from global to local, with particular challenges for taxation and revenue authorities. Moreover, the manifold complexities associated with identifying, valuing and transferring intangibles make this an issue requiring a creative review of existing transfer pricing methodologies and techniques. In this ground-breaking new study, Michelle Markham offers an in-depth examination of attitudes at the forefront of this rapidly evolving area of taxation law, focusing her work on a comparative analysis of the US, OECD, and Australian perspectives on the transfer pricing of intangible assets. The Transfer Pricing of Intangibles not only highlights the current problems encountered in inter-affiliate transactions of intangible property, but also attempts to offer a variety of solutions to these problems. Among the issues explored are the following: how the tax treatment of intangible in the context of transfer pricing has become a major international tax concern;definitional issues which are vital to an understanding of transfer pricing;application of the arm's length principle to intangible asset transactions;determination of legal and economic ownership of group intangible assets;intangible asset valuation and transfer;transfer pricing methodologies;global formulary apportionment;transfer pricing documentation requirements;penalties for non-compliance;resolution of transfer pricing disputes; and,advance pricing agreements Revenue authorities, multinational enterprise executives, and tax practitioners around the world will greatly appreciate the recommendations and solutions proposed in this knowledgeable and thoughtful book. Its acute sense of the opportunities and pitfalls of an ever-more-complex area of economic activity place it in a category of its own, of inestimable benefit to interested parties.

Download or read book Income Shifting from Transfer Pricing written by Michael McDonald and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper updates, modifies, and extends research by Grubert (2003) to investigate income shifting from intercompany transfer pricing. The analysis is based on theoretical and regression models developed in Grubert (2003). The models are modified slightly to capture the effects of "real" intercompany tangible, intangible, and services transactions (as opposed to interest 'income stripping' through intercompany or interbranch debt), and extended to incorporate data relating to cost sharing arrangements. Although some caution is required in interpreting the transfer pricing implications from the regression results, the empirical analysis generally supports concerns about potential non-arm's length income shifting under current transfer pricing rules.

Download or read book Transfer Pricing and Intangibles written by Michael Lang and published by Linde Verlag GmbH. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transfer pricing treatment of intangibles: Issues und developments In recent decades, intangibles have become one of the most relevant success factors for Multinational Enterprises (MNEs). Along with the increasing importance of intangibles for economies, their tax treatment has also been under scrutiny which includes inter alia respective transfer pricing issues. MNEs are seeking for the best ways to optimize their business arrangements with the related intangibles while, at the same time, getting the most tax-efficient treatment. On the other hand, tax authorities have become increasingly concerned with the ease that intangibles can be used in aggressive planning. These concerns have been noticed and addressed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development which presented its main findings with respect to transfer pricing aspects of intangibles in Action 8 of the BEPS Project in 2015 and in the 2017 OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines. This book is based on the outcomes of the presentations and discussions held during the WU Transfer Pricing Symposium, ‘Transfer Pricing and Intangibles: Current Developments, Relevant Issues and Possible Solutions’, that took place in October 2018 at the WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. The publication discusses the most important issues and recent developments related to transfer pricing treatment of intangibles. Starting with the definition of intangibles, it further deals with topics such as appropriate attribution of intangible-related profits, structuring of intangibles in MNEs, and proper valuation of intangibles. The authors, apart from providing a theoretical background to the discussed issues, also present case studies that show how certain issues can be approached in practice. Every chapter ends with a summary of the discussions held during the panels of the Transfer Pricing Symposium in which representatives of tax administrations, multinationals, and tax advisories presented their opinions on the issues at stake.

Download or read book A Study of Intercompany Pricing written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study is divided into four parts; part I gives the history of Sec. 482 and the evolution of issues leading to the 1986 ammendments, part II discusses Congress' 1986 changes to Sec. 482, part III analyzes economic theories for implementing Sec. 482, amd part III examines cost sharing arrangements.

Download or read book Intangibles in the World of Transfer Pricing written by Björn Heidecke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intangible assets are becoming increasingly important as value drivers for multinational companies. It is a strategic question how to allocate intangibles within the multinational corporation. It needs to be defined by whom and under which conditions they can be utilized. Typical IP migration models such as licensing, joint development and transferring are becoming a focal point within tax audits across the globe. Hence,defining an intangibles system that fulfils the tax requirements is of utmost strategic importance for multinational corporations. A central question is how to value intangibles in line with the arm’s length principle as is required internationally for transfer pricing purposes. Edited by leading transfer pricing and valuation experts in Europe, this comprehensive book offers practitioners an effective road map for identifying, valuing and implementing intangibles for transfer pricing purposes under consideration of both the OECD and local perspectives. It is therefore a must-have book for transfer pricing and valuation practitioners on all levels of experience. The book starts with an introduction to the role of intangibles in the world of transfer pricing including typical intangibles migration models. It describes common intangible assets across all types of industries, including e.g. automotive, consumer goods and software.Using several numerical examples, the book then covers state-of-the-art valuation methods including how to apply these methods in practice in a way consistent with the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines. The different country chapters written by local experts provide country-specific guidance on the legal framework concerning intangible assets from a transfer pricing and valuation perspective. Finally, the book covers practical advice on the implementation of an intangible assets system. This book offers invaluable guidance to practitioners seeking tools to apply the arm’s length principle in the world of intangibles.

Download or read book International Transfer Pricing written by Monica Boos and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The valuation of intangibles as they are transferred from country to country but within multinational enterprise networks is major issue in taxation.

Download or read book Tax Transfer Pricing written by Andrea Musselli and published by Gruppo 24 Ore. This book was released on 2022-09-15T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book pays attention to the tax treatment of transfer pricing in a single perspective of analysis since the most important principles (the arm’s length -ALP- i.e. conditions that independent parties would share, and the sale country) are agreed worldwide. They must be applied in the same way regardless of the economic sector or industry. A country survey overlooks the most important issue of the fiscal problem, that is, the ability to project a unitary policy in compliance with the ALP (or with the sale country principle) and that should be audited by one sole (only theoretically) existing tax authority. The practical part and examples disclose how rules should be/have been applied, how legal proceedings can arise/arose regarding their application , how they were decided if litigation truly occurred, and finally the author’s motivated opinion with special focus on which is “the breaking point” of a specific analysis. The term “breaking point” is used to explain which can be the factual and/or the interpretative change that is able to modify such analysis and thus the solution. Extract from the preface of prof. Reuven Avi-Yonah: “this book is a must read for any serious student of the topic and an important contribution to understanding how the ALP is applied today as well as to how it should be applied. It is an invaluable contribution and should be read widely by both tax lawyers and accountants and by tax policy makers”.

Download or read book Eurasian Business and Economics Perspectives written by Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-26 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBES conferences have been intellectual hub for academic discussion in economics, finance, and business fields and provide network opportunities for participants to make long lasting academic cooperation. This is the 24th volume of the Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics (EBES’s official proceeding series) which includes selected papers from the 37th EBES Conference – Berlin. The conference was jointly organized with the GLO (Global Labour Organization, a global, independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization based in Germany) with the support of the Istanbul Economic Research Association and in collaboration with the FOM University of Applied Sciences (Germany). Due to COVID-19, the conference presentation mode was virtual. In the conference, 177 papers by 379 colleagues from 54 countries were presented. Both theoretical and empirical papers in this volume cover diverse areas of business, economics, and finance from many different regions. Therefore, it provides a great opportunity to colleagues, professionals, and students to catch up with the most recent studies in different fields and empirical findings on many countries and regions.

Download or read book Transfer Pricing and Corporate Taxation written by Elizabeth King and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-10-11 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National tax authorities individually determine multinational ?rms’ country-speci?c tax liabilities by applying one or more sanctioned transfer pricing methodologies. These methodologies are founded on basic assumptions about market structure and ?rm behavior that are rarely empirically valid. Moreover, for the most part, the transfer pricing methodologies now in vogue were developed before the Internet became a dominant factor in the world economy, and hedge and private equity funds transformed ?nancial and commodities markets. For these reasons, multinational ?rms are unable to accurately anticipate their tax liabilities in individual countries, and remain at risk of double taxation. Uncertainties in corporate tax liability are extremely costly, both for individual corporations and from an economy-wide perspective. Firms pay exorbitant fees to have tax attorneys, accountants and economists prepare the documentation required by tax authorities to substantiate their intercompany pricing practices and defend their tax positions on audit. Corporate tax liabilities are also potentially much higher than they would be under a more transparent and predictable transfer pricing regime (due to the potential for double taxation and penalties), and investors’ returns are reduced accordingly. The FASB’s Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes (released on July 13, 2006), has motivated multinational ?rms to increase their reserves substantially (in many cases at the insistence of their au- tors), reducing the total funds available for productive investment. 1 The current transfer pricing regimes are embodied in the OECD Guidelines, individual OECD member countries’ interpretations thereof, the U. S.

Download or read book Transfer Pricing and Business Restructurings written by Anuschka Bakker and published by IBFD. This book was released on 2009 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the main tax issues that arise when business restructurings take place. It provides fundamental information about the drivers of business restructurings and business models, examines the application of Art. 9 of the OECD Model Convention, and considers not only the direct tax issues in business restructuring, but also VAT and customs duties. It gives practical insights into the tax accounting treatment of business restructurings, OECD work in progress and the effect of the EU tax system, and includes a case study concerning the restructuring of a manufacturing operation, which is analysed from the perspective of key industrial jurisdictions, along with an examination of current practice.

Download or read book International Transfer Pricing in Asia Pacific written by J. Li and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-09-08 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the management of business activity by companies operating in more than one country, the complex array of issues and practices that characterize their movements of assets between constituent company units centres around what has become known as international transfer payments. This book, based on extensive research, explains the nature of the subject, presents the latest data on the practice of transfer payments in three Asia Pacific countries; the regulations, attitudes and conditions which form the context in which they take place; and the events which are most likely to precipitate the intervention of the authorities and lead to investigation and audit.

Download or read book Fundamentals of International Transfer Pricing in Law and Economics written by Wolfgang Schön and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The taxation of multinational corporate groups has become a major concern in the academic and political debate on the future of international taxation. In particular the arm’s length standard for the determination of transfer prices is under increasing pressure. Many countries and international bodies are now taking a closer look at the use of transfer prices for profit shifting and are exploring alternative mechanisms such as formulary apportionment for the allocation of taxing rights. With regard to this topic, this volume is the first to offer a concise analysis of transfer pricing in the international tax arena from an interdisciplinary legal and economic point of view. Fundamentals such as the efficient allocation of resources within multi-unit firms and distortions between different goals of transfer pricing as well as different aspects of it in tax and corporate law, the traditional OECD approach and practical aspects concerning intangibles, capital and risk allocation are covered by outstanding authors.

Download or read book Transfer Pricing and Valuation in Corporate Taxation written by Elizabeth King and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transfer Pricing and Valuation in Corporate Taxation analyzes the disparities between both federal statutes and regulations, and r- ulations and administrative practice, in a highly controversial area of corporate tax policy: intra-company transfer pricing for tax p- poses. It addresses issues that often mean millions of dollars to in- vidual corporations, and a significant fraction of the federal gove- ment’s revenue base. These disparities between law, regulations, and administrative practice are concerning on a number of grounds. First, they - pose considerable economic costs by inducing corporations to engage in a variety of “rent-seeking” activities designed to reduce their - pected tax liabilities, and by requiring the IRS to devote still more to enforcement efforts that are very often futile. Second, they are in- ; herently undemocratic. Administrative practice is currently ad hoc by relying on dispute resolution procedures that can and do yield very different settlements on disputed tax issues from one case to another, the IRS often ends up treating similarly situated cor- rations very differently. Moreover, to the extent that the disp- ity between statute and implementation reflects the IRS’s failure to carry out Congress’ will, the laws passed by duly elected officials are effectively being superseded by administrative procedure, developed incrementally by individuals who are not answerable to an electorate.

Download or read book A missing link in the analysis of global value chains cross border flows of intangible assets taxation and related measurement implications written by World Intellectual Property Organization and published by WIPO. This book was released on 2017 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding cross-border flows of disembodied knowledge, often associated with intellectual property (IP), is essential to analyzing how modern economies operate. This paper documents how available data to document these IP flows are distorted by various factors, including tax planning by multinational enterprises. It finds that tax-induced mismeasurement could be more than 35%, and greater for individual countries particularly high-tax-rate countries.