Russia Clarifies transfer pricing for Domestic Transactions

31 March, 2014

Letter No 03-01-18/2080 issued by the Russian Finance Ministry on 22 January 2014 clarifies that some domestic transactions are to be subject to the transfer pricing rules as they are deemed to be controlled transactions for this purpose. These

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Israel: Information regarding controlled transactions and documentation

14 March, 2014

According to the Art. 57 of Act 90/2003, parties are considered as related if they are part of a group under Art.2 Act 3/2006. The majority of shares is owned, directly or indirectly, by two or more legal entities within the group or they are

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Iceland enacted its own transfer pricing legislation

09 March, 2014

Iceland has recently enacted its own transfer pricing legislation, which became effective from January 1, 2014. The transfer pricing rules are now regulated by Article 57 of Act No. 90/2003 on Income Tax based on the arm's length standard. There

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Russia: Ministry of Finance clarifies the transfer pricing rules

17 February, 2014

The Ministry of Finance Letter No. 03-01-18/53941, issued on 10 December 2013, clarifies the rules to determine the income for controlled transactions purposes. The Ministry of Finance specified that transactions defined in article 105.14 of the Tax

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India – Arm’s length price for sourcing support services

26 December, 2013

The Delhi High Court has held that the Transfer Pricing Officer’s determination of an arm’s length price based on a 5% markup of the “free on board” (FOB) value of goods sourced for a related party’s contract with third parties was

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India: Determines guarantee rates on loans are arm’s length

12 December, 2013

The Mumbai Bench of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal held that bank guarantee rates cannot be mechanically applied in determining the arm’s length price. The tribunal explained the difference between corporate guarantee and bank guarantee, and

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Russia–Readjusting the taxable base for transfer pricing purposes may impact on the VAT base

10 December, 2013

The Russian Ministry of Finance has made public Letter No. 03-01-18/19214 clarifying the rights of tax authorities to readjust the taxable base in the case of selling goods and performing of works or services between related parties. Article 105.3

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India: Determines arm’s length price of share transfers

10 December, 2013

The Income-tax Appellate Tribunal has held that the discounted cash flow method was preferable over the “yield” method or “net asset value” method for purposes of determining the arm’s length price of shares transferred to related parties.

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Brazil: Changes to transfer pricing regulations

22 October, 2013

Brazil issued Normative Instruction 1,395/2013 on 30 September 2013.This Instruction introduced changes to Normative Instruction 1,312/2012 regarding the prices that must be used in cross-border transactions involving the sale and purchase of goods,

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Chile: Circular notifying transfer pricing changes

25 July, 2013

The Chilean Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released Circular No. 29 on June 14, 2013 that includes instructions regarding the new transfer pricing rules introduced by Law 20,630. The circular recognizes the OECD TP Guidelines as a valid source

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India: Requirements For Transfer pricing’s “deemed international transaction”

22 May, 2013

India’s transfer pricing rules are designed to prevent the use of transfer prices between related enterprises to shift profits away from India to a lower tax jurisdiction. The rules are therefore generally concerned with international transactions

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Korea: Update on rules for application of arm’s length standard to head office–branch transactions

01 April, 2013

Korea’s Ministry of Strategy and Finance has issued new regulations to clarify the method for calculating domestic-source income from intra-company transactions between a foreign head office and its Korean branch. This follows the passing of the

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Indonesia – Potential changes to the transfer pricing regulations

10 December, 2012

The Director General of Taxation of Indonesia has recently focused on transfer pricing, proposing some changes to the existing transfer pricing rules. However, these proposals are not yet final and some changes may be made before the final issuance

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Australia – Proposed amendments of transfer pricing rules

10 December, 2012

The Australian Assistant Treasurer has recently  Tax Laws Amendment (Cross-Border Transfer Pricing) Bill 2013: Modernization of transfer pricing rules,in which changes to transfer pricing rules were proposed. The new law focuses mainly on

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Russia- Introduces new Transfer Pricing Rules

12 February, 2012

New Federal Law FZ-227 of 18 July 2011 which enacted comprehensive transfer pricing rules entered into force on 1 January 2012. According to the new Law, companies falling under the scope of transfer pricing rules will be obligated to disclose

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