India: Transfer Pricing Reporting Requirements

18 June, 2013

Recently India’s Central Board of Direct Taxes issued guidance that expands the transfer pricing reporting requirements of certain international transactions and certain “specified domestic transactions.” To bring into line those reporting

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India: Extensive Guidance Note on APA

18 June, 2013

Recently the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) of India published a comprehensive APA Guidance Booklet concerning India’s advance pricing agreement (APA) program, detailing the procedural aspects of unilateral, bilateral or multilateral APA

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India: Listed price cannot be used under the Comparable Uncontrolled Price (CUP) method

18 June, 2013

In a recent decision, the Chennai Bench of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal held that the list price on a manufacture’s website is only an “indicative price” and so the list price alone cannot be used to determine the arm’s length price of

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France: IGF recommends strengthening control of transfer pricing

18 June, 2013

The French tax authorities released a report on 11 June 2013 regarding recommendations aimed at strengthening existing transfer pricing rules applicable to international groups in France, to better combat tax optimization and avoidance by

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OECD: Revised Section E on Safe Harbours

11 June, 2013

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Council approved the Revised Section E on safe Harbours in Chapter IV of the Transfer Pricing Guidelines, on 16th May 2013. The Revised Section E (Section E) contains only nine pages,

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Australia: Practice statement on Transfer Pricing

11 June, 2013

The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (Customs) has published Practice Statement B_IND08 “Valuation-Transfer Pricing Policy” and this new practice statement will replace Practice Statement PS 2009/21 on the subject. The

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Argentina: New process for determining “tax haven” jurisdictions

11 June, 2013

Argentina’s tax authority (AFIP) has issued a decree introducing new criteria for when to consider countries as “tax haven” jurisdictions for transfer pricing purposes. This Decree was published on May 30, 2013. The Decree states that the AFIP

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Hungary: Draft bill on the proposed changes to transfer pricing reporting obligations

04 June, 2013

The Ministry of National Economy of Hungary had announced a draft bill in March 2013. The draft bill proposed significant changes to the reporting requirements regarding the determination of arm’s length prices. According to the proposed changes

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Russia: Offering New Transfer Pricing Deadlines

16 May, 2013

The Russian government has sent Draft Law No. 79859-6, which offers to set new transfer pricing deadlines for taxpayers for the second reading to the lower house of the Russian parliament. These changes may impact international businesses operating

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Brazil: Expands Threshold for Companies for presumed Profit Method

16 May, 2013

The profit method is one of four calculation regimes that may be applied by some companies for the computation of profits for Brazil’s corporate income tax. This is a simplified regime that enables a company to pay tax based on a percentage of its

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Australia: Amends Transfer Pricing Regulations

16 May, 2013

Australia has introduced the Tax Laws Amendment (Countering Tax Avoidance and Multinational Profit Shifting) Bill 2013 (“the Bill”) in the House of Representatives for approval. The new transfer pricing regulations will significantly bolster the

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Ukraine: New transfer pricing law

08 May, 2013

A transfer pricing Bill to amend the legislation with regard to transfer pricing and introduce best practice was registered with parliament on 12 March 2013. The Tax and Customs Committee of parliament has confirmed that the Transfer Pricing Bill

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Transfer Pricing Brief: April 2013

08 May, 2013

Argentina Resolución General N° 3476 introduced new Form F4501, for filing the transfer pricing documentation report. Finland Main corporate income tax rate has been reduced to 20%. India Circular 2/2013 clarifies that the profit split

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India: Central government has issued Notification on transfer pricing tolerance band

29 April, 2013

If the transfer price charged by a taxpayer is within a certain percentage of the arm’s length price determined under section 92C of India’s Income Tax Act no adjustment is required. In previous years there has been some misunderstanding as to

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Hungary: Proposed Changes to Transfer Pricing Rules

23 April, 2013

The Ministry of National Economy (’the Ministry’) of Hungary has proposed changes to Hungarian transfer pricing documentation requirements. They have introduced provisions relating to low value added services and specified criteria for selection

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India: Tax Court rules on selection of comparables

17 April, 2013

In determining transfer prices between a taxpayer and related parties one of the permitted methods is the transactional net margin method (TNMM). This compares profit margins to an appropriate base such as sales, assets or costs realized from a

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EU: Advocate General decides in favour of HMRC

17 April, 2013

The Advocate General has issued an opinion in a case referred to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) by the Danish High Court. The point at issue is whether the scope of Article 1(1) Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 includes an action brought by a State

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Argentina –Modifications to the transfer pricing regulations through General Resolution N° 3,476

17 April, 2013

The Argentine Federal Tax Authorities issued General Resolution N° 3,476 on 10 April 2013. The Resolution has revised the transfer pricing compliance rules and introduced modifications to the current Transfer Pricing regulations. General Resolution

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