Transfer Pricing and Corporate Taxation (eBook)

Problems, Practical Implications and Proposed Solutions
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2008 | 2009
XIV, 194 Seiten
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-0-387-78183-9 (ISBN)

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Transfer Pricing and Corporate Taxation -  Elizabeth King
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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.
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.

Economic and Accounting Rates and Concepts Should Not be Conflated.- Economic vs. Accounting Profit Rates.- Overview and Critique of Existing Transfer Pricing Methods.- Alternative and Supplementary Approaches to Transfer Pricing.- Some Alternative Approaches to Transfer Pricing.- Case Studies.- Intercompany Sale of Diamonds.- Intercompany Sale of Medical Devices.- Performance of Intercompany Services.- Replication of Internet-Based Business Model.- Sale of Assets with Embedded Intellectual Property.- Provision of CDN Services to Third Parties.- Global Trading of Commodities.- Decentralized Ownership of Intellectual Property.- Conclusions.- Concluding Observations.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 11.10.2008
Zusatzinfo XIV, 194 p.
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Steuern / Steuerrecht
Recht / Steuern Wirtschaftsrecht
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik
Schlagworte corporate tax • Taxation • Valuation
ISBN-10 0-387-78183-8 / 0387781838
ISBN-13 978-0-387-78183-9 / 9780387781839
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