Transfer pricing, the price at which goods and services are sold between associated enterprises, is regularly acknowledged to be the most important tax issue facing multinational businesses.
It is widely recognised that it can provide excellent tax saving opportunities but it can also give rise to significant compliance issues. For these reasons effective transfer pricing policies are of fundamental importance to group tax and risk management strategies, particularly in the current economic climate .
Utilising opportunities provided by transfer pricing can provide benefits such as:
In addition, an effective risk management strategy should provide certainty that transfer pricing exposures are managed efficiently and give assurance to directors, auditors and other stakeholders that the policy can be supported if challenged.
Our team of tax specialists, accountants and economists have worked with many clients to provide tailored transfer pricing solutions which have delivered real benefits to their businesses. We have many years of experience working in the “Big 4”, and also in the transfer pricing specialist team at HM Revenue and Customs. This provides us with excellent insights into solutions that have proved successful with clients across various industries and also the policies and procedures adopted by tax authorities. Our global reach to almost 100 countries means that we have the international presence to meet your transfer pricing requirements .
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Global Transfer Pricing Insight - Autumn 2010
Our Autumn/Winter edition of Global Transfer Pricing Insight, now released, contains a number of very topical issues such as joint transfer pricing audits, which pose a significant risk to taxpayers with cross border intra-group transactions.
Global Transfer Pricing Insight - Summer 2010
Welcome to the Summer 2010 edition of Mazars’ Global Transfer Pricing Insight. There has been plenty going on, not least because many governments remain short of funds and see transfer pricing as an effectivemeans of raising tax revenues.