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This publication will be a useful tool for practitioners and tax directors grappling with the complex and contentious issue of transfer pricing. It contains a series of highly detailed case studies, based on the author's twenty-one years as a government economist specializing in transfer pricing and valuation, a transfer pricing economist with Price Waterhouse, and, lastly, an independent consultant. These case studies elucidate the types of intercompany transactions that may be scrutinized by tax authorities, lay out how one should go about analyzing these transactions in painstaking detail,…mehr

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This publication will be a useful tool for practitioners and tax directors grappling with the complex and contentious issue of transfer pricing. It contains a series of highly detailed case studies, based on the author's twenty-one years as a government economist specializing in transfer pricing and valuation, a transfer pricing economist with Price Waterhouse, and, lastly, an independent consultant. These case studies elucidate the types of intercompany transactions that may be scrutinized by tax authorities, lay out how one should go about analyzing these transactions in painstaking detail, and suggest how one might assess tax exposure relating to transfer pricing. Tax policy analysts will find the evaluation and critique of existing methods and the development of alternative proposals thought-provoking and compelling.

The book is split into two parts: The first part describes and critically analyses the transfer pricing methods and regulations currently in place and proposes alternative approaches. The second part consists of ten case studies.
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.
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From the reviews: "The book of Elizabeth King is written for the benefit of tax practitioners. The focus is on the various transfer pricing cases. The case studies reflect in particular the US views as for example the FIN 48 specifications. We recommend this book to tax advisors and inhouse tax specialists handling transfer pricing aspects in particular related to the US." (Steuern-buecher, September, 2012)