International - Transfer Pricing
Despite adding personnel and making a concerted effort to speed up the advance pricing agreement process, the Advance Pricing and Mutual Agreement Program (APMA) faces challenges with the mounting demand. Our International Tax Group breaks down the hurdles for APMA and identifies important trends companies negotiating APAs should keep in mind.
APMA staff increased 21% last year, but median completion time for an APA increased to 35 months (up from 33 months in 2020)
APMA would need more than three years to work through its existing inventory of bilateral APAs at its current processing rate
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Has the Global Tax(man) Ended the “Race to the Bottom”? 136 Countries Agree to Overhaul International Corporate Tax System
Our International Tax Group analyzes the pillars of a new international corporate tax system, but one that faces some major hurdles.
Pillar One: a new taxing right in the digital worldPillar Two: a global minimum tax rate of 15%The road(blocks) ahead
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IRS APMA’s Results May Suggest COVID-19 Immunity
Our International Tax Group analyzes the report on the IRS’s Advance Pricing and Mutual Agreement Program and identifies important insights and trends for advance pricing agreements.
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on APMA operations and staffingAPA demand and output, 2019 – 2020More challenges on the horizon
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How to Price in a Pandemic: New OECD Guidance on Transfer Pricing Challenges Caused by COVID-19
Our International Tax Group examines how the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s new guidance reiterates the central role of the arm’s-length standard and provides guideposts for taxpayers and tax administrations as they analyze how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting intercompany pricing.
Comparability analysisLosses and the allocation of COVID-19 specific costsGovernment assistance programsAdvance pricing agreements
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Proposed Sec. 367 Regs Say Goodbye to Goodwill Exception
Citing aggressive taxpayer positions, recently proposed regulations do away with the foreign goodwill exception to gain or income recognition for outbound transfers under Section 367. The rules also restrict the type of property eligible for the active business exception.
Reasons for Change
Per the preamble, taxpayers interpret Section 367 and the regulations in one of two ways when claiming favorable treatment of foreign goodwill and going concern value. One interpretation argues that goodwill and going concern value are not IP within the meaning of Section 936(h)(3)(B) and thus not subject [...]Read more