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Tariffs and Transfer Pricing: Managing Global Intangible Property in a Dynamic Trade Environment
by Michael Bredahl, WTP Advisors ———- As global trade shifts in response to tariffs being employed as a key tool of economic policy, U.S. multinationals should urgently reassess their legacy transfer pricing strategies, particularly regarding intangible property (IP). The structure and location of IP ownership can either mitigate or exacerbate tariff exposure, fast becoming a…
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Small Countries Taking Big Bites
Read more: Small Countries Taking Big BitesBy Kash Mansori, WTP Advisors Posted: April 30, 2015 Even relatively small countries can raise substantial tax and transfer pricing issues for the world’s largest multinationals. Take Denmark, for example. A couple of years ago the Danish tax authorities (“SKAT”) announced that they would be making a significant enforcement push with regard to transfer pricing. Recently…
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Transfer Pricing and the Regulatory Climate in India
Read more: Transfer Pricing and the Regulatory Climate in IndiaBy Kash Mansori, WTP Advisors Posted: March 06, 2015 When Barack Obama met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India last week, one of the items discussed was rather unusual for presidential summits: transfer pricing. But it seems that this attention from the highest levels of government may be having results. First of all, the…
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The EU Commission’s Problematic Reasoning on Amazon
Read more: The EU Commission’s Problematic Reasoning on AmazonBy Kash Mansori, WTP Advisors Posted: January 16, 2015 Today the EU Commission released a document detailing its reasoning behind its decision to consider Luxembourg’s tax treatment of Amazon to be a violation of EU competition rules. The full document can be found here (pdf). The crux of the EU Commission’s argument is that Luxembourg gave…