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An area of taxation which examines the prices paid between related parties, usually companies. | An area of taxation which examines the prices paid between related parties, usually companies. | ||
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If the transfer pricing tax rules did not exist, a parent company could - for example - overcharge its overseas subsidiaries for goods or services. | If the transfer pricing tax rules did not exist, a parent company could - for example - overcharge its overseas subsidiaries for goods or services. | ||
This would - in this example - reduce the taxable profits of the overseas subsidiaries, the tax liabilities to the overseas tax authorities, and the total tax liabilities of the group, were it not for tax transfer pricing adjustments. | This would - in this example - reduce the taxable profits of the overseas subsidiaries, the tax liabilities to the overseas tax authorities, and the total tax liabilities of the group, were it not for tax transfer pricing adjustments. | ||
But the tax transfer pricing adjustments in the overseas tax assessments will prevent any tax avoidance in this case by adding back to overseas taxable profits the amounts of any overcharges, effectively restating the taxable profits as if arm's length prices had been charged. | But the tax transfer pricing adjustments in the overseas tax assessments will prevent any tax avoidance in this case by adding back to overseas taxable profits the amounts of any overcharges, effectively restating the taxable profits as if arm's length prices had been charged. | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
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* [[Internal trading]] | * [[Internal trading]] | ||
* [[Thin capitalisation]] | * [[Thin capitalisation]] | ||
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Revision as of 13:14, 14 August 2013
Tax.
An area of taxation which examines the prices paid between related parties, usually companies.
Transfer pricing tax rules are designed to prevent related parties from shifting taxable profits between each other in such a way as to avoid tax.
The most important transfer pricing rule is that all transactions between related parties must be at 'arm's length' prices.
If the transfer pricing tax rules did not exist, a parent company could - for example - overcharge its overseas subsidiaries for goods or services.
This would - in this example - reduce the taxable profits of the overseas subsidiaries, the tax liabilities to the overseas tax authorities, and the total tax liabilities of the group, were it not for tax transfer pricing adjustments.
But the tax transfer pricing adjustments in the overseas tax assessments will prevent any tax avoidance in this case by adding back to overseas taxable profits the amounts of any overcharges, effectively restating the taxable profits as if arm's length prices had been charged.
