Tax planning with intangibles has become one of the most popular and most vividly debated topics in international taxation. We incorporate various intellectual property (IP) tax planning models into forward-looking measures of effective tax rates, namely the disposal of intangibles to low-tax...

The IRS's position should not be considered to conflict with the arm's length principle. The OECD countries can always hold this view against the U.S., by stating that highly valuable marketing intangibles were created in the hands of OECD distributors. Now that it has been determined that U.S....

The article argues that the BEPS project has made only minimal progress in its work on the transfer pricing for intangibles, despite the prominence of the issue. More specifically, it achieved none but increased confusion and incoherence in the context of the specific rules for CCAs

OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines (TPG), after 2015 BEPS documents, enforce the rule according to which the intangible funder is not allowed to gain intangibles' revenues when lacking ability to control the project development performed by other group companies.OECD rule has a primary anti-abuse...

This study investigates how strategic tax transfer pricing of a multinational company (MNC) and two tax authorities in different countries affects production and tax avoidance decisions at the firm level and tax revenues at the country level. We employ a game-theoretical model to analyze the...

This study investigates how strategic tax transfer pricing of a multinational company (MNC) and two tax authorities in different countries affects production and tax avoidance decisions at the firm level and tax revenues at the country level. We employ a game-theoretical model to analyze the...

This paper analyzes the effect on firm behavior and national tax revenues of a policy of allowing multinational firms to choose whether to be taxed under separate accounting rules (transfer prices) or an apportionment formula. Either method can be preferred by low-cost firms and by high-cost...

When a Canadian parent corporation guarantees a debt obligation incurred by its foreign affiliate subsidiary, the issue arises whether the Canadian transfer pricing rules require the Canadian parent to receive an arm's length guarantee fee from the foreign affiliate. Proposed subsection 247(7.1)...

This paper elaborates on the emergence of so-called Advance Pricing Agreements (APA) in international taxation and corresponding APA programs in individual countries. It refers to how globalizing business processes trigger governance change on the nation state level regarding the identification...