Using a survey of tax executives from multinational corporations, we document that some firms set their transfer pricing strategy to minimize tax payments, but more firms focus on tax compliance. We estimate that a firm focusing on minimizing taxes has a GAAP effective tax rate that is 6.6...

This article is focused on the Court's decision in Hornbach-Baumarkt (Case C-382/16) (Hornbach) which is an important clarification of the conditional compatibility of arm's length-based domestic transfer pricing legislation with the freedom of establishment. Hornbach follows and confirms the...

Ever since the European Company (Societas Europaea - SE) was introduced in 2004 to complete the single European market and to facilitate freedom of establishment of companies, the number of established SEs has increased substantially. The SE Statute provides for cross-border mobility enabling...