It was almost inevitable that at some time big business, with its ability to command almost untold sums in lobbying budgets, would fight back against
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For those not familiar with transfer pricing, some introductory material
There’s some debate going on around this blog relating to transfer pricing at the moment. For those not familiar with the subject here’s my introductory video
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Are accountants or tax lawyers right? Do we ignore intra-group intangibles, or not?
Following my comment on the taxation of intangibles yesterday Andrew Jackson, a chartered tax adviser wrote a comment and blog post in response. The first thing
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Speaking truth to power at the OECD
The phrase ‘speaking truth to power’ is one attributed originally to Quakers – although no one is quite sure who first said it. As a
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Ernst & Young object to my tweeting this morning
As Transfer Pricing Weekly have reported this morning, Ernst & Young objected to my live tweeting from the OECD earlier today. I was commenting on
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My submission to the OECD on transfer pricing documentation
The OECD has now published the submission I made to them on transfer pricing documentation on behalf of the BEPS Monitoring Group. That informal grouping
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Why arm’s length pricing does not work
If those commenting on this blog were to be believed (and they should not be) the OECD’s preferred method of allocating profits between states allocates
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What happened to Amazon’s tax in Japan?
As is well known, Amazon has been playing a game in the UK and many European countries in which it claims to have no permanent establishment for
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The Tax Justice Network has been voted the leading force in global transfer pricing policy
This is something I did not expect, from Transfer Pricing Weekly: The Big 4 railed against TJN’s approach to transfer pricing in the Lords this afternoon, but
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