Oecd transfer pricing guidelines9/13/2023 ![]() The New Guidance on Financial Transactions It may also be prudent to implement mechanisms that independent parties have historically used to account for uncertainty in valuing intangibles, such as contractual provisions to account for the effects of reasonably foreseeable developments.To avoid ex-post adjustments, taxpayers should consider preparing detailed contemporaneous documentation to support the transfer price of their intangible transactions and be able to identify all likely risks related to the transferred intangibles.Taxpayers now have more clearly defined rules concerning when tax authorities can make adjustments when outcomes differ from expectations. The Guidance for Tax Administration on the Application of the Approach to Hard-to-Value Intangibles This guidance can be seen as a source of increased assurance for taxpayers as it suggests that tax authorities should not default to the application of a profit split method even if comparables do not exist. However, there is now greater clarification on when the profit split model is unlikely to be the most appropriate transfer pricing method to select.There remains a risk of unwanted proliferation of the profit split model and much is left open for interpretation the identification and measurement of appropriate profit split factors is likely to be the most contentious point and create audit risk for those deciding to adopt the model.The guidance provides specific hallmarks to consider for selecting the profit split model. The key highlights of the latest revisions are summarized below: The Revised Guidance on the Application of the Transactional Profit Split Model Hence, in the event of audits on the topics where new materials have been incorporated, consideration should be given as to whether these new Guidelines should be applied. However, often there are in fact legal arguments that, until references are updated in legislation whether by government order or automatic inclusion, there should be no ability to use that interpretation for audits for earlier years. However, in other jurisdictions, the updated Guidelines are treated by tax authorities more as confirmations of interpretation for earlier years, such as Germany and Italy. It should be noted that, in some jurisdictions, local legislation is explicit as to which years the different versions of Guidelines are effective for interpretation purposes, e.g., Australia. ![]() Sections A-E of the Guidance on Financial Transactions: Inclusive Framework on BEPS: Actions 4, 8-10 are incorporated into the Guidelines at Chapter X, and Section F, on risk-free and risk-adjusted rates of return is incorporated at Chapter I, Section D.1.2.1 (following paragraph 1.106 up to 1.126).Īs anticipated, the formal inclusion of these pre-approved changes in this latest 2022 edition of the Guidelines will increase the additional compliance burden on taxpayers.The section of the 2015 BEPS Actions 8-10 Report which provides guidance for tax administration on the application of the approach to Hard-to-Value-Intangibles (BEPS Action 8) is incorporated at Chapter 6, Section D.4 of the Guidelines.The Revised Guidance on the Application of the Transactional Profit Split Model has been incorporated into the Guidelines at Chapter 2, Part III, Section C. ![]() Notable inclusions in this edition are as follows: The potential for disputes with (or between) tax authorities remains high.The new edition of the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprise and Tax Administrations (Guidelines) was published on 20 January 2022.Tax administrations are encouraged to work with taxpayers who make good faith efforts to address the benchmarking issues raised in the pandemic period.The transfer pricing impacts arising from the pandemic should be evaluated in accordance with the delineation of the transaction pre-pandemic and any changes in the risk profile of the parties to the transaction may be a business restructuring under Chapter IX.Comparable companies and search criteria may need to be reconsidered when an existing set of comparables is rolled forward to 2020.Gather evidence and document how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted your business (including commercial relationships with third parties) and transfer pricing policies.We note that the Guidance is not binding on tax administrations and gives deference to domestic laws which may not provide for the full flexibility of the TPG in the application of the ALP. ![]() The Guidance is not prescriptive and leaves solutions to the issues that it raises unanswered. ![]()
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