Although transfer pricing deadlines are a permanent feature of the tax calendar, they still tend to surprise taxpayers each year. However, documentation obligations can be planned well in advance. For this reason, related parties should ensure timely verification of their controlled transactions, applicable documentation thresholds, and available exemptions.
How to correctly determine the income covered by IP Box, and where do transfer pricing rules come into play in this process?
The judgment of the Polish Supreme Administrative Court (NSA): a tax authority cannot automatically challenge a transaction price simply because it disagrees with the valuation method applied. When questioning the arm’s length nature of a transaction, the authority must demonstrate far more than mere reservations regarding the adopted methodology.
Can a taxpayer confirm in the TPR form that its transfer prices were arm’s length if it has previously adjusted its taxable income to an arm’s length level? A recent judgment of the Voivodeship Administrative Court in Gliwice suggests that a mere adjustment of the CIT settlement does not determine whether the conditions of a…
The Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) is increasingly indicating that certain capital transfers may also constitute a controlled transaction within the meaning of transfer pricing regulations. Such an approach also applies to arrangements that were previously often regarded as tax-neutral, including the free-of-charge share redemption. In practice, this may entail an obligation to conduct a thorough…
Transactions carried out between companies and members of the management board are, in themselves, neither unusual nor uncommon in business practice. Nevertheless, in order to avoid such transactions being challenged by the tax authorities, both the commercial rationale for such arrangements and their terms should be carefully analysed from a tax perspective.
The Court of Justice of the European Union has, for the first time, ruled in a case directly addressing the VAT implications of transfer pricing adjustments (Case C-603/24 Stellantis Portugal). This is a highly significant and controversial issue across the EU due to the absence of a harmonised approach among Member States.
Transfer pricing documentation within multinational capital groups has become an invaluable tool not only in the context of transfer pricing verification, but also in relation to other taxes, including withholding tax (WHT). In Poland, tax authorities are increasingly referring to group documentation, namely the Master File, during WHT audits.
Transfer pricing benchmarks under judicial scrutiny. Key insights from recent international case law and their implications for taxpayers.
Deferred payments in related-party transactions may undermine arm’s length conditions and lead to income adjustments by tax authorities