Transfer pricing – your basic use of a benchmarking analysis Benchmarking analysis is a tool to verify whether the terms set in transactions between related parties correspond to the arm’s length principle. It allows examining whether the conditions in a transaction between related entities correspond to those that third parties have set or would set.…
Magdalena Marciniak and Marta Klepacz of MDDP lay out the challenges and complexities of attempting group analysis in Poland, and outline the approach of the domestic tax authorities. Benchmarking studies are a well-known topic in most tax jurisdictions. Just like anything else in life, there is no common understanding of how it should ultimately look.…
An increasing number of countries are introducing safe harbour mechanisms. This is a significant convenience for taxpayers in settlements with related parties. Among the world’s largest economies, these regulations are in place in the US, India, South Korea, Russia, Australia, Spain, Mexico, Austria or the Netherlands. Most jurisdictions have chosen to adopt safe harbour solutions…
It is a truth commonly acknowledged that related-party settlements have been scrutinized by tax authorities for several years. In 2022, more than 500 transfer pricing controls were taking place: 370 were completed and 242 were pending. In 2022 alone, the amount of additionally estimated income exceeded PLN 1 billion (almost PLN 220m more than in…
Cost optimization-oriented payment management as a controlled transaction Payment management to optimize costs of the payment settlement process using the PoB (payments on behalf) model is a controlled transaction – as stated by the District Administrative Court in Warsaw in the judgment of 10 August 2022 (file ref. III SA/Wa 3029/21). The Court was of…
Comparative analysis, also referred to as benchmarking analysis, is basically a key element of a transfer pricing documentation. Its purpose is to demonstrate that a given controlled transaction was made in accordance with the arm’s length principle. A correctly prepared analysis is therefore a security for the taxpayer in case allegations are raised by tax…
Financial institutions more and more often require guarantees when granting financing to enterprises. Entities belonging to capital groups may use intra-group guarantees as an alternative to guarantees from external financial institutions. It is the easiest and fastest way to obtain financing. One option are mutual guarantees: two or more related companies guarantee each other’s liabilities.…
Q1 2023 is coming to an end and taxpayers have already familiarized themselves with the changes brought in by the new year in the area of transfer pricing. The key one are shortened documentation and reporting deadlines, but apart from that, a number of seemingly minor changes were introduced at the beginning of the year.…
End of Q1 2023 – what obligations must be met? For most taxpayers operating in corporate groups the end of March 2023 is associated with the deadlines for meeting the last transfer pricing obligations. Some of them still apply to 2021. TPR for companies with a shifted tax year As a rule, in previous years…
The instrument of recharacterization and non-recognition of transactions was introduced to the transfer pricing regulations on 1 January 2019. Tax authorities may decide that in comparable circumstances third parties would not have made a given controlled transaction or would have entered into a different transaction (the so-called ‘proper transaction’). If that is the case, the…