Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Transfer pricing methods'

The purpose of this master’s thesis is to explain and analyze whether today’s existing regulations provide sufficient guidance on how to apply the Profit Split Method (PSM) in practice. Since the enterprises’ profits arising from intra-group transactions increases, the tax base for any government also becomes larger and more important. This issue will likely become even more problematic as the globalization branches out and the majority of the global trade is undertaken between associated enterprises.

In order to satisfy all parts and serve the dual objective of securing an appropriate tax base in each jurisdiction and avoiding double taxation, one ambition of the OECD is to harmonize the transfer pricing rules and make them become more uniform. An area in which this goal can be accomplish is at an international level such as the OECD; an important developer in the field of transfer pricing. Different transfer pricing methods has been developed which can be applied by both taxpayers and tax authorities to determine a correct transfer price. Six of these methods has gained international acceptance, although to a more or less extent among various countries, and one of these methods is the PSM. In the years between 1979 and 1995, the OECD had a reluctant standpoint of accepting the application of any transfer pricing method based on profits, such as the PSM. This hesitant viewpoint changed in the existing TPG which explicitly stipulates that the PSM could provide a transfer pricing estimation in accordance with the ALP, which should be accepted in exceptional cases.

There are certain situations where a PSM possibly will provide the most appropriate arm’s length result. Since the principle of economics can create complex business environments of both vertical and horizontal integration, contributions of valuable intangibles on both sides of the cross-border transaction, the PSM might be the only method which can be employed. A relevant issue which need to be enlightened is whether the existing guidance provided by the OECD and USA is sufficient from a practitioners and tax administration point of view, or is more guidance needed to better understand the issues surrounding the concept of the PSM. The fact that OECD insist of using comparables to the highest extent as possible when employing the PSM entails practical problems, since it is rather a rule than an exception that reliable comparables cannot be found when valuable intangibles are involved.

The Arthur of this master’s thesis has identified three key conclusions which might facilitate how PSM issues can be handled in the future and improve the existing PSM guidance. These conclusions are the need for a uniform PSM interpretation, the need for additional flexibility and acceptance, and the need for additional TPG guidance.

Prior to the last reform of the transfer pricing regime, only the application of specific valuation methods was allowed, which generated several practical and constitutional problematic issues. These were partially solved with the recent inclusion of a provision that allows the application of “other methods”. This paper analyzes the issues of the previous situation, as well as the solutions presented by the reform and its corresponding limits. Finally, the authors propose several precisions that, in their opinion, should be included in the regulation of the “other methods”.
Previamente a la última reforma del régimen peruano de precios de transferencia, solo se permitía la aplicación de métodos específicos de valoración, lo que generó una serie de problemas de índole práctica y constitucional. Estos se resolvieron parcialmente con la reciente inclusión de una disposición que permite la aplicación de “otros métodos”. El presente trabajo analiza la problemática de la situación previa, así como las soluciones que presenta la reforma y sus límites. Por último, se propone una serie de precisiones que, a juicio de los autores, deberían incluirse en la reglamentación de los “otros métodos”.

 

This master’s thesis discusses and analyzes difficulties in transfer pricing methods’ applicability to intangibles. With basis from the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines and the U.S. regulations, this thesis investigates applicable methods in legislation, theory, recommendations, case law and how they are applied in practice.

The OECD Guidelines do not provide an exact solution to the valuation of a transfer of intangibles between controlled parties. It refers to the arm’s length principle to determine whether the price set for a transfer between controlled parties is the same, as unrelated parties would have paid, under the same circumstances.

The best method rule used in the U.S. has no preferred order of application although it provides specific methods to be applied to intangibles. In the U.S., as in most countries (and recommended by the OECD), the Comparable Uncontrolled Price/Comparable Uncontrolled Transaction methods are considered most reliable if comparables can be identified.

The profit split method is recommended if there are no comparable transactions available and is applicable to non-routine intangibles. Other methods that require comparables are however used in the application of the profit split method to set an arm’s length price on routine functions. This method will probably become more popular in the future since it is not as dependent on comparables as most other transfer pricing methods.

There are several other methods and approaches to the arm’s length principle, which shows the complexity of intangibles and the ambition to find some form of standard.

This master’s thesis has identified the problems with most of the methods applied to intangibles relying on comparables to some extent. The comparability factors concerning intangibles are a problem, as they are difficult to apply strictly and a frequent problem is the limited access to information. A majority of available agreements published in databases are strongly focused on U.S. based enterprises transactions and rarely disclose all the required details. As a result, the comparables used become less reliable since the geographical area, size of the enterprise and functions compared seldom are comparable with the tested party or transaction. In some industry sectors, it is almost impossible to find independent comparables, especially for non-routine intangibles.

The discrepancy between theory and practice is shown through the usage and acceptance by tax authorities and courts, of comparables without sufficient comparability. This simplified and practical approach to transfer pricing derives from the limited availability of information and the need to avoid unreasonable requirements on the MNEs to produce transfer pricing benchmarking in particular and documentation in general.

 

 

Denna magisteruppsats diskuterar och analyserar svårigheterna med internprissättningsmetoders tillämplighet på immateriella tillgångar. Med utgångspunkt från OECD:s riktlinjer och de amerikanska reglerna, undersöker denna uppsats lagstiftningen, teorin, rekommendationer och rättsfall rörande tillämpliga metoder och hur de tillämpas i praktiken.

OECD:s rekommendationer ger ingen direkt lösning på värderingen av transaktionen av immateriella tillgångar mellan parter i intressegemenskap. Den hänvisar till armlängdsprincipen för att avgöra huruvida priset på en transaktion mellan kontrollerade parter är samma som okontrollerade parter skulle ha betalat under samma omständigheter.

Best method rule som används i USA ger inget krav på i vilken ordning metoderna ska användas även om den omfattar särskilda metoder som skall tillämpas på immateriella tillgångar. I USA, liksom i de flesta länder (och rekommenderat av OECD), anses Comparable Uncontrolled Price/Comparable Uncontrolled Transaction metoderna vara de mest tillförlitliga om jämförbara transaktioner kan identifieras.

Profit split metoden rekommenderas om det inte finns några jämförbara transaktioner tillgängliga och kan användas på icke rutinmässiga immateriella tillgångar. Andra metoder som kräver jämförbara transaktioner används dock vid tillämpningen av profit split metoden för att bestämma ett armslängdsmässigt pris på rutinmässiga funktioner. Denna metod kommer troligen att bli mer populärt i framtiden eftersom den inte är lika beroende av jämförbara transaktioner som de flesta andra internprissättningsmetoder.

Det finns flera andra metoder och strategier för att bestämma ett armlängsmässigt pris vilket visar immateriella tillgångars komplexitet och ambitionen att hitta någon form av standard.

Denna magisteruppsats har påvisat problematiken med att de flesta metoder som tillämpas på immateriella tillgångar använder i viss utsträckning jämförbara transaktioner. Kompabilitetskraven på de jämförbara immateriella tillgångarna utgör ett problem eftersom de är svåra att tillämpa strikt och ett återkommande problem är den begränsade tillgången till information. En majoritet av de tillgängliga avtalen publiceras i databaser som är starkt fokuserad på amerikanska företags transaktioner och sällan ges alla nödvändiga uppgifter. Detta resulterar i sämre tillförlitlighet på de jämförbara transaktionerna, eftersom det geografiska området, storleken på företagen och dess funktioner sällan är jämförbara med de testade parterna eller transaktionerna. I vissa branscher är det näst intill omöjligt att hitta oberoende jämförbara transaktioner, särskilt för icke-rutinmässiga immateriella tillgångar.

Skillnaden mellan teori och praktik visas genom användandet, skattemyndigheters och domstolars accepterande, av transaktioner utan tillräcklig jämförbarhet. Detta förenklade och praktiska tillvägagångssätt beror på den begränsade tillgången på information och behovet av att undvika orimliga krav på multinationella företag att producera jämförbarhetsanalyser och dokumentation till internprissättningen

 

The diploma thesis is devoted to the transfer pricing, particularly focusing on one of the transfer pricing methods: the transactional net margin method. In the theoretical part, the thesis deals with the transfer pricing legislation and demonstrates examples of how the profit transfer may occur. Further the thesis describes the transfer pricing methods and its use, mainly focusing on the transactional net margin method and its practical application. It deals with the profit level indicators and the comparability that must be followed when applying this method. In the practical part the thesis presents a Czech manufacturing company engaged in transactions with related parties. Using the functional and comparative analysis the compliance with the arm's length principle is determined.

Recent scandals involving related party transactions (RPTs) have attracted researchers’ and governments’ attention. Because imperfections exist in the legislation of RPTs, business groups might abuse transfer pricing of such transactions for certain purposes. These purposes include earnings management of listed companies that seek to attract investors and profit shifting from subsidiaries to parent companies. This study investigates the impact of corporate governance on the choice of transfer pricing methods in China. I classify transfer pricing methods into two major groups (i.e., market-based and cost-based methods). I hypothesize that companies with weak corporate governance are more likely to use cost-based pricing methods, which are regarded as subjective and more easily manipulated. According to previous studies on corporate governance, a smaller board size, CEO-Chairman duality (i.e. the CEO and the Chairman of the company are the same person), and a lower percentage of independent directors on the board are indicators of weak corporate governance. Using data collected from annual reports of Chinese listed firms in the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Markets from 2003 to 2005, I find that government-controlled companies are more likely to use market-based methods than others. It is consistent with the hypothesis that ownership has an impact on the choice of transfer pricing methods. The results also show that when the chairman of the board and the CEO of the company is the same person, companies are more likely to use cost-based methods. However, inconsistent with my hypothesis, the results indicate that firms with small boards are more likely to choose cost-based methods than firms with large boards. This study extends prior research on transfer pricing by focusing on the impact of corporate governance. Furthermore, this study suggests that regulators might limit transfer pricing manipulations by stipulating a firm’s corporate governance structure. This research also draws both regulators’ and investors’ attention to the impact of corporate governance on transfer pricing methods.

Världsekonomin är i ständig tillväxt. Till följd av globaliseringen av ekonomin har allt fler multinationella koncerner etablerats. För att kunna effektivisera och vinstmaximera inom sina organisationer har multinationella bolag utnyttjat olika länders skattesystem. Det genom att förflytta sina vinster till skatteparadis eller andra länder med längre skatt för att på så vis uppnå ett högre resultat för koncernen i helhet. Det leder till att skattebaserna i länder med höga skattesatser eroderas. Av den anledningen har ett behov av en global accepterad standard rörande internprissättning uppkommit. Organisation for Economic Co-oporation and Development har gett ut riktlinjer som de anslutande medlemsländerna ska följa vilka går under namnet Transfer Pricing Gudelines For Multinational Enterprises And Tax Authorities. Riktlinjerna behandlar de viktigaste områdena inom internprissättning och består av totalt nio kapitel.Studien syftar till att undersöka om svensk respektive amerikansk lagstiftning och hänvisningar inom området internprissättning är harmoniserade. Detta med hänsyn till OECDs riktlinjer. För att ta reda på om länderna är harmoniserade inom området har en komparativ studie genomförts. I uppsatsen har en undersökning av kapitel 1, 2, 5, 8 ur OECDs riktlinjer utförts, vilka berör armlängdsprincipen, CCA, prissättningsmetoder och dokumentation. För att kunna avgöra om harmonisering råder inom samtliga områden har en kvalitativ metod använts för att kunna studera ekonomisk och juridisk litteratur. Det för att kunna lägga grund till den slutgiltiga analysen av empiri i form av lagtext och hänvisningar.Studien har bidragit med ökad kunskap för hur OECDs riktlinjer är utformade inom området. Genom djupare förståelse för dess utformning har det bidragit med en inblick i hur OECDs riktlinjer påverkar medlemsländernas utformning av sina hänvisningar och lagstiftningar inom internprissättning. Vid granskning av OECDs utformning inom samtliga områden som tas med i studien har en analys kunnat genomföras för att se hur dessa implementerats inom de två medlemsländerna som är utvalda i studien. Studien har dessutom bidragit med en ökad förståelse för hur de svenska respektive amerikanska hänvisningarna och lagstiftningarna ser ut inom området.Uppsatsen resulterar i att harmonisering råder mellan Sverige och USA inom området internprissättning. Genom analysering av lagar och hänvisningar har stora likheter kunnat urskiljas i enighet med OECDs riktlinjer. Vid genomförandet av studien har viss olikhet och differentiering i utformandet kunnat identifieras men inte i tillräckligt stor utsträckning för att kunna påverka vår slutsats om att det råder harmonisering mellan Sverige och USA i enighet med OECD.
The world economy is in constant growth. As a result of the globalization of the economy, more multinational enterprises have established. In order to streamline and maximize profits within their organizations, multinational companies have exploited various countries tax bases. By moving their profits to tax havens or other countries with lower tax rates they achieve higher earnings for the business as a group. Which leads to that the tax bases in countries with high tax rates will be eroded. Because of this a need for a globally accepted standard on Transfer pricing arise. Organisation for Economic Co-oporation and Development has issued guidelines that acceding member states should follow which is known as Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Authorities. The OECD guidelines consist of nine chapters and address the key areas of Transfer pricing.This study aims to examine the Swedish and US laws and references to see if they are harmonized in the field of transfer pricing in regard with the OECD guidelines. To find out if the countries are harmonized within the region a comparative study has been select. In the study, a survey of Chapters 1, 2, 5, 8 of the OECD Guidelines were performed, which contains the arm's length principle, CCA, transfer pricing methods and documentation. In order to determine whether harmonization exists, a qualitative method has been used to study economic and legal literatures to lay the foundation for the final analysis of empirical data in the form of legal texts and references.This study has contributed to increased knowledge of how the OECD Guidelines are designed in the area. Through a deeper understanding of its design, it has given a glimpse of how the OECD guidelines affect the member countries design on their references and laws in the area of transfer pricing. Upon review of the OECDs guidelines of all the areas included in the study, an analysis has been carried out to see how these are implemented in the two member states that are selected in this thesis. The study has also contributed to a better understanding of how the Swedish and American references and legislation are implemented in the field.The thesis results in that harmonization exists between Sweden and the United States within the area of transfer pricing. By analyzing the laws and references great similarities have discernible in unity with the OECD guidelines. In the implementation of the study some diversity and differentiation in the design have been identified, but not sufficiently to affect our conclusion that there is harmonization between the United States and Sweden in unity with the OECD guidelines.This paper is hereinafter written in Swedish.

This dissertation focuses on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ('OECD') transfer pricing methods and its application to Multinational Enterprise ('MNE') groups in the financial sector. This study examines whether the OECD's Base Erosion and Profit Shifting ('BEPS') Action Plan 9 is an appropriate framework for MNE groups in the banking sector or whether it creates further challenges. Additionally, the dissertation scrutinises MNE groups in the financial sector that are involved in the business of global trading of financial instruments. It further explores the functions of a global trading entity, the arm's length principle and the OECD BEPS Action Plan 9. This dissertation concludes that the global trading of financial instruments using the integrated trading model is challenged when the OECD traditional transfer pricing methods are applied. Multinational financial institution groups in the banking sector that are involved in the business of global trading of financial instruments are subject to rigid regulations. Furthermore, the report concludes that these rigid regulations mitigate some of the complications that arise when applying the OECD BEPS Action Plan 9. Taxing authorities need to focus greater attention on the global trading of financial instruments by multinational financial institutions groups. As South Africa's financial institutions expand across borders, the concerns over transfer pricing and BEPS are likely to intensify. It is therefore imperative that the South African revenue authorities prioritise the recruitment of skilled personnel in order to address the complexities posed by the global trading of financial instruments by multinational financial institution groups.

The arm’s-length principle (ALP), the transactions taken place between unrelated parties acting at an arm’s length in competitive markets, is used by income tax authorities to determine transfer pricing, the pricing of goods, services and intangibles transferred between affiliates of a multinational enterprise (MNE), and is an important international tax issue for a number of reasons. First, globalization creates integrated businesses with enormous cross-border transfers whilst corporate income tax systems remain nationally based. Second, governments insist that globalization provides MNEs with more opportunities to manipulate transfer prices and reduce taxes than in the past, thus the need for tighter regulation. Third, there is an increased desire amongst tax authorities faced with tight fiscal situations, to protect and enhance their revenue base encouraging stricter regulation of MNEs. Profit is seen as only one of the many goals that motivate the behaviour of MNEs and the newly introduced profit based methods of transfer pricing has increased the reliance on comparables significantly. As the number of specified methods was increased and the hierarchy of acceptable methods was replaced by either the best method rule or the method of last resort, taxpayers are expected to document their transfer pricing policies. The documentation has to be contemporaneous and available upon request. The methods newly introduced by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD, 1995), Transaction Net Margin Method (TNMM), and US Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS, 1994) Comparable Profit Method (CPM), vary in relation to their application and views in controlling for function and risk when developing comparables. This suggests a degree of discretion may be exercised under different regulations that may be detected through ownership and tax. This study attempts to identify the level of discretion provided under both OECD (TNMM) and US IRS (CPM) methods. It is also tests the scope of ownership effect on the reported profit of Japanese-owned companies and US-owned companies compared to their UK counterparts. Finally this study examines whether the reported tax expense has changed subsequent to tax policy changes, specifically the latest UK transfer pricing regulations introduced in 1998 corporation tax self-assessment. The empirical analysis confirms differences between OECD and US IRS profit ranges and variations between profit level indicators (PLIs). Foreign-owned Japanese and US companies are also found to exhibit low profitability compared to UK companies. This research discovered low performance among a high number of the Japanese-owned companies with operating losses when compared to their UK counterparts and offers evidence of the low tax expenses reported by foreign-owned Japanese companies.

The purpose of this thesis is to analyse and compare the transfer pricing approaches held by the OECD, Germany and the United States when transferring an ongoing concern. The term “ongoing concern” in the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines is to be interpreted as very wide and to cover every case where a function is bundled with assets and risks. Even though there is no legal definition of the term , the definition of the OECD can still be said to represent the common definition of the term. When transferring an ongoing concern or a function the three approaches are all that it should be given a value that independent enterprises under similar circumstances would agree upon. Besides some particular cases, the OECD and German approach is that the function, assets and risks should be aggregated when determining the arm’s length price. The approach of United States is somewhat different, where an aggregation of the transactions is not always the case and goodwill and going concern value are not subject to the transfer pricing legislation. The comparability approaches and the transfer pricing methodologies of the three are is very similar, where some factors should be taken into account when determinign the comparability between two transactions and with the selection of the most appropriate transfer pricing method applied to the transaction. The comparable uncontrolled price method should be seen as a primary transfer pricing method, and if it is not possible to find comparable transactions or to make reasonable accurate adjustments the profit split method should be applied. The hypothetical arm´s length test is the method that would be applied in such case according to the German legislation. The selection of which valuation method to apply to the transfer depends on the facts and circumstances of the transfer.

Den fortsatt snabba tillväxten av internationell handel och den ökade globaliseringen harresulterat i en ökning av användandet av internprissättning inom koncerner. Detta har i sin turuppmärksammat multinationella företag, som till följd av detta hamnat i mitten av en storm avstridigheter. I takt med att transaktioner ökat, har det uppstått problem med internprissättning.Internprissättningen används som ett viktigt verktyg av globala företag för att uppnå optimalavinster, där det kan uppstå manipulation av internpriser. Internprissättning förklaras därförofta som fenomenet att vinstmaximera genom att utnyttja andra länders skattesystem ochkringgå statliga regleringar. Mobiliseringen av internprissättning i syfte av skatteflykt är nästintill osynligt för allmänheten och ytterst svårt för tillsynsmyndigheter att upptäcka. För attkomma till underfund med detta problem och samtidigt hjälpa skattemyndigheter ochmultinationella företag har organisationen Organisation for Economic Co-operation andDevelopment (OECD) tagit fram ett antal riktlinjer.Syftet med vår studie är att genomföra en komparativ undersökning för att pröva om det finnsen skillnad mellan tillämpningen av OECD:s riktlinjer, mellan länder med anglosaxiskrespektive kontinental redovisningstradition. Därför sker den komparativa studien mellan detkontinentala Tyskland och det anglosaxiska Storbritannien. För att undersöka potentiellaskillnader används kapitel I, II och IV i OECD:s riktlinjer för internprissättning (OECDTransfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations 2010).Dessa kapitel innehåller armlängdsprincipen, internprissättningsmetoder och dokumentation.För att kunna bedöma om det finns några skillnader i tillämpningen av OECD:s riktlinjermellan Tyskland och Storbritannien har vi kvalitativt granskat lagtexter och riktlinjer frånländernas skattemyndigheter. Vidare har vi använt oss av kvalificerad juridisk och ekonomisklitteratur.Vi har kommit fram till att det finns en skillnad mellan tillämpningen av OECD:s riktlinjermellan Storbritannien och Tyskland. Trots likheter som identifierats finns även storaskillnader mellan de två länderna. Dessa olikheter har varit av sådan omfattning att slutsatsenom att det råder skillnader i tillämpningen av OECD:s riktlinjer mellan ett anglosaxiskt ochkontinentalt land, kunnat dras. Studien bidrar till ökad kunskap om hur skattelagstiftningen ärutformad i Storbritannien och Tyskland. Den bidrar även med kunskap om hur OECD:sriktlinjer är utformade och hur dess utformning påverkar andra länders internprissättning. Vårstudie bidrar vidare med litteratur om Tysklands och Storbritanniens implementering avOECD:s riktlinjer samt OECD:s påverkan på utformning av länders skatteregler inominternprissättning.
The continued rapid growth of international trade and the increased globalization has resultedin an increase of use of transfer pricing within corporate groups. This has, further attractedattention to multinational companies that, as a consequence, have ended in the midst of astorm of debates. As transactions increased the problem of transfer pricing arose. Transferpricing is used as an important tool of global companies to achieve optimal profits, whereinternal prices may be manipulated. Transfer pricing is therefore often explained as thephenomenon of maximizing profit by utilizing other countries' tax systems and bypassinggovernment regulations. The mobilization of internal pricing for tax evasion is almostinvisible to the public and extremely difficult for regulatory authorities to detect. In order toaddress this problem while helping tax authorities and multinational companies, theOrganization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has developed a numberof guidelines.The purpose of our study is to carry out a comparative study to determine if there is adifference between the application of the OECD guidelines, between countries with Anglo-Saxon and Continental Accounting tradition. Hence, the comparative study takes placebetween the Anglo-Saxon United Kingdom and the Continental Germany. To investigatepotential differences, chapters I, II and IV are used in the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelinesfor Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administration 2010. These chapters include the arm'slength principle, transfer pricing methods and documentation. In order to assess whether thereis any difference in the application of the OECD guidelines between United Kingdom andGermany, we have qualitatively reviewed legal texts and guidelines from the tax authorities ofthe countries. Furthermore, we have used qualified legal and economic literature.We have found that there is a difference between the application of the OECD guidelinesbetween United Kingdom and Germany. Despite similarities identified, there are also majordifferences between the two countries. These differences have been of such, that theconclusion that there are differences in the application of the OECD guidelines between anAnglo-Saxon and Continental country, could be drawn. The study contributes with increasedknowledge of how tax law is designed in the United Kingdom and Germany. It alsocontributes with knowledge of how the OECD guidelines are designed and how its designaffects other countries' transfer pricing. Our study further contributes literature on UnitedKingdom’s and Germany's implementation of the OECD Guidelines, as well as the OECD'simpact on the design of countries' tax rules in transfer pricing.This paper is hereinafter written in Swedish.

Mestrado em Contabilidade, Fiscalidade e Finanças Empresariais
No atual contexto de desenvolvimento económico e empresarial a temática dos Preços de Transferência tem ganho, cada vez mais, uma grande importância quer a nível económico, quer a nível fiscal. Com este desenvolvimento a necessidade de controlo cresceu na mesma proporção que a quantidade de bens e serviços transacionados pelas empresas. Assim, assiste-se a uma preocupação crescente com os Preços de Transferência. Neste sentido, o presente trabalho tem como base a análise dos mesmos. Numa primeira fase serão apresentados os conceitos mais importantes para a compreensão deste conceito tendo em conta vários autores e a legislação em vigor. Posteriormente, serão analisados dois dossiers de Preços de Transferência que serão fundamentais para a criação de um Índice que, consequentemente, dará resposta à questão de investigação.
In the present context of economic and business development, the issue of Transfer Pricing has increasingly gained great importance at both economic and fiscal levels. With this development, the need for control has grown in the same proportion as the quantity of goods and services traded by companies, thus, there is an increasing concern with Transfer Pricing. In this sense, the present work is based on the analysis of Transfer Pricing. In a first phase, the most important concepts for the understanding of this subject will be presented, taking into account several authors and legislation in force. Subsequently, two Transfer Pricing dossiers will be analysed, which will be fundamental for the creation of an Index that will answer the research question.
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T18:40:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lourivaldo Lopes da Silva.pdf: 712388 bytes, checksum: 743b45995489685642aa60a21e26255a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-06-17
Until the end of 1.996, the Brazilian legislation did not regulate the transactions of importation and exportation related to companies from overseas. However, with the law number 9.430/96, January 1st, 1.997, the legislation for tax return regulated for the first time the issue about the cost for international transferring of goods, services, rights and interests. It was a big step to minimize the over costs on the importations and the under costs on the exportations. Several countries have been controlling all transferring of goods, services, rights and interests related to people from overseas for decades. In the United States of America they have adopted this process over 40 yeas ago. Several alterations have happened recently in the Brazilian Taxation scenario, especially with respect to cost transferring. This work is about the methodologies imposed by the Brazilian Legislation, for importation and exportation issues and to know if the current rules go against the Accounting Fundamental Principles and supplies recommendations to account the excess of costs from importing of goods, services and interests with companies from overseas
Até o final de 1.996 a legislação brasileira não regulamentava as transações relacionadas com importação e exportação, com pessoas vinculadas no exterior. Com a lei 9.430/96, a partir de 1º. de janeiro de 1.997, a legislação do imposto de renda regulou pela primeira vez a questão dos preços de transferência internacionais de bens, serviços, direitos e juros. Foi um grande passo no sentido de minimizar o superfaturamento nas importações e o subfaturamento nas exportações. Diversos países há muito já controlam os preços de transferência de seus bens, serviços, direitos e juros nas operações com pessoas vinculadas no exterior. Para se ter uma idéia, o controle nos Estados Unidos já ultrapassa os trinta anos. Tendo em vista as diversas alterações ocorridas no cenário tributário brasileiro, mormente no que diz respeito ao preço de transferência, este trabalho se propõe a estudar as metodologias impostas pela legislação brasileira tanto na importação como exportação, observar se as regras impostas contrariam os Princípios Fundamentais de Contabilidade e fornecer sugestões de contabilização para o excesso de custos oriundos da importação de mercadorias, serviços e juros com pessoas vinculadas no exterior

The master thesis deals with the issue of transfer price of a controlled transaction between associated enterprises. Part of the master thesis is definition of basic theoretical concepts associated with the issue of transfer pricing with a focus on domestic, international, and European Union law. The master thesis deals with the analysis of case law, whose subject matter is transfer pricing. The theoretical starting points of the thesis are applied to a practical example, which deals with the issue of determining the transfer price for specific controlled transaction between associated enterprises.

The aim of this diploma thesis is to make a model comparability analysis of controlled transactions within the reinsurance of insurers and to recommend appropriate transfer pricing methods based on defined assumptions. The work is divided into three parts. The first part deals with transfer pricing issues, focusing on comparability analysis and recommended transfer pricing methods according to the Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations formulated by Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (Guidelines OECD). The second part describes the basic knowledge and routine practice for the area of reinsurance connected to the transfer of insurance risks. The last part combines the first two chapters, i.e. application of transfer pricing methods in the light of the comparability analysis according to the Guidelines OECD for reinsurance of insurers. The application itself is implemented through the model comparability analysis in order to recommend appropriate transfer pricing methods, i.e. in accordance with the arm's length principle.

Mestrado em Contabilidade, Fiscalidade e Finanças Empresariais
A presente dissertação apresenta uma abordagem fiscal à temática dos preços de transferência dos ativos intangíveis, tipificando e caracterizando os principais aspetos em sede de Imposto sobre o Rendimento. É realizado um estudo comparado relativo aos regimes fiscais de patent box adotados por seis países da UE e à proposta de regime do UK, abordando os principais fatores fiscais de cada regime e evidenciando as suas especificidades no âmbito desta temática. Para a determinação dos termos e condições que seriam normalmente estabelecidos em situação de plena concorrência, são analisados os métodos elencados no artigo 63.º do CIRC, bem como outras metodologias de avaliação ás quais é possível recorrer. A oportunidade da criação de regimes de salvaguarda (safe harbour) no domínio dos preços de transferência, poderá constituir uma solução alternativa para Portugal relativamente à avaliação dos ativos intangíveis. Neste contexto é analisada a legislação brasileira como um exemplo da prática de safe harbour.
This paper presents an approach to the issue of tax transfer pricing of intangible assets, typifying and characterizing key aspects of tax based on Income Tax. It is carried out a comparative study on the patent box tax regimes adopted by six EU countries as well as on the proposed UK regime, addressing the main key issues of each tax regime and highlighting their specificities within this theme. For the determination of terms and conditions that would normally be established in a situation of full competition, the methods listed in Article 63.º of CIRC, are analyzed and other valuation methodologies which use can be made. The possibility of creating safeguard regimes in the area of transfer pricing, could be an alternative solution to Portugal concerning the evaluation of intangible assets. In this context, the Brazilian legislation is analyzed as an example of the practice of safe harbour.

Internprissättning anses vara ett av de mest kritiska problemen när det kommer till nationell och internationell beskattning. Den växande globaliseringen har resulterat i uppkomsten av många nya multinationella verksamheter, vilket även har till följd att transaktioner mellan företag med verksamhet i olika länder ökat. För att uppnå maximal global vinst flyttar multinationella företag vinster från högskatteländer till lågskatteländer och utnyttjar därmed länders olika skattesystem. Till följd av detta har fokus ökat från skattemyndigheter världen över, med incitament om att skydda sitt lands skattebas. Regler i syfte att begränsa internationell skatteflykt har blivit alltmer betydelsefulla, därmed har ett behov av en global accepterad standard avseende internprissättning uppkommit. Organisationen Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) har tagit fram ett antal riktlinjer som behandlar internprissättning. Syftet med studien är att redogöra om det finns skillnader eller likheter mellan implementeringen av OECDs riktlinjer avseende internprissättning mellan Sverige, som är medlem i OECD, samt Kina och Singapore som inte är medlemmar. Vidare syftar studien till att verifiera eller falsifiera följande hypotes; att skillnader i implementeringen och utformning av internprissättning i respektive länders lagar och riktlinjer kan förklaras av kulturella dimensioner i landet. Därav genomfördes en komparativ studie mellan Sverige, Kina och Singapore lagtexter och riktlinjer samt OECDs riktlinjer. Studien omfattar en undersökning av OECDs riktlinjer för internprissättning, OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations 2017, avseende kapitel I. Armlängdsprincipen, kapitel II. Prismetoder och kapitel IV. Dokumentation. Slutsatsen av studien är att såväl medlemsländer samt icke-medlemsländer följer OECDs riktlinjer för internprissättning men att det förekommer variationer i omfattning. Vi finner likheter i såväl ländernas lagstiftning som riktlinjer avseende syfte och innehåll inom de undersökta områdena. Studien identifierar även skillnader i ländernas internprissättningsreglering vilka till största del utgörs av vilken omfattning länderna har anpassat sina riktlinjer efter OECDs riktlinjer. Vår slutsats är att harmonisering råder, men i olika utsträckning, även utanför OECD som institution och att ett medlemskap i organisationen inte är en nödvändighet för att likhet i internprissättning ska existera. Vår studie visar samtidigt att utformningen av internprissättningsregler beror på kulturella dimensioner i högre utsträckning än institutionella influenser. Vår hypotes har genom studien kunnat verifieras och ger därför stöd åt att skillnader i internprissättning i respektive länders lagar och riktlinjer kan förklaras av kulturella dimensioner i landet. Studien bidrar till ökad förståelse av respektive länders lagstiftningar och riktlinjer för internprissättning samt dess likhet med OECDs riktlinjer. Vidare bidrar studien med kunskap i hur kulturella dimensioner, i samspel med OECD, påverkat både medlemsländer samt icke-medlemsländers implementering och utformning av sina lagar och riktlinjer inom internprissättning.
Transfer pricing is considered one of the most critical issues regarding national and international taxation. The growing globalization has resulted in the creation of a multiplicity of new multinational corporations, which in turn has led to an increase in financial transactions between companies with business in different countries. To maximize global profit, multinational corporations move profit from high tax countries to low tax countries by using other countries tax systems. As a consequence, focus on this issue has increased from tax departments all over the world, with the intent to protect their nations’ tax base. Regulation with the purpose of minimizing international tax avoidance have become increasingly important and thus a need for a globally accepted standard considering transfer pricing, has ascended. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has developed a number of guidelines regarding transfer pricing. The purpose of the study is to present differences and similarities in the implementation of OECDs guidelines regarding transfer pricing between Sweden, a member in OECD, as well as China and Singapore who are not members in the OECD. Further the study aims to verify or falsify the hypothesis: that differences in the implementation and design of transfer pricing in the respective countries’ national regulation and guidelines can be explained by cultural dimensions within the countries. Hence a comparative study was executed between Sweden, China and Singapore’s legal texts and guidelines, along with the OECD guidelines. The study contains an examination of transfer pricing in the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administration 2017 of Chapter I. Arm's Length Principle, Chapter II. Price Methods and Chapter IV. Documentation. The study concludes that both member states as well as non-member states follow the OECD guidelines for transfer pricing but that variations between the nations exist. We find similarities in the nations’ regulation and guidelines regarding purpose and content within the examined areas. The study also identifies differences in the transfer pricing regulation between the nations, largely regarding the extent to which the nations has adapted the legal texts and guidelines to the OECD guidelines. Our conclusion is that visible harmonization exist, but in a varying extent, even outside the OECD as an institution, and that membership in the organisation is not a necessity for similarities in transfer pricing guidelines to occur. The study also indicates that the structure of transfer pricing regulation is influenced by cultural dimensions to a larger extent than institutional influences, hence our hypothesis verify that differences in transfer pricing in the respective countries’ national regulation and guidelines can be explained by cultural dimensions within the countries, is supported. The contribution of the study is increased understanding of the examined nations’ regulation and guidelines regarding transfer pricing and their similarities with OECD guidelines for transfer pricing. Further the study contribute to knowledge of how the cultural dimensions within the nations, in combination with OECD, influence the implementation and structuring of regulation and guidelines regarding transfer pricing in both member states and non-member states of the OECD.

The Master’s thesis is concerned with establishing the transfer price of royalties. The thesis is divided into four parts. The theoretical part contains definitions of key words using international and domestic law. The analytical part includes a description of methods recommended by OECD and their use for royalties transactions. The practical part describes a methodical procedure for establishing the transfer price of royalties, which is then used in the next part for a model example.

Master thesis deals with setting a transfer price of controlled transaction between associated enterprises and its impacts on the tax liability of the tax subject. Master thesis defines basic theoretical concepts, legal regulations of transfer pricing, description of methods for setting transfer prices and procedure for determination these prices. Based of this knowledge, an example of the method for setting transfer prices for selected controlled transaction is elaborated. In final part of this thesis, the results are evaluated and recommendations for optimizing the tax liability of the company are determined by modifying the example.

Den ökade globalisering som råder gynnar internationell handel på många plan, vilket även har bidragit till att internprissättning blivit en allt mer central fråga. Däremot ställs det högre krav på att adressera de problem som systemet resulterar i. Detta med hänsyn till att ett internpris är av påverkande karaktär på organisationens resultat på grund av skattemässiga motiv och incitament från ledningen. Även om OECD:s riktlinjer TPG är utformade av det politiskt styrande organet i respektive medlemsland är dessa riktlinjer inte tvingande. Systemet möjliggör subjektivitet i internprissättning. Problematiken belyses i synnerhet när redovisningstraditioner och deras eventuella påverkan på internprissättningen i Sverige och Storbritannien tas i beaktning.Studien har som syfte att genom en komparativ analys undersöka hur Sveriges och Storbritanniens redovisningstraditioner påverkar respektive lands tolkning av TPG. Ländernas skattemyndigheter, Skatteverket och HMRC, har gett ut en handledning respektive en intern manual rörande internprissättning där myndighetens tolkning av TPG framgår.Studien är en innehållsanalys av kvalitativ karaktär och datamaterialet som har använts är textutdrag från myndigheternas handledning och manual samt respektive lands lagstiftning på vissa områden. Studien har som ambition att undersöka fyra områden avseende internprissättning, myndigheternas referering till gällande rätt, armlängdsprincipen, metoder för prissättning och bevisförfarande. Tolkningsmodellen som har använts i studien har utvecklats fram ifrån Johanssons (2010) modell avseende substance over form. Tolkningsmodellen tillsammans med den teoretiska referensramen har fungerat som ett verktyg i analysen kring hur redovisningstraditionerna i respektive land påverkar tolkningen av TPG.Studiens slutsats indikerar att det finns inslag av redovisningstraditionerna i respektive lands tolkning av TPG. Både Storbritannien och Sverige refererar till OECD kontinuerligt men studien har resulterat i vissa skillnader som belyser det faktum att länderna har olika redovisningstraditioner. I Skatteverkets handledning identifierar resultatet vissa inslag av den kontinentala redovisningstradition som Sverige präglas av, det påträffas även inslag av det regelbaserade synsättet samt spår av det rättssystem som karaktäriserar Sverige, code law. Resultatet visar även att Storbritanniens redovisningstraditioner framträder i HMRC:s tolkning av TPG. Det återfinns inslag av den anglosaxiska traditionen, det principbaserade synsättet och även här syns spår av deras rättssystem, common law. Studien bidrar med en ökad förståelse kring hur nationella redovisningstraditioner påverkar tolkningen av internationella riktlinjer. Den bidrar även med en praktisk kunskap för företag, myndigheter och internationella verkställande organ.
Increased globalization stimulates international trade in many ways. It has led to increased importance of transfer pricing. However, there is a need to address several issues that have arisen since a transfer price affects the organization's profit or loss due to tax consequences and incentives from management. Although the guidelines known as TPG are drafted by the governments in members’ states, these guidelines are not mandatory. The system allows for subjectivity in transfer pricing. The problem is can be demonstrated by comparing the accounting traditions and their possible impact on transfer pricing in Sweden and the UK.The purpose of the study is to investigate how Sweden's and Britain's accounting traditions affect the countries' interpretation of the TPG. The tax authorities of these countries, the Swedish Tax Agency and HMRC, have each issued a guide and an internal manual on transfer pricing, which explains the authorities’ interpretation of the TPG. The aim of the study is to make a comparative analysis of these guides and internal manuals to see if and how the countries’ interpretation of the TPG differ due to the countries’ accounting traditions. Further, the study is a content analysis of qualitative nature and the data used has been extracted from the authorities' guide and internal manual, as well as the legislation of each country in certain areas. The aim of the study is to investigate four areas of transfer pricing, the authorities' reference to current law, the arm's length principle, pricing methods and evidence procedures. The research model used in this study has been developed from Johanssons (2010) model regarding substance over form. The resarch model together with the theoretical reference framework have served as a tool in the analysis of how accounting traditions in each country affect the interpretation of TPG.The study’s conclusion indicates that there are elements of accounting traditions in each country’s interpretation of TPG. Both the UK and Sweden refer to the OECD repeatedly but the study has resulted in some differences highlighting the fact that the countries have different accounting traditions. In the Swedish Tax Agency’s guidance, the result identifies certain elements of the continental accounting tradition that Sweden is characterized by, it also finds elements of the rule-based approach as well as traces of the legal system code law that characterizes Sweden. Likewise, the result also shows that Britain's accounting traditions appear in HMRC's interpretation of TPG. There are elements of Anglo-Saxon tradition, the principle-based approach, and also traces of their legal system common law. The study contributes to an increased understanding of how national accounting traditions affect the interpretation of international guidelines. It also provides useful information for companies, authorities and international executive agencies.This paper is hereinafter written in Swedish.

This master´s thesis deals with setting a transfer price of controlled transaction between associated enterprises. The goal is to choose the appropriate method for setting transfer prices for controlled transaction of selected associated enterprises and to compare the set transfer prices with prearranged transfer prices stated in the contract between selected associated enterprises. The thesis contains the theoretical basis and legal regulations for transfer prices, possible solutions to the problem of the setting transfer price, procedure for determining transfer price and recommendations for companies on the subject. The final part of the thesis reviews findings from the practical part and offers arising from the reviewed findings.

The goal of the diploma thesis is to describe problems of accounting valuation and issues connected with prices, which are used for income tax purposes within current valid legislation. The thesis decribes basic valuation principles, characterization and valuation methods of some selected section according to the Czech legislation and IFRS. The thesis compares advantages and disadvantages of some valuation methods and valuation base and their influence on taxes. At the end of the thesis is the issue of transfer pricing or accounting valuation in insolvency.

Den ständigt ökande internationaliseringen leder till framkomsten av allt fler multinationella företag med verksamheter inom flera länder. En konsekvens av den ökade globaliseringen är att den internationella skatteflykten allt jämt ökat, då internationella koncerner väljer att flytta delar av vinsten till länder med mer förmånliga skattesatser. Ett sätt för de multinationella företagen att minimera den världsomfattande skatten är genom internprissättning. Internprissättning är det pris som koncernen sätter på sina interna transaktioner mellan koncernbolagen. Som en reaktion på den ökade skatteflykten utformade Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) riktlinjer för att vägleda regleringen av internprissättning. Syftet med riktlinjerna är att främja en harmonisering bland medlemsländerna för att minska antal konflikter mellan nationella lagstiftningar ur ett internationellt perspektiv och för att minska uppkomsten av dubbelbeskattning. Den grundprincip riktlinjerna utgår ifrån kallas för armlängdsprincipen. Armlängdsprincipen innebär att det koncerninterna priset ska motsvara det pris två oberoende företag hade fått betala för motsvarande transaktion. För att uppnå en ökad transparens och likformighet, anför även OECD:s riktlinjer hur de interna transaktionerna ska dokumenteras. Ett sätt att dokumentera transaktionerna på är genom att upprätta en land-för-land-rapport, vars syfte är att tillhandahålla skattemyndigheter viktig information och underlag för bedömning av koncerners prissättningar. Syftet med studien är att jämföra reglerna kring internprissättning i Sverige, Japan och Ryssland. I studien jämför vi skattelagstiftningarna för att undersöka vilka skillnader det finns inom de tre länderna med hänseende till internprissättning. Studien syftar även till att utreda om och i så fall varför ländernas skattelagstiftningar skiljer sig åt. För att uppfylla studiens syfte genomförde vi en komparativ analys, med ett kvalitativt förhållningssätt, där vi jämförde och analyserade studiens empiriska material. Det empiriska materialet består av ländernas nationella skattelagstiftning gällande internprissättning. I studiens analytiska skeende belyste vi de olikheter men även likheter vi kunde se vid jämförelsen. Dessa likheter och olikheter kopplade vi till den teoretiska referensram som vi i studien tagit fram för att på ett kvalitativt sätt kunna ge en förståelse för varför det finns skillnader, men även likheter, mellan de tre länderna. Slutsatsen som kan dras från studien är att det råder en frivillig harmonisering kring regleringen av internprissättning utifrån OECD:s riktlinjer inom de tre studerade länderna då vi funnit ytterst få skillnader mellan skattelagstiftningarna. Detta trots att OECD:s riktlinjer inte är tvingande på något sätt och trots att Ryssland inte är ett medlemsland i OECD, något som däremot både Sverige och Japan är. De skillnader som vi har kunnat se i den komparativa analysen har vi kunnat förklara genom att se till Hofstedes kulturella dimensioner och ländernas index inom respektive dimension. Skillnaderna har även kunnat förklaras genom att kopplas till ländernas kontinentala samt kommunistiska tradition. De likheter vi sett har vi däremot gett förståelse för genom att studera dem ur ett mimetiskt perspektiv av isomorfa processer, exempelvis utifrån Rysslands tillämpning av OECD:s riktlinjer. Studien bidrar med en fördjupad förståelse för OECD:s harmoniseringsarbete gällande internprissättning, samt en förståelse för hur regleringen ser ut inom de tre länderna och vilka skillnader det finns mellan dem.
The ever increasing internationalization leads to the emergence of increasingly multinational companies with operations in several countries. One consequence of the increased globalization is that international tax evasion has increased ever since international groups choose to move parts of profits to countries with more favorable tax rates. One way for the multinational companies to minimize the worldwide tax is through transfer pricing. Transfer pricing is the price which multinational companies uses for its internal transactions between its subsidiaries. As a response to the increased tax evasion, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) designed guidelines to guide the regulation of transfer pricing. The aim of the guidelines is to promote harmonization among member states in order to reduce the number of conflicts between national laws from an international perspective and to reduce the occurrence of double taxation. The basic principle of the guidelines is called the arm's length principle. The arm's length principle states that the intra-group price should correspond to the price that two independent companies has to pay for the corresponding transaction. In order to achieve increased transparency and uniformity, the OECD guidelines also cite how internal transactions are to be documented. One way of documenting the transactions is by establishing a country-by-country report, whose purpose is to provide tax authorities with important information and basis for assessing transfer prices. The aim of the study is to compare the rules for transfer pricing in Sweden, Japan, and Russia. In the study, we compare tax laws to investigate the differences between the three countries in terms of transfer pricing. The study also aims at investigating why the tax laws of the countries differ. In order to fulfill the purpose of the study we conducted a comparative analysis, with a qualitative approach, where we compared and analyzed the empirical material of the study. The empirical material consists of the countries' national tax laws concerning transfer pricing. In the analytical stages of the study we highlighted the differences, but also the similarities, we could see in comparison. These similarities and differences were linked to the theoretical framework that we developed in the study to qualitatively provide an understanding of why there are differences, but also similarities, between the three countries. The conclusion that can be derived from the study is that there is a non-compulsory harmonization regarding the regulation of transfer pricing based on OECD's guidelines in the three studied countries where we found very few differences between the tax laws. This despite the fact that the OECD's Guidelines are not compelling in any way. Also so, even though Russia is not a member state in the OECD, which, on the other hand, both Sweden and Japan is. We have been able to explain the differences we have seen in the comparative analysis by looking at Hofstede’s cultural dimensions and the countries' cultural dimension indices. The differences have also been explained by the continental and communistic tradition of the countries. However, the similarities we have seen have been understood by studying them from a mimetic perspective of isomorphic processes, for example Russia's application of the OECD guidelines. The study contributes to a deeper understanding of OECD's work towards harmonization of transfer pricing, as well as a sense of how the three countries regulate transfer pricing and what differences there are between them.

The master´s thesis deals with the issue of setting transfer prices for management services between associated enterprises. The thesis contains a theoretical definition of basic concepts and analysis of legislation. The content of the analytical part of the thesis is the analysis of the current state and analysis of case law. The theoretical background is applied in the practical part to a model example which is determined by setting transfer price for management services between internal associated enterprises.

The fast Fourier transform (FFT), even though it has been widely applicable in Physics and Engineering, it has become attractive in Finance as well for it’s enhancement of computational speed. Carr and Madan succeeded in implementing the FFT for pricing of an option. This project, inspired by Carr and Madan’s paper, attempts to elaborate and connect the various mathematical and theoretical concepts that are helpful in understanding of the derivation. Further, we derive the characteristic function of the risk neutral probability for the logarithmic terminal stock price. The Black-Scholes-Merton (BSM) model is also revised including derivation of the partial deferential equation and the formula. Finally, comparison of the BSM numerical implementation with and without the FFT method is done using MATLAB.

Thesis (MSc (Mathematics))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis, we discuss and apply the Monte Carlo and integral transform methods in pricing options. These methods have proved to be very e ective in the valuation of options especially when acceleration techniques are introduced. By rst pricing European call options we have motivated the use of these methods in pricing arithmetic Asian options which have proved to be di cult to price and hedge under the Black􀀀Scholes framework. The arithmetic average of the prices in this framework, is a sum of correlated lognormal distributions whose distribution does not admit a simple analytic expression. However, many approaches have been reported in the academic literature for pricing these options. We provide a hedging strategy by manipulating the results by Geman and Yor [42] for continuous xed strike arithmetic Asian call options. We then derive a double Laplace transform formula for pricing continuous Asian call options following the approach by Fu et al. [39]. By applying the multi-Laguerre and iterated Talbot inversion techniques for Laplace transforms to the resulting pricing formula we obtain the option prices. Finally, we discuss the shortcomings of using the Laplace transform in pricing options.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie tesis bespreek ons Monte Carlo- en integraaltransform metodes om die pryse van nansi ele opsies te bepaal. Hierdie metodes is baie e ektief, veral wanneer versnellingsmetodes ingevoer word. Ons bepaal eers die pryse van Europese opsies as motivering, voordat ons die bostaande metodes gebruik vir prysbepaling van Asiatiese opsies met rekenkundige gemiddeldes, wat baie moeiliker is om te hanteer in die Black􀀀Scholes raamwerk. Die rekenkundige gemiddelde van batepryse in hierdie raamwerk is 'n som van gekorreleerde lognormale distribusies wie se distribusie nie oor 'n eenvoudige analitiese vorm beskik nie. Daar is egter talle benaderings vir die prysbepaling van hierdie opsies in die akademiese literatuur. Ons bied 'n verskansingsstrategie vir Asiatiese opsies in kontinue tyd met 'n vaste trefprys aan deur die resultate van Geman en Yor [42] te manipuleer. Daarna volg ons Fu et al. [39] om 'n dubbele Laplace transform formule vir die pryse af te lei. Deur toepassing van multi-Laguerre en herhaalde Talbotinversie tegnieke vir Laplace transforms op hierdie formule, bepaal ons dan die opsiepryse. Ons sluit af met 'n bespreking van die tekortkominge van die gebruik van die Laplace transform vir prysbepaling.

The purpose of this master’s thesis is to examine and analyse how a transfer pricing adjustment is made and how related parties should handle price adjustments from a customs perspective in Sweden. The examination includes describing the valuation methods available for transfer pricing and customs valuation with regards to related parties. In addition, the differences in connection to the valuation are described and analysed.

Goods imported to Sweden must be cleared through customs: the importer presents a customs declaration to the Swedish Customs and pays customs duty. The customs duty is calculated using a customs value and customs valuation is the system that enables the importer to establish correct customs values on imported goods. Transfer pricing is the determination of prices on transactions taken place between companies belonging to the same group and has a direct effect on the income tax payable. There are six customs valuation methods that are hierarchically applied and six transfer pricing methods that are applied somewhat differently. There are similarities between the methods and most of the customs valuation methods have a corresponding transfer pricing method, or vice versa. Even if there are similarities, many factors make reconciliation of the methods difficult. Such factors are the different time for assessing the value and that the customs valuation methods are applied in a strictly hierarchical way with no possibility to choose the most suitable method.

Customs duties and transfer pricing both share the same valuation concept, although interpreted differently, being that the value shall be based on the price that the parties would arrive at under open market conditions. However, relevant values on the same transaction differ significantly due to trying to be in accordance with respective rules. The differences in expectations and the conflicting interests on the outcome of the valuation lead to problems in the tax field. As a conclusion, customs valuation and transfer pricing can undeniably be described as “the two opposing and necessary sides of the same ‘coin’, whose respective values unavoidably affect the whole balance of a system of closely connected valuation”.

In order for related parties to use the transaction value method, which is the superior customs valuation method, the price must not have been influenced due to their relationship. If one of two tests prescribed by law can prove that the relationship has not influenced the price, the related parties can use the transaction value method to establish the customs value. If the transaction value, for some reason cannot be used, the importer has to address other options on to how to establish the customs value.

The conclusion of this master’s thesis is that related parties should include a price review clause in their contract or pricing policy. The company should notify the Swedish Customs about the provisional price and make an incomplete customs declaration. When information enabling the calculation of the customs value is available, the importer should file a complementary declaration. As an alternative, the importer should declare an open claim to the Swedish Customs arguing that the transaction value cannot be applied and, as a consequence thereof, explain in the customs value declaration why the applied customs value is correct.

This thesis provides three recommendations concerning how to deal with the complications of customs valuation and transfer pricing. The first recommendation is that rules and recommendations surrounding transfer pricing and customs valuation should, to the extent possible, be harmonised. The second recommendation is that co-operation between the Swedish Tax Agency and the Swedish Customs must improve, for example through advance pricing arrangements for both transfer pricing and customs purposes, documentation requirements, and joint audits. The third recommendation is that related parties should take the same care and documentation approach for customs purposes as it does for transfer pricing. Importing companies should make a price review clause in their contract before the importation and present an incomplete customs declaration. This way, in case of adjustments, the related party is able to uphold an arm’s length standard on the price and has the possibility to use the preferred transaction value for customs purposes, if that is desirable.

This thesis focuses on the numerical calculation of fluctuation identities with both dis- crete and continuous monitoring and the wider application of finding a general numerical solution to the Wiener-Hopf equation on a semi-infinite or finite interval. The motivating application is pricing path-dependent options. It is demonstrated that, with the use of spectral filters, exponential convergence can be achieved for the pricing of discretely monitored double-barrier options. We thus describe the first exponentially convergent pricing method for this type of option with general L ́evy processes and a CPU time which is independent of the number of monitoring dates. Using a numerical implementation of the inverse Laplace transform, the numerical method to calculate fluctuation identities is extended to continuous monitoring. This pro- vides the first method for calculating continuously monitored fluctuation identities which can be used for general L ́evy processes. Furthermore a detailed error bound is obtained, providing additional insight into the pricing methods based on fluctuation identities and the numerical solution of the Wiener-Hopf equation in general. Pricing algorithms for other exotic options such as α-quantile, perpetual Bermudan and perpetual American options are also devised and a new method to compute the optimal exercise boundary for the latter two types of contract is presented. These methods show excellent error performance with computational time. Finally, an application of these new numerical methods to the general solution of the Wiener-Hopf equation is presented. The methods are applied to three new test cases which we derived analytically and the results are presented to show that this new method has an error convergence with grid size which has twice the speed of the current state of the art.

The thesis deals with finding definition characters of agents as permanent establishments (dependent agents) available from publicly accessible sources, including its negative definition in comparison with the concept of an independent agent. The second part of the thesis analyses all possible and suggested ways of tax base creation, i.e. application of substitute methods of profit assessment and tax base enumeration from accounting profit or difference between revenues and expenses. Further this part of the thesis focuses on the issue of appropriateness of the Proposal for a Council Directive COM(2011) 0121 of 16 March 2011 on a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) for dependent agent's purpose. Used methods include analogy, analysis, synthesis, deduction and comparison.

Jump-diffusion models can under certain assumptions be expressed as partial integro-differential equations (PIDE). Such a PIDE typically involves a convection term and a nonlocal integral like for the here considered models of Merton and Kou. We transform the PIDE to eliminate the convection term, discretize it implicitly using finite differences and the second order backward difference formula (BDF2) on a uniform grid. The arising dense linear system is solved by an iterative method, either a splitting technique or a circulant preconditioned conjugate gradient method. Exploiting the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) yields the solution in only $O(n\log n)$ operations and just some vectors need to be stored. Second order accuracy is obtained on the whole computational domain for Merton's model whereas for Kou's model first order is obtained on the whole computational domain and second order locally around the strike price. The solution for the PIDE with convection term can oscillate in a neighborhood of the strike price depending on the choice of parameters, whereas the solution obtained from the transformed problem is stabilized.
Master of Science

Symbole de la souveraineté de l'État, le droit fiscal est fortement éprouvé par la mondialisation.Les prix de transfert en sont un témoignage éloquent. Les règles en matière de détermination desprix de transfert ne garantissent pas un résultat exact. Le principe de pleine concurrence estd'application délicate. Les comparables qui en assurent la bonne application ne sont pas toujoursdisponibles. Dès lors, la justification des prix de transfert est souvent difficile et parfoisimpossible. À ce titre, la réglementation sénégalaise doit être mise à jour, notamment dans le sensde prévoir les méthodes nouvelles de détermination des prix de transfert et des obligationsdocumentaires spécifiques.Du fait du caractère limité du contrôle unilatéral des prix de transfert, les États développent deplus en plus la coopération internationale. Mais, pour utile qu'elle soit, la coopération fiscaledemeure elle aussi limitée. C'est pourquoi, le Sénégal doit s'inspirer de l'expérience des pays del'OCDE pour instituer une politique d'accords préalables en matière de prix de transfert. De lamême manière, il est nécessaire d'instituer, à titre transitoire, un régime de protection fiscale. Cesmécanismes de contractualisation et de facilitation fiscales sont très efficaces, mais demeurentégalement limités.Le meilleur moyen de contrôler les prix de transfert qui sont un phénomène transnational estd'adopter une stratégie au niveau supranational. La communauté des États ne saurait fairel'économie de la création d'un ordre fiscal mondial. Ce nouvel ordre devra reposer sur une lexfiscalia et une aequitas fiscalia vectrices d'un droit commun fiscal mondialisé élaboré et mis enoeuvre à travers une véritable gouvernance fiscale mondiale qui ne doit pas laisser en rade lespays en développement, sous la supervision d'un observatoire mondial des prix de transfert et lecontrôle d'un tribunal fiscal international.

The present diploma thesis is focused on the definition of differences resulting from the comparison of two chosen forms of doing business of a foreign person in the Czech Republic. It specifies differences from the viewpoint of the commercial law and the obligations as an accounting unit. Foremost, the thesis includes a detailed analysis from a tax point of view. The thesis involves a model example to define the precise amount of tax obligation incumbent on the both forms of business of a foreign person in the Czech Republic. This model example constitutes a basis for the final evaluation and to draw relevant conclusions. Suggestions and recommendations mentioned in this work can serve as an overview of the approach to the taxation of cross-border income and at the same time as a tool for the elimination of errors and discrepancies in connection with the chosen form of business of a foreign person in the Czech Republic.

Conic finance is a brand new quantitative finance theory. The thesis is on the applications of conic finance on South African Financial Markets. Conic finance gives a new perspective on the way people should perceive financial markets. Particularly in incomplete markets, where there are non-unique prices and the residual risk is rampant, conic finance plays a crucial role in providing prices that are acceptable at a stress level. The theory assumes that price depends on the direction of trade and there are two prices, one for buying from the market called the ask price and one for selling to the market called the bid price. The bid-ask spread reects the substantial cost of the unhedgeable risk that is present in the market. The hypothesis being considered in this thesis is whether conic finance can reduce the residual risk? Conic finance models bid-ask prices of cashows by applying the theory of acceptability indices to cashows. The theory of acceptability combines elements of arbitrage pricing theory and expected utility theory. Combining the two theories, set of arbitrage opportunities are extended to the set of all opportunities that a wide range of market participants are prepared to accept. The preferences of the market participants are captured by utility functions. The utility functions lead to the concepts of acceptance sets and the associated coherent risk measures. The acceptance sets (market preferences) are modeled using sets of probability measures. The set accepted by all market participants is the intersection of all the sets, which is convex. The size of this set is characterized by an index of acceptabilty. This index of acceptability allows one to speak of cashows acceptable at a level, known as the stress level. The relevant set of probability measures that can value the cashows properly is found through the use of distortion functions. In the first chapter, we introduce the theory of conic finance and build a foundation that leads to the problem and objectives of the thesis. In chapter two, we build on the foundation built in the previous chapter, and we explain in depth the theory of acceptability indices and coherent risk measures. A brief discussion on coherent risk measures is done here since the theory of acceptability indices builds on coherent risk measures. It is also in this chapter, that some new acceptability indices are introduced. In chapter three, focus is shifted to mathematical tools for financial applications. The chapter can be seen as a prerequisite as it bridges the gap from mathematical tools in complete markets to incomplete markets, which is the market that conic finance theory is trying to exploit. As the chapter ends, models used for continuous time modeling and simulations of stochastic processes are presented. In chapter four, the attention is focussed on the numerical methods that are relevant to the thesis. Details on obtaining parameters using the maximum likelihood method and calibrating the parameters to market prices are presented. Next, option pricing by Fourier transform methods is detailed. Finally a discussion on the bid-ask formulas relevant to the thesis is done. Most of the numerical implementations were carried out in Matlab. Chapter five gives an introduction to the world of option trading strategies. Some illustrations are used to try and explain the option trading strategies. Explanations of the possible scenarios at the expiration date for the different option strategies are also included. Chapter six is the appex of the thesis, where results from possible real market scenarios are presented and discussed. Only numerical results were reported on in the thesis. Empirical experiments could not be done due to limitations of availabilty of real market data. The findings from the numerical experiments showed that the spreads from conic finance are reduced. This results in reduced residual risk and reduced low cost of entering into the trading strategies. The thesis ends with formal discussions of the findings in the thesis and some possible directions for further research in chapter seven.
Thesis (MSc (Risk Analysis))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013.

Following thesis focuses on analysis of using five basic transfer pricing methods mentioned in the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines in the conditions of the Czech Republic (comparable uncontrolled method, resale-price method, cost plus method, profit split method, transactional net margin method). There are mentioned the problems connected with application of these methods and also suggestions how to fix them. In this respect thesis contains comparable, functional and economic analysis. As a part of the thesis there is an example of the transfer pricing documentation using cost plus method. Next there are noted the ways and criteria of selecting an appropriate method. There are also solved some tax aspects of determining the transfer prices.

Globaliseringen bidrar till en ökad världshandel och medför även ett växande antal gränsöverskridande koncerninterna transaktioner inom multinationella företag. Prissättningen av transaktioner vilka vidtas mellan närstående företag måste ske i enlighet med armlängdsprincipen som om transaktionerna vidtagits mellan två oberoende företag. Skattemyndigheterna kan justera internpriserna i slutet av beskattningsåret i de fall de anser att internprissättningen avviker från armlängdsprincipen och marknadsmässiga villkor. Utöver inkomstbeskattning åläggs företagen att betala tullavgifter i samband med transaktioner vidtagna med närstående företag etablerade utanför EU. I likhet med skattemyndigheterna granskar tullmyndigheterna företagens importpriser i syfte att säkerställa att parternas närståenderelation inte påverkat prissättningen. Båda myndigheterna arbetar således för samma mål, att upprätthålla prissättningens förenlighet med marknadsmässiga villkor. Skatte- och tullmyndigheterna tillämpar dock olika prissättningsmetoder i syfte att uppnå målet. Inkomstskatten baseras på företagens totala inkomster, relaterade till transaktionerna och tullavgiften beräknas baserat på varje specifik transaktion och vara. Det faktum att myndigheterna inkluderar olika tillgångar i de respektive beskattningsunderlagen kan medföra att de bedömer värdet av samma transaktion olika. Varierande bedömningar av samma pris kan vidare medföra krav på olika prisjusteringar i syfte att uppnå marknadsmässig prissättning. Prisjusteringar kan leda till onödiga skattetillägg och liknande straffavgifter. Det föreligger svårigheter för multinationella företag att bestämma transaktionspriser som uppfyller båda myndigheternas i syfte att undvika straffavgifter.     Problematiken är ännu relativt ouppmärksammad av företag i världen. I amerikansk praxis framkommer att möjligheterna är små för företag att förlita sig på dokumentation upprättad för internprissättning, i syfte att styrka tullavgifter och tullvärde. Det är således betydelsefullt att företag upprättar dokumentationer för både internprissättning och tullvärde för att undvika straffavgifter. Dokumentationen utgör huvudsakligt bevis och ligger till grund för bedömningen av huruvida företagen uppfyllt bevisbördan avseende prisernas förenlighet med marknadsmässiga villkor. Företagen bör etablera en öppen kommunikation med de respektive myndigheterna i syfte att minimera risker för missförstånd eventuella framtida prisjusteringar. Det är bättre att förekomma än att förekommas.
The ‘arm’s length principle’ is fundamental to transfer pricing and cross-border intercompany transactions. The principle states that the prices charged for transactions of goods between related parties must be the same as if the parties were unrelated. Simply, the price needs to equal market values. If the Tax Authority finds the pricing to be inconsistent with the arm’s length principle, the price may be adjusted. In relation to cross-border intercompany transactions outside of the EU, companies have to pay customs duty and regard customs values. The Customs Authorities work to ensure that the price has not been influenced by the intercompany relationship. Thus, the Tax and Customs Authorities share the same goal, which is to ensure that the transaction price is consistent with market values. However, the methods of pursuing the goal differ. The Tax Authorities determine the amount of income tax based on the company’s total revenues deriving from cross-border intragroup transactions. The Customs Authorities on the contrary determine the amount of taxable income based on the value of every specific imported product. The authorities usually consider different values and assets when determining the amount of taxable income. Therefore the same transaction price may be evaluated differently by the Tax and Customs authorities. Price adjustments may be made if the transaction price is considered to differ in relation to market values. Thus, the companies may be obligated to pay tax surcharges or similar monetary penalties. The authorities’ different assessments of the same transaction price may result in difficulties for multinational enterprises in their efforts of meeting both requirements. The problem is regarded in varying degrees in different countries. In American precedent the court has determined the opportunities to be low for companies to depend on transfer pricing documentation when supporting customs value. It is important for companies to keep detailed documentation of both transfer pricing and customs valuation. The documentation serve as vital evidence when proving the compatibility of transaction prices with market values. Companies should also establish good communications with the authorities in order to prepare them for potential future price adjustments.  Prevention is better than cure.

碩士
龍華科技大學
資訊管理系碩士班
101
Vietnamese economy that was centralized bureaucracy for decades is now in the process of transition to market economy according to the socialist orientation. Technology transfer activities and technology market in Vietnam have been developing. However, determining technology pricing activities have just mentioned in recent times and preparing for the first step. Therefore, the study of determining technology pricing methods to develop the technology market, and promote technology transfer activities is essential and urgent. In the thesis, author briefly introduces the nature and goals of the technology, the technology market situation in Vietnam and other forms of technology transfer.... In addition, author delves into the study, analyse several valuation methods which are applying in the world as well as in Vietnam and how current valuation methods applied in technology transfer projects and business assets valuation. Through comparative method and critical analysis of the state legislation, documents relating to technology valuation, and with the usage of expert panel to consult experts in the fields related to technology and in-depth analysis of a scenario project (case study) namely technology patent valuation of Green Environmental Corporation, authors have proposed evaluation methods and technology in the technology transfer project in accordance with the actual conditions in Vietnam. On that basis, author has some recommendations on mechanisms and policies as well as the role of the agencies in the valuation of technology activities are developed and more accurate to boost market technology in Vietnam. However, due to the limit of time and study scope, so within the framework of this study thesis, the author mentions only a fraction of determining technology pricing activities of several technology transfer projects in some typical areas, with the desire to help determining technology pricing activities to be more accuracy in order to improve the efficiency of technology transfer projects.

Transfer prices are used by the majority of firms worldwide when intermediate products or services are transferred within the same organization. These prices are reported as revenue for the selling entity (division, unit, department etc.) and as cost for the buying entity. Nevertheless, transfer prices lead to many disputes among managers in the same organization as transfer prices influence the performance of their entities. In cross-border transactions, transfer prices can be used by firms to reduce corporate taxes and thus, increase total firm profits. In order to fight against this firms’ practice, tax authorities require firms to establish a transfer pricing system in accordance with OECD1 Transfer Pricing Guidelines.

碩士
開南大學
商學院碩士在職專班
101
This research analyzed the result by adopting the various Arm's length methods in connection with transfer intangible assets. We found that differnet method leads to different result. However, it always raises the dispute between the tax collection authority and the taxpayer. Suggestions are made as following: (1)the package of transaction should be evaluated separately；(2)the application of an Advance Pricing Arrangement by the tax collection authorities would avoid the litigation of tax adjustment and the question of doule taxation；(3) a database of Arm’s length transaction of the transfer and use of intangible assets must be established；(4)the signature of the cost sharing agreements could share the expenses and risks in the research and development process of the intangible assets；(5)the establishment of Safe Harbors of the intangible assets by the Ministry of Finance of ROC has somplified the obligation of a profit-seeking enterprise in the process of intangible assets transaction；and (6)an ad hoc group is suggested to form in responsible for checking the the transaction of intangible assets.

O objetivo principal deste estudo de caso foi a realização das tarefas conducentes a elaboração do dossier de preços de transferência da empresa João Serras, Lda., empresamãe de um grupo nacional de pequena dimensão. A tarefa mais importante associada a este Projeto foi a prova de aplicação do Principio da Plena Concorrência nas operações vinculadas entre as duas entidades relacionadas (a João Serras, Lda e a Distrityres, Lda). Foi selecionado o método do Preço de Revenda Minorado, o qual foi aplicado tendo por base a comparação da margem bruta média de 3 anos de um referencial de mercado com a margem bruta média do setor dos pneus da João Serras, Lda. (setor onde ocorrem as operações vinculadas). Foi possível determinar que a margem bruta de comercialização da João Serras, Lda se enquadrava dentro do intervalo de plena concorrência, confirmando-se a aplicação do referido princípio. Verificou-se, ainda, não existir um regime simplificado que permita, de uma forma menos complexa e com menos custos de contexto, demonstrar a aplicação do princípio da plena concorrência para realidades com esta dimensão
The main objective of this case study was to carry out the tasks leading to the preparation of the transfer price dossier of João Serras, Lda, the parent company of a small national group. The most important task associated with this Project was to proof the application of the Arm’s Length Principle to the related-party transactions occurred between the two entities (João Serras, Lda and Distrityres, Lda). The method of the reduced resale price was selected and applied based on the comparison of the 3-year average gross margin of a market benchmark with the average gross margin of the tire sector of João Serras, Lda. (where the related-party transactions occur). It was possible to determine that Joao Serras, Lda’s gross margin was within the range of full competition, confirming the application of the Arm’s Length Principle to this case. In addition, we verify that does not exist a simplified regime adapted to the dimension of these small group aiming to comply with this obligation with less compliance costs.

The aim of the thesis is the analysis and evaluation of the application of transfer (transfer) the prices used in transactions of multinational enterprises in terms of tax administration. Generally describe the basic principles of the United people, the principle of the arm, the methods of the determination of the transfer pricing and documentation for transfer prices in accordance with the international rules and standards laid down by the Organization for economic cooperation and development, in accordance with the laws and guidelines of the Czech Republic. Furthermore, this thesis seeks to clarify the specific case studies, which are based on the practice of financial management, and the case-law, the effects of the determination of the transfer pricing methods, comparison of their advantages and disadvantages in establishing transfer prices in the Czech Republic. At the conclusion of the thesis summed up the results and recommend the adoption of more appropriate legislation in each of the areas of transfer pricing in the Czech Republic.

碩士
逢甲大學
財稅所
97
In recent years, as Taiwan''s industry expedites the internationalization and globalization, it becomes the trend that multinational corporations cooperate cross different countries. The affiliated corporations who deliver and transfer their products, services as well as intangible assets internally may result in the issue of transfer pricing. Therefore, Taiwan government released Regulations Governing of Assessment of Profit-Seeking Enterprise Income Tax on Non-Arm''s-Length Transfer Pricing at the end of 2004 in order to keep the development of international tax in line with international standards, which will further ensure the tax revenue as well as maintain the equity and justice of taxation. Take the following case for study. According to Arm’s-length Principle、The Adoption of The Most Appropriate Arm’s-length Method、The Evaluation on a Specific Transaction Basis、The Use of the current year data、The Use ofArm’s-length range、the Analysis of Reasons for losses、Separate Evaluation of Revenues and Expenditures should follow Regulations Governing of Assessment of Profit-Seeking Enterprise Income Tax on Non-Arm''s-Length Transfer Pricing.This study also found that even in the same database，the selections by different criteria or different regions will generate a different range of Arm’s-length Range. This usually causes a dispute between tax collection authorities-in-charge and taxpayers. Practically speaking, it’s very hard to conduct the inspections of the controlled transactions between affiliated enterprises at the results of Arm’s-length, as it cannot be found out whether the affiliated companies should assess the revenue collection by the cost method, or be evaluated by the method of merger transactions. The CFC located in Tax heaven and the use of alternative capital financing of capital dilution become a common business tool for tax evasion. The result of this study by investigating for cases shows you how to improve the measurements when using the methods of transfer pricing. The Tax Bureau in the consideration of building up a healthy national infrastructure of transfer pricing，it is recommended that the regulations of the cost of the relevant provisions of the agreement system, the taxation system of the controlled foreign corporation (CFC) and the addition of dilution of the capital and set the terms of the safe harbor capital liabilities ratio should be established.

碩士
逢甲大學
財稅所
96
Abstract Title of Thesis: The study on Taiwan Transfer Pricing – Probit Method Name of Student: Liu, Hui-Fang Advisor:Hsieh,Yao-Chih, Ph.D Total pages: 60 pages Monthly/year: 07/2008 Key Words: Transfer Pricing. Tax Heaven. Non-arms’length Transaction Abstract: In order to maximize the profit of group and follow the trend of globalization, many companies establish multinational enterprises attempt to reduce the burden of taxation and manage earnings through transfer pricing between affiliated companies. However, each country in order to safeguard taxation, the government of organization has legislated to prevent the corroding of tax revenues by intercompany transaction. This research use the data of companies listed in Taiwan Stock Exchange from 1997 to 2006. By using “Probit” method, this study probe into the factors which affect companies if they will employ transfer pricing between the parent company in Taiwan and subsidiaries in Mainland China. Also, the correlations between these factors will be investigated. Conclusions in this study are as follows: In our study, companies which have higher return on asset(ROA), higher financial leverage(LEV), large scale (SIZE), higher operation cash flow(OCF) and higher growth rate will not use transfer pricing to manipulate their earnings and generate maximum group’s profits.

碩士
國立臺灣大學
財務金融學研究所
95
In pricing CDOs, the correlation between assets is a major issue. A multi-asset joint distribution function is too complicated to transform to a loss distribution. Chen and Zang developed a method to price a large credit portfolio. This method is composed of two elements: Factor model and Fourier inversion. This thesis generalizes their method. We assume that there are two common factors, and all assets have their own correlations with the common factors. Since the assets in a pool are not affected by only one common factor, and each asset has different degrees of influence over that common factor, we generalize the one-factor model with more accurate performance.

碩士
雲林科技大學
企業管理系碩士班
98
This thesis investigates the controlled transaction between the case-research company and it’s related enterprises which based on the current policy and regulation. Furthermore; the thesis is totally on the impartial foundation and combines the current regulation and the company which pursuant to this regulation. Not only contains finished products, semi-finished products integrate with each other cope suppliers, but also contains the operation to provide guidance and production technology, that is including the licensing and production for know-how intangible assets such as supply, lacking of suitable comparable objects, hoping the profits-split methods can provide the best resolutions.(Residual Profit-Split Method). Firstly, according to business function analysis, divided each company’s deserved profits from related company’s amalgamation surplus, and then create a residual income based on each company to create the basis of intangible assets - cost of labor and the research and development spending, as separate factors, the remaining proportion of profits allocated to each enterprise. In other words, Firstly, Using any other sub-routine activities, income to value it’s available. Secondly, to allocate the remaining income in all relative value of intangible assets contributed. Finally, to make a comparable profit method to confirm the range of Arm’s Length Principle based on Residual Profit-Split Method is suitable for the aforementioned theories. The results shows that in this case study, the company no matter confirm by residual profits-split methods or the comparable-profits methods, they have to face the risk from the tax authority to adjust their taxes, and in the calculation of residual profit split method, by adjusting transfer pricing, the controlled company''s operating margin comparable profit method in the calculation of regular trading profits of the average interval is near the upper and lower limits of the same inspection for a suitable division factor. Taiwan’s current transfer pricing system, since lacks of confidence from the tax authority or the report, or immature technology on the audit, causing the government and taxpayers have lots of dispute and disagreement. Hoping with this study to provide the reference to related-authorities to make or revise the law, regulation or practical implement and promote the tax reform in Taiwan.

碩士
國立高雄應用科技大學
商務經營研究所
100
In recent years, in order to prevent the loss of tax revenue and to prohibit the multinational use of related party transactions to evade tax liability, tax authorities all over the world have issued regulations on auditing transfer pricing policy for multinational corporations. These regulations differ due to differences in laws, the audit priorities and checking means of transfer pricing reports. This study was based on the tax system of the Republic of China. According to the profit-seeking enterprise income tax irregularities, transfer pricing audit standards Article 22 provides the reasons for selecting optimal conventional trading methods. These are to analyze the case, assess the impact of variables, affect the degree of interaction among the various indexes, discuss its features, and provide suggestions. The study data lies in the sample companies and their subsidiaries’consolidated financial statements and uses the Taiwan Economic Journal Culture Co., Ltd. (JET) database from 2008 to 2011. This study applied a methodology of “System Dynamics.”The best regular trading method of sample companies is cost-plus method, via the dynamic analysis of proxy determinants. The proportion of related party transactions accounting for net sales and the cost-plus rate are the main factors that impact corporate profits and earnings distribution, and when local tax rates have changed and the enterprise begins productive specialization, we try to discuss the change in operating income and earnings policy. Conclusion: 1. System simulation found that the change in the proportion of related party transactions has a positive influence on corporate profits and earnings assigned. Therefore, enterprises can manipulate the profitability of the company and financial statements by changing the proportion of related party transactions. 2. When product sales to related parties and non-related cost increase rate decreases, it has a positive influence on earnings assigned, because the company sales to affiliates can plan the anticipated profits first, and then achieve pre-planned profits by using the cost-plus rate. 3. When multinational enterprises begin productive specialization, the parent company arranges to produce at a subsidiary where salaries are lower. Using the dynamic analysis of proxy determinants – changing payroll – we found that it reduces the corporate net income and earnings distribution to reduce volatility. Therefore, multinational corporations can reduce costs by productive specialization. We could set the cost-plus rate at the normal trading range to enhance corporate profits and manipulate the financial statements. 4. As higher taxes have a negative influence on company earnings distribution, we can also prove that the enterprises will carry out tax planning actively and hide profits in the lower tax zone or tax haven.

O assunto que nos propusemos analisar desenvolve-se em torno dos métodos de determinação de Preços de Transferência relativos a operações que envolvem intangíveis. Estamos perante uma matéria de grande relevância, que decorre de uma natural evolução da sociedade, onde o fenómeno da globalização impera. Assim sendo, a facilidade com que se consegue colocar em circulação uma grande diversidade de bens e de serviços, aliada à evolução tecnológica, exponencia massivamente o florescimento de ativos intangíveis. Estes, por sua vez, acrescentam uma mais-valia às empresas, contribuindo para as diferenciar nos mercados e, sobretudo, gerar maior riqueza. Esta nova e atual realidade económica traz consigo novos problemas e novos desafios aos Estados em matéria tributária, a que urge dar resposta. Referimo-nos, nomeadamente, ao problema de determinar o valor dos preços praticados nas operações que envolvem empresas de grupo. Efetivamente, perante tal desafio, demos especial enfoque à análise dos métodos disponíveis para efeitos de preços de transferência, no sentido de encontrar o mais adequado para responder à problemática em apreço. Por outro lado, abordamos a possibilidade de optar por uma solução alternativa aos preços de transferência, utilizando o método de repartição baseado numa fórmula de âmbito global. A reflexão a que nos dedicamos permitiu-nos conhecer e avaliar os pontos fortes e os pontos fracos de cada proposta de solução pelo que, atentas as circunstâncias da realidade atual, julgamos poder indicar a que nos parece mais ajustada designadamente o método do fracionamento do lucro. Em jeito de conclusão, devemos sublinhar que o presente trabalho constituiu uma oportunidade de excelência para aprofundar o saber acerca desta temática que, pela sua relevância, foi abordada de forma sucinta em algumas cadeiras ainda que não integrasse os respetivos conteúdos programáticos. Contribuiu, sobremaneira, para nos consciencializarmos de que se trata de uma matéria extremamente delicada e complexa, que continuará a ser objeto de novas investigações e de desenvolvimentos.
The subject we set ourselves to analyze is developed around the transfer pricing methods related to operations involving intangibles. We are facing a matter of great relevance, which results from a natural evolution of society, where the phenomenon of globalization reigns. Therefore, the ease with which a great diversity of goods and services can be put into circulation, allied to technological evolution, massively increases the flourishing of intangible assets. These, in turn, add value to companies, helping to differentiate them in the markets and, above all, generate greater wealth. This new and current economic reality brings with it new problems and new challenges for states in tax matters, which urgently need to be addressed. We refer, in particular, to the problem of determining the value of prices charged in transactions involving group companies. Indeed, in the face of such a challenge, we have focused on the analysis of the available methods for transfer pricing purposes, in order to find the most appropriate one to respond to the problem at hand. On the other hand, we address the possibility of opting for an alternative solution to transfer pricing, using the allocation method based on a global scope formula. The reflection to allowed us to know and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each proposed solution, so that, owing to the circumstances of the current reality, we believe we can indicate the one that seems more appropriate, namely, the method of profit split. In conclusion, we must emphasize that this study has been an excellent opportunity to deepen our knowledge about this theme which, due to its relevance, has been briefly addressed in some courses, even though it was not part of the respective syllabus. It contributed, above all, to make us aware that this is an extremely delicate and complex subject that will continue to be the object of further research and development.

K. Kaprová (2019): Revealed preferences for outdoor recreation in natural areas - Czech and European perspective Abstract of the Doctoral Dissertation The dissertation thesis focuses on the investigation and synthesis of recreation welfare benefits associated with natural areas in the Czech Republic and in Europe. The dissertation thesis consists of five case studies. These represent various geographic levels of analysis: the level of one single recreation locality, the national level that takes into account large natural recreation sites in the Czech Republic (including protected areas), and a synthesis of results of studies on the European level. The methodological approach is based on the theory of environmental economics and employs non-market valuation techniques based on methods of revealed preferences, namely the hedonic pricing method and two types of travel cost modelling. In Study I, we examine how the presence and characteristics of urban greenery affect property prices in Prague. The results confirm that proximity to greenery and its area are important determinants of housing prices in Prague, which means that residents realize the positive values provided by urban greenery, including recreational ecosystem service. Benefits to residents differ with the type of greenery. Urban forests have the...