APA trends in emerging markets

Sophie Harding

March 27 2014

As business operations in emerging markets increase, more countries are implementing and developing advance pricing agreement (APA) regimes. China, India and Turkey represent three different approaches but indicate that APAs are an increasingly popular option for taxpayers in certain situations.

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