Changes to German transfer pricing regulations affect PEs

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Changes to German transfer pricing regulations affect PEs

April 30 2012
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The German Ministry of Finance published a draft Bill of the Annual Tax Act for 2013. The publication, dated March 5 2012, will implement several EU as well as OECD regulations into the German Tax Law. Oliver Wehnert and Ivo Tankov of Ernst & Young explain what these changes mean for taxpayers and their transfer pricing operations.

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