On July 17, the OECD issued its final report on the attribution of profits to permanent establishments, reaffirming the “separate entity approach” that hypothesises a permanent establishment (PE) as a separate and distinct enterprise that may deserve additional compensation according to the arm’s-length principle. The report notes, say Brandon Feldman and Patrick Breslin of the Ballentine Barbera Group, that the OECD transfer pricing guidelines should apply in such cases.
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The US president also unveiled a new 50% levy on copper imports; in other news, a UK wealth tax proposal has been criticised by the Institute for Fiscal Studies
MNEs are increasingly using algorithmic tools in TP. Sahasranshu Dash argues that data ethics should therefore plug directly into the TP design process