Expert Analysis

Tax executives at the Asia Tax Executives' Forum had much on their minds, including a mounting compliance burden, the increasing aggression of the tax authorities in the region and pressure from management to generate revenue and cut costs

Alan Winston Granwell, Jeffrey Korenblatt and Evan Migdail from DLA Piper discuss the implications of Obama's plans for taxation of foreign income

Bankruptcy is a trying time for any company. For a business as large and as complex as Lehman Brothers, the process was and continues to be nothing short of traumatic. Working through the tax implications is a significant part of the work. Catherine Snowdon talks to Darryl Steinberg, managing director and senior tax counsel to Lehman Brothers Holdings and one of his chief advisers, Mike Lippman, managing director at Alvarez & Marsal Taxand

Sameer Nurmohamed, partner, Deloitte Legal Canada

George Ankomah, partner, Tax & Regulatory Services, Deloitte Africa (Ghana)

Senior McCarthy Tétrault tax practitioners highlight significant updates and implications for multinationals as Canada’s transfer pricing rules become more closely aligned with OECD guidance

Several South Korean transfer pricing cases have established clearer judicial standards emphasising robust comparability analysis and stronger functional and economic evidence. Yulchon tax partners provide practical insights for navigating the heightened requirements

Ichwan Sukardi and T Qivi Hady Daholi of RSM Indonesia examine how geopolitical conflict and economic volatility are reshaping transfer pricing risk and enforcement, with a particular focus on Southeast Asia and Indonesia

Monika Bieri and Daniel Schönenberger of Tax Partner use a Swiss lens to examine how workforce mobility is reshaping transfer pricing models, and why the location of key decision‑makers is becoming a critical tax risk

Jean-Michel Henry and Mona El-Begawi of Deloitte Luxembourg examine the complexities created by timing differences in Luxembourg, EU, and OECD tax regimes

Samuel Fernandes de Almeida of MFA Legal & Tech assesses whether Portugal’s 7.5% surcharge on non-residents aligns with the EU’s free movement of capital principle and passes the proportionality test

Iva Gyurova and Luca Derqui of Deloitte Luxembourg analyse landmark court decisions on intra-group financing, focusing on arm’s-length interest rates and their alignment with OECD transfer pricing guidance