Expert Analysis

Mike Roberts, managing director, corporate market for the tax & accounting business of Thomson Reuters looks at the major pitfalls companies operating in Europe should beware of if they want to avoid an indirect tax audit.

Michael Lennard, acting secretary, UN Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters, writing in a personal capacity, discusses the UN Practical Transfer Pricing Manual for Developing Countries, which was publicly launched on May 29.

Cagla Bekbolet runs the financial officers’ practice at global executive search firm Egon Zehnder. Multinationals who use her to find their next tax director are, more and more, looking for a new kind of professional who can deal with the challenges presented by the demand for increased transparency and the need for the management of a company’s tax affairs to enhance, or at least, not harm, its reputation. Salman Shaheen speaks to Bekbolet to find out what new skills are needed and where they can be found.

India’s transfer pricing overhaul expands safe harbours at scale and accelerates advance pricing agreements alongside the statutory recodification of the Income-tax Act, report Uday Ved, Hetav Vasani, and Jainesh Nahar of KNAV

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Jess Williams, Jimmy Man, and Olivier Hody of Deloitte explain how tax can be elevated from a post-close support function to a value-realisation tool in M&A transactions through quick wins and longer-term actions

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

India’s Finance Act, 2026 introduces a tax framework for foreign companies using local data centres but leaves several questions unresolved, say S Vasudevan, Prachi Bharadwaj, and Loveena Manaktala of Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan

Nicolle Barbetti of Pérez-Llorca explains how the Capitalisation of Companies Incentive has reshaped Portugal’s corporate financing landscape and highlights how binding rulings have clarified key issues in its application

Natalia Núñez and Antonia Valdés of PwC Chile analyse the new bill’s tax implications for a key sector, considering the provisions of the Mining Royalty Law