Expert Analysis

Oleg Chayka and Yulia Nogovitsyna of KPMG explain that prospective foreign investors will have to pay more consideration to beneficial ownership requirements and substance when structuring their investments in and transactions with Ukrainian businesses.

The US Supreme Court’s decision in Mayo earlier this year caught the attention of tax professionals. George Hani and Alan Horowitz of Miller & Chevalier, Washington, DC, argue that the full impact of the case will depend on the outcome of a new case addressing whether deference is owed to a more aggressive effort by the IRS to issue regulations with retroactive effect.

The economic and legal situation in Spain has turned some of the structures traditionally used by foreign investors to invest in Spanish real estate into inefficient and highly expensive tools to maintain. Víctor Viana Barral & José Gabriel Martínez Paños of Uría Menéndez outline the disadvantages of these structures and include a proposal for a more efficient alternative.

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