Expert Analysis

Tax transparency initiatives such as the CRS, AEOI and FATCA, and the upcoming mandatory disclosure rules, are having a profound impact on the operations and IT infrastructure of financial institutions (FIs) worldwide. Ronald Frey, chief product officer of the RegTech product unit within BearingPoint, discusses how these are creating trends towards data alignment and centralisation, and are changing the role of FIs and wealth managers in cross-border tax reporting.

The rate of change in the tax regulatory environment in recent years has been rapid, arguably more so than at any other time in recent history. Heads of tax are competing with colleagues in other functions for a share of finite budgets. The challenge is to show value for money, writes Sandy Markwick, head of the Tax Director Network at Winmark.

The Dutch Supreme Court has provided clarity on deductibility of acquisition and disposal costs. Kuba Grabarz and Wessel Dekker of Baker McKenzie Amsterdam explore the consequences.

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

Join KPMG and insightsoftware on June 25 as ITR presents a free webinar on the evolving role of tax professionals and how technology is driving the transformation

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