Expert Analysis

The new tax regime for patents in the UK may not offer a lower rate than similar rules in other countries, but, for reputational reasons, it may have more advantages, writes Mary Ashley.

The newly approved law Nº 20.630 has brought about several reforms of the Chilean tax legislation, raising, for example, the corporate tax rate to 20%, assimilating the cost of the limited liability companies’ (LLC) capital interests with that of the corporations’ stocks, unifying the taxation of the non-deductible expenses, and, including, as a great novelty, a new article 41E to the Income Tax Law, containing the new Chilean regulation on transfer pricing. Marcelo Muñoz Perdiguero, of Salcedo y Cia, explores the new measures.

Algirdas Šemeta, European Commissioner for Taxation, Customs, Statistics, Audit and Anti-fraud, explains that the proposal for a financial transaction tax (FTT) under enhanced cooperation that the Commission tabled last month is a milestone from at least two perspectives: the tax itself and the procedure used for the tax to become a reality.

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