Expert Analysis

James Badenach, former head of Asia tax at RBS, talks to Jack Grocott about how tax helped navigate the bank through the global meltdown and subsequent UK government bailout and why he is lucky to be alive.

Intellectual property (IP) is one of the most debated tax topics in India. The increased examination and monitoring of IP transactions has resulted is the problem of double taxation. Shivam Mehta and Kapil Sharma of Lakshmi Kumaran & Sridharan scrutinise the applicability of service tax on IP transactions and highlight the issues regarding multiple taxation of IP under various statutes prevailing in India.

Business reorganisation and restructuring in M&A activity has become an important and necessary tool for business strategy in India. Daksha Baxi and Vinita Krishnan of Khaitan & Co investigate the challenges taxpayers will face in light new provisions of Section 56 of the Income Tax Act, 1961.

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