Expert Analysis

HMRC’s growing focus on evidencing tax decisions is shifting attention from technical accuracy to governance, requiring businesses to demonstrate how positions were reached and documented

In the second instalment of this two-part series, Jayne Stokes takes a practical approach to navigating the capital v revenue question for UK R&D claims for software development, and shares pointers for businesses

Arindam Mitra and Robin Hart examine how aggregate TP rules clash with transaction-level customs rules, creating compliance risks and requiring granular, SKU-level pricing strategies

Ronnie Dassen and Jan De Clercq of Deloitte Global outline how agentic AI can support indirect tax teams in managing compliance pressures, improving data quality, and freeing capacity for higher-value advisory work

Sameer Nurmohamed, partner, Deloitte Legal Canada

George Ankomah, partner, Tax & Regulatory Services, Deloitte Africa (Ghana)

Jobst Wilmanns and Anna Bolosheva of Deloitte Germany introduce this year’s ITR guide presenting transfer pricing insights across multiple sectors. The articles summarised below feature expert analysis from Deloitte’s international transfer pricing specialists

Marco Heuer and Nik Nolden of Deloitte Germany examine how shifts in tariffs, foreign exchange and interest rates, and geopolitical tensions impact multinational groups’ transfer pricing strategies

Camilo Rodríguez, Ricardo Ruiz, and Pedro Madera of KPMG Colombia analyse how the country addresses tax abuse, recent court guidance on the general anti-avoidance rule, and the practical challenges faced by taxpayers and authorities

Fabian Abi Cakra and Aditya Nugroho of GNV Consulting outline how Indonesia’s new pillar two implementation rules establish registration, filing, reporting, and enforcement procedures for in-scope multinational groups under the global minimum tax regime

Fabian Abi Cakra and Erviyanti Adam of GNV Consulting explain how Indonesia’s revised MSME tax regime preserves the preferential 0.5% rate while tightening eligibility criteria and introducing new anti-avoidance measures aimed at business fragmentation

Paolo Ludovici and Andrea Mirabella of Gatti Pavesi Bianchi Ludovici analyse a recent Italian Supreme Court decision that confirms the application of the three-test beneficial ownership framework to treaty-protected royalty payments