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)

Monika Bieri and Caterina Colling Russo of Tax Partner discuss a Swiss court ruling concerning the use of multi-year margin averaging in transfer pricing adjustments and suggest several steps that could help ensure compliance

Dennitsa Dimitrova of Kambourov & Partners Tax Consulting highlights a significant tax risk in M&A transactions involving telecommunications operators and suggests what steps should be taken during the due diligence process

Shaun Austin, Darcy Alamuddin, and Ryan McMahon of Deloitte analyse the feedback from the 2024 Deloitte transfer pricing controversy survey, highlighting key trends in the transfer pricing controversy space

India has amended its GAAR to protect pre-April 2017 investments, but questions remain over application of the Supreme Court’s Tiger Global interpretation, say S Vasudevan, Giridhar Vasudevan, and Romil Hotwani of Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan

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