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)

The complex distinction between legal ownership and economic ownership of intangible assets means multinationals must take proactive measures to avoid transfer pricing controversy, say Christine Ramsay, Jordi Morera, and Marguerite Mei of Deloitte

With the pricing of intangibles laced with difficulty, Ishan Maini, Eric Linge, and Richard Schmidtke of Deloitte draw on two cases in Germany and Israel revolving around differing interpretations concerning the delineation of transactions

Mariusz Każuch, Inka Traeger, and Conrad Marburg of Deloitte consider tax authorities' recharacterisation of intercompany transactions through drawing on recent practice in Poland and Germany, and suggest proactive measures global businesses can take

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