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Base Erosion And Profit Shifting(BEPS) – Organization For Economic Co-Operation And Development Public Discussion Draft

OECD and BEPS

Under the mandate of the Report on Actions 8-10 of the BEPS Action Plan (“Aligning Transfer Pricing Outcomes with Value Creation”), Working Party No. 6 (“WP6”) has produced a non-consensus discussion draft on financial transactions.

The first part of the discussion draft provides guidance on the application of the principles contained in Section D.1 of Chapter I of the Transfer Pricing Guidelines to financial transactions.

In particular, Section B.1 of the discussion draft elaborates on how
the accurate delineation analysis under Chapter I applies to the capital structure of an MNE within an MNE group. The discussion draft clarifies that the guidance included in this section does not prevent countries from implementing approaches to address capital
structure and interest deductibility under their domestic legislation. Section B.2 outlines the economically relevant characteristics that inform the analysis of the terms and conditions of financial transactions.

The second part of the discussion draft, contained in sections C, D and E, addresses specific issues related to the pricing of financial transactions such as treasury function, intra-group loans, cash pooling, hedging, guarantees and captive insurance.The discussion draft also includes a number of questions to commentators on which inputs from stakeholders will be particularly relevant to WP6 to further its work and prepare another discussion draft after considering the input received.
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Peru Joins The Inclusive Framework On BEPS

William Byrnes

Following the first meeting of the Inclusive Framework on BEPS in Japan, on 30 June – 1 July, and recent regional meetings, more countries and jurisdictions are joining the framework. The Inclusive Framework on BEPS recently welcomed Peru bringing to 91 the total number of countries and jurisdictions participating on an equal footing in the Project.

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How Are You Preparing For BEPS?

International Tax Review / TPWeek interviewed 180 leading in-house tax professionals to discover their opinions on the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project and what shape their transfer pricing strategies are taking as final BEPS guidance draws near. As the Infographic shows below, the approach of these tax executives proved to be very interesting.

Where do you and your tax organization stand on being prepared for BEPS? Are you being proactive in your approach for responding to BEPS? Are you doing nothing at all until the project is finalized?

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OECD Launches Action Plan On Base Erosion And Profit Shifting

calculator1National tax laws have not kept pace with the globalization of corporations and the digital economy, leaving gaps that can be exploited by multi-national corporations to artificially reduce their taxes.

OECD’s Action Plan on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) offers a global roadmap that will allow governments to collect the tax revenue they need to serve their citizens. It also gives businesses the certainty they need to invest and grow.

Produced at the request of the G20 and introduced at the G20 Finance Ministers’ meeting in Moscow, the Action Plan identifies 15 specific actions that will give governments the domestic and international instruments to prevent corporations from paying little or no taxes.

•  Establishing international coherence of corporate income taxation
•  Restoring the full effects and benefits of international standards
•  Ensuring transparency while promoting increased certainty and predictability and
•  From agreed policies to tax rules: the need for a swift implementation of the measures

Domestic and international tax rules should relate to both income and the economic activity that generates it. Existing tax treaty and transfer pricing rules can, in some cases, facilitate the separation of taxable profits from the value-creating activities that generate them. Read More

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