Transfer Pricing

Convert intercompany challenges into opportunities for more profit, more cash flow and less risk.

Create value at every stage of the transfer pricing life cycle 

Transfer pricing is more than just a compliance exercise. It is also a strategic force for creating value in your organisation. However, there is a ‘but’. Because, for multinational companies, intercompany transactions and the rules governing them can represent both the most significant opportunities for value creation as well as one of the biggest sources of tax risk. 

It all comes down to applying international tax regulations correctly. To do so, you not only need to know the complex regulations inside out but must also be able to make quick adjustments when regulations change. 

Work together with BDO to bring your transfer pricing strategy in line with your global operations and strategic objectives. We help you to review and refine your policies, transfer pricing methods and documentation, and prepare you for the increased auditing.  

In doing so, our transfer pricing team employs a total tax approach, taking into account your business objectives, tax assets, internal operations, technology and data in order to identify planning opportunities. To balance value creation and risk mitigation, we deploy real-time data models and technology for tax planning with which we track intercompany flows and identify potential changes.  

Thus, through every stage of the transfer pricing life cycle, our professionals are by your side – from intercompany planning and design to an efficient and accurate implementation that builds shareholder confidence. All this while compliance and risk management always remain the priorities. 

How BDO can help

Count on BDO for risk assessment, including a high-level review of your intercompany business model and pricing, to ensure that they are unquestionably in line with the transfer pricing requirements. 

Get support in preparing the transfer pricing documentation needed to comply with local regulations in multiple jurisdictions and to reduce penalties. 

We prepare financing and debt financing structures, as well as the supporting documentation that can be used to substantiate your group's positions in the event of a challenge by the tax authorities. 

Via BDO, have the necessary systems and processes in place to manage transfer pricing risks and to provide a good governance framework. 

Engage us to defend you at audits, represent you before tax authorities and to navigate you through mutual agreement procedures. And also, to negotiate Advance Rulings or APAs for more fiscal rights certainty. 

Get support in preparing a case for the innovation income deduction (including preparing and attending pre-filing meetings, drafting and submitting ruling requests and assistance with additional questions from the Advance Rulings Service, etc.) 

Our Transfer Pricing services

  • Together, we align your transfer pricing strategy with your global business operations and strategic goals. We help to review and refine your policy, transfer pricing methods and documentation, and prepare you for increased auditing. 
  • Our tax and transfer pricing team follows a total tax approach, taking into account your business objectives, tax assets, internal operations, technology and data, in order to identify planning opportunities. 
  • Via real-time data models and technology, we achieve optimal tax planning, balancing value creation and risk mitigation. In this regard, we monitor intercompany flows closely and map out every possible change. 

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