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FY360° | Knocking on tax haven’s door: Multinational firms and transfer pricing

Allegations of tax-avoiding transfer pricing by multinational firms are common, but economic evidence is scarce. This column discusses detailed price data for intra-firm and arm’s length transactions that reveals tax-driven transfer pricing, and suggests that it may be reduced by focusing on a small number of large firms in a small number of tax havens.


It is well known that tax differences across countries provide multinationals with an arbitrage opportunity allowing them to minimise tax payments (de Mooij et al. 2014). While there are many ways in which firms can shift profits to low-tax locations, the use of internal, or transfer, prices is seen as one of the most significant (OECD 2012). This is achieved by having an affiliate in a low-tax location charge high transfer prices for what it sells to an affiliate in a high-tax jurisdiction – in essence, inflating revenues where taxes are low and costs where taxes are high. This runs afoul of tax authorities when the transfer price deviates from...

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