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19 Nov

2024 Updates on Global Minimum Tax

Global Minimum Tax (GMT) is one of the largest tax reformations as part of the initiative under Pillar 2 of the Base Erosion Profit-Shifting (BEPS) 2.0 project.


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4 Nov

Understanding the Basics of Global Minimum Tax

This article will provide an overview of what global minimum tax is, why it's important, and how it impacts multinational corporations and the global economy.


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21 Oct

The Evolution of Global Minimum Tax Policies: A Historical Perspective

This article will explore the history of global minimum tax policies, from their origins to the latest developments, including the recent OECD/G20 agreement.


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1 Oct

The Role of Technology in Global Minimum Tax Compliance

This article will discuss how technology can help multinational corporations streamline their global minimum tax compliance.


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23 Sep

The Implications of Global Minimum Tax on Multinational Corporations

This article will discuss how global minimum tax policies affect multinational corporations, including changes to their tax planning strategies and compliance requirements.


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2 Sep

Key Considerations for Compliance with Global Minimum Tax

This article will provide practical advice for multinational corporations on how to navigate the complexities of global minimum tax compliance.


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26 Aug

Navigating the Legal and Regulatory Landscape of Global Minimum Tax

This article will provide an overview of the legal and regulatory considerations that multinational corporations need to be aware of when dealing with global minimum tax.


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5 Aug

Global Minimum Tax and the Future of International Taxation

This article will speculate on the future of international taxation in light of global minimum tax policies, including potential trends and challenges that may arise.


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22 Jul

Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Countries

This article will examine the challenges and opportunities that global minimum tax policies present for developing countries, including their potential impact on tax revenue and economic development.


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2 Jul

BEPS 2.0 - Pillar One - Amount B - is it really a simplified approach to Transfer Pricing?

On 19 February 2024, OECD published the final report on Pillar One -Amount B, is designed to simplify and streamline the application of the arm’s length principle.


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21 Mar

Adriana Calderon appointed to SCTP Transfer Pricing Roundtable Representative

We are thrilled to share that Adriana Calderon, Director of Transfer Pricing Solutions Asia, has been appointed by ISCA as a Transfer Pricing Roundtable Representative for SCTP.


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11 Jan

2024 IRAS Indicative Margins for Related Party Loan

The indicative margin recommended by IRAS are market interest rate to be adopted by Singapore taxpayers for related party loans not exceeding SGD15 million.
Generally, the IRAS publishes the indicative margins at the beginning of each calendar year.


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9 Mar '22

All you need to know about the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines 2022 Update

If you are reading this article the chances are that you enjoy discussing about technical aspects of transfer pricing as much as we do. Any transfer pricing aficionado knows that changes to the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines are a reason for excitement in the tax and transfer pricing world.


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11 Feb '21

Malaysia Transfer Pricing Update

The Malaysian Finance Bill 2020 incorporates transfer pricing-related changes to the current Income Tax Act, 1967 (“ITA”). The changes permit significantly greater authority to the Malaysia Inland Revenue Board (“MIRB”) and re-emphasises the importance of transfer pricing compliance, with effect from 1 January 2021.


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12 Aug '20

ATO issues COVID-19 guidance on AU Transfer Pricing

Thec Covid-19 pandemic has triggered the most severe recession and is causing enormous damage to the world economy. The economic downturn will impact a group’s transfer prices, analysis and documentation, more so with the BEPS Action Plans in place and the high level of transfer pricing scrutiny across the globe.


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16 Jul '20

JobKeeper Impact on Transfer Pricing for Companies

JobKeeper forms part of taxable income in the tax return. Makes sense, it is a subsidy against wages, so I am sure there are no surprises there, but how do you assess the arm’s length financial outcomes of the entity for transfer pricing purposes?


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16 Jul '20

JobKeeper Payments - Impact on Your Clients' Transfer Pricing

The ATO expect that Australian entities will retain the benefit of the JobKeeper payment they receive. So how do you treat the JobKeeper payments for transfer pricing purposes?


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13 Jul '20

Singapore Compulsory Transfer Pricing Documentation and Non-Compliance Penalties

Singapore introduced compulsory transfer pricing documentation effective from the year of assessment (YA) 2019. A new penalty regime was also included for non-compliance with the TP documentation requirements.


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26 Jun '20

Transfer Pricing Solutions is finalist of ITR Asia Tax Awards 2020

We are thrilled to announce that Transfer Pricing Solutions is shortlisted for the International Tax Review Asia Tax Awards 2020 with several nominations!


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24 Jun '20

Transfer Pricing for Commodity Entities - What type of trader is your company?

The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) recognises the diversity in the commodity marketing/trading (CMT) activities undertaken by CMT entities in Singapore and the wide-ranging values they could bring to their multinational enterprise (MNE) group.


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22 Jun '20

Transfer Pricing Solutions is winner of Australian Accounting Awards 2020

Transfer Pricing Solutions are thrilled to have won the Fast-Growing Firm of the Year award at the Australian Accounting Awards 2020! 




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24 Apr '20

Final OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines on Financial transactions, What are the key changes?

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has released in February 2020 the final Transfer Pricing Guidance on Financial Transactions (Guidance). The Guidance provides an insight on the arm’s length treatment of various financial transactions among related parties.


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22 Apr '20

Philippines’ new transfer pricing guidelines may impact you

Do you have business in the Philippines? In August 2019, the BIR issued Revenue Audit Memorandum Order No. 1-2019 (“the TP Audit Guidelines”) to introduce standardised audit procedures and techniques applicable to taxpayers with related party transactions.


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15 Apr '20

The #TPSWAY of Doing Business, how can companies benefit?

Our firm has been a pioneer in using technology that allows our team of experts to work from anywhere and at any time.


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9 Apr '20

The #TPS WAY of Doing Business – What can we learn from COVID 19 crisis?

COVID 19 crisis provoked an unprecedented shift toward working from home (#WFH), and business is implementing tools and resources to allow the employees to work from home and look after their customers as seamless as possible.


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7 Apr '20

Transfer Pricing for Commodity Trading Entities

Do you want to know about transfer pricing for commodity traders? This article will give you an overview about transfer pricing for commodity trading companies with operations in Singapore


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17 Mar '20

What can companies do to manage their Transfer Pricing Risks in time of crisis?

In light of the recent outbreak of Covid-19, which is now known as a global pandemic threat, has jeopardized businesses significantly across the globe. Businesses of various industries are expected to lose billions of revenues.   


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13 Mar '20

Digital Economy and Transfer Pricing

In a digitalised era, businesses can develop an active and sustained engagement in a market jurisdiction, beyond the mere conclusion of sales, without necessarily investing in local infrastructure and operations. Hence, the allocation of taxing rights can no longer be exclusively circumscribed by reference to physical presence.


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24 Feb '20

Taxpayer Alert of DEMPE Analysis Australia

Intangible properties (“IPs”) has become the main driver of business profits within Multinational Enterprises (“MNEs”) especially in the digital economy ecosystem.


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13 Feb '20

Did you know that Malaysia increased penalties for taxpayers that do not prepare Transfer Pricing Documentation?

On 15 December 2019, the Malaysian Inland Revenue Board (“IRB”) issued the updated Tax Audit Frameworks including Transfer Pricing (“TP”) Audit Framework 2019. The updated tax audit frameworks take effect from 15 December 2019.


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21 Jan '20

Transfer Pricing IRAS Update - Indicative margins for related party loan

Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (“IRAS”) has introduced the indicative margins for related party loans since the past few years whereby the indicative margins are updated at the beginning of each calendar year.


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16 Dec '19

Interest Deductibility Restrictions in Malaysia

The introduction of Earning Stripping Rules (“ESR”) limiting the interest deduction for financial assistance between related persons were announced in the Budget 2018.


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25 Nov '19

ISCA Continuing Professional Development 2020

Equip your employees with relevant skills imparted by our team of professional trainers. 


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17 Oct '19

Updates on Malaysian Transfer Pricing Guidelines

On 01 November 2018, the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia (“IRBM”) had a dialogue session with the Chartered Tax Institute of Malaysia (“CTIM”)’s Technical Committee on the updated version (mainly from Chapters II to XI) of the Malaysian Transfer Pricing Guidelines (“TP Guidelines”)


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10 Oct '19

Overview of Profit Split Method

With the recent focus on profit shifting around the world, guidance on profit split method has revised by Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (“OECD”) in June 2018. OECD published the “Revised Guidance on the Application of the Transactional Profit Split Method” under Base Erosion Profit Shifting (“BEPS”) project - Action 10.


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6 Oct '19

New Transfer Pricing Regime in Hong Kong

On 13 July 2018, Hong Kong’s new transfer pricing regime was enacted through the Inland Revenue (Amendment) (No. 6) Ordinance 2018 (“Amendment Ordinance”). This new law codifies transfer pricing rules in Hong Kong and is largely consistent with the OECD transfer pricing guidelines.


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