3M’s Transfer Pricing Win Marks Tax Code Interpretation Upheaval

3M Co.‘s recent transfer pricing victory before the Eighth Circuit will require reinterpretation of a key tax code provision, potentially upending major pending cases involving some of the world’s largest multinational companies.

Perrigo Ruling a Blow to IRS Use of Economic Substance in Audits

The IRS’s defeat in a long-running dispute with pharmaceutical maker Perrigo Co. threatens to muddle the agency’s campaign to wield the controversial economic substance doctrine against taxpayers in transfer pricing audits.

Australia Advance Tax Deals Dip on Complexity, Global Tax Moves

Australian tax authorities are working on fewer advance pricing agreements than they used to, and negotiations are taking longer as cases are more complex.

Australia Increasingly Disputing Transfer Pricing in Audits

Global profit shifting by public and multinational companies continues to be a source of major tax disputes for Australia’s tax office, it reported Friday.

How Transfer Pricing Can Help Fix a Student Athlete Pay Problem

On this week’s episode of Talking Tax, University of Kentucky professor Stephen Lusch talks with reporter Caleb Harshberger about how transfer pricing and tax law concepts can help show whether NIL deals are done at reasonable prices that really reflect the value the student brings.

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Brazil, OECD, and Australia Debt Test: Transfer Pricing Report

Hello and welcome to the Transfer Pricing Report. I’m Caleb Harshberger, and this week we have news from Lisbon, where tax officials shared some of the latest tax and transfer pricing projects in the works at the OECD and around the world. Also, practitioners in Australia criticize the country’s newly finalized third-party debt test.

Bitcoin Life Insurer Meanwhile Raises $82 Million

Apollo, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, Pantera Capital and Stillmark are joining Bain Capital and crypto investor Haun Ventures to back the Bitcoin life insurance firm Meanwhile in a $82 million funding round.

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Liechtenstein, Latvia Sign DTA

The Liechtenstein Fiscal Authority Oct. 3 announced the Oct. 2 signing of a DTA with Latvia. The DTA includes measures to: 1) regulate the elimination of double taxation on cross-border ...

Belgium-India Second Protocol to 1993 DTA Enters Into Force

The Belgian Official Gazette Sept. 1 announced that the second protocol to the 1993 DTA with India, signed March 9, 2017, entered into force June 26, 2025. The provisions apply: ...

Saudi Arabia Tax Agency Announces Effective, Implementation Dates for DTA With Qatar

The Saudi General Authority of Zakat and Tax Oct. 1 announced that the DTA with Qatar, signed May 30, 2024, took effect Jan. 1, 2025, with its provisions being implemented ...

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