Governments face complex problems in taxing crossborder, intrafirm transactions of multinational enterprises. Such transactions dominate world trade flows and critically affect national tax revenues. However, their values - transfer prices - are set typically inside the multinationals. As a result, governments have established complicated rules based on the arm's length standard to discourage transfer price manipulation.
This book draws on the fields of international business, economics, accounting, law, and public policy as they pertain to transfer pricing. It includes a...
Governments face complex problems in taxing crossborder, intrafirm transactions of multinational enterprises. Such transactions dominate world trad...
One of the reasons for the success of multinational enterprises in their ability to create in their supranational organisations "internal markets" which eliminate the imperfections of external world markets caused by tariffs on trade, restrictions on the flow of capital, information costs and so on. The method multinationals use to create and sustain internal markets is transfer pricing. Multinationals use to their advantage the difference between nominal accounting and real transfers from their head offices to a subsidiary in different countries to overcome transaction costs and...
One of the reasons for the success of multinational enterprises in their ability to create in their supranational organisations "internal markets" ...
Most governments keep balance of payments statistics on exports and imports, by value, andconstruct international prices indexes in order to deflate these statistics. How can intrafirm trade(IFT), trade between related parties such as multinational enterprises (MNEs), bias theconstruction of these international price indexes? Economists have known for many years thatthe prices set by MNEs for intrafirm transfers -- transfer prices --- are normally not the prices that would be negotiated between arm's length parties (Diewert 1985, Eden 1985, Horst 1971).Does transfer pricing bias the export...
Most governments keep balance of payments statistics on exports and imports, by value, andconstruct international prices indexes in order to deflate t...
Multinationals in the Global Political Economy looks at the new diplomacy between the multinational firm and the nation-state, focusing on the interdependencies, conflictual and co-operative, between the two primary actors in the global economy. An international group of scholars (the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Sweden) from a variety of disciplines (international relations, political science, public policy, economics and business studies) discuss the theory and practice of MNE-state relations in the 1990s.
Multinationals in the Global Political Economy looks at the new diplomacy between the multinational firm and the nation-state, focusing on the interde...