Publicação
The tension between Transfer Pricing and Customs Valuation
| Resumo: | This master thesis intends to examine the tension between transfer pricing and customs valuation, showing how transfer pricing, in the context of corporate income taxation, and customs valuation, in the context of tariffs, are two realities that share a common starting point– the pursuant towards the achievement and corroboration of the arm’s length principle – but incorporate critical differences and inconsistencies. After summarily describing the theoretical highlights behind the structure of each discipline, we perform an in-depth comparative analysis on the interactions between transfer pricing and customs valuation, exploiting the issues that arise from the lack of convergence between these two systems, which might act as a burden for the taxpayer / importer and be a source of situations of double taxation. The work developed led us to the conclusion that convergence and harmonization is a desirable and necessary step. While concluding that a full convergence would be difficult to implement mainly due to structural focus and timing differences, an acceptable degree of convergence would be reached based on three main foundations: the harmonization of the mechanism of choice of method, the mitigation of timing and focus differences and the clarification of the process of reflecting post importation transfer pricing adjustment at the customs level. |
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| Autores principais: | Reis, Duarte Nuno Tenreiro Freitas dos |
| Assunto: | transfer pricing customs valuation arm’s length convergence harmonization preços de transferência valorização alfandegária métodos de valorização princípio de plena concorrência convergência harmonização |
| Ano: | 2012 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | This master thesis intends to examine the tension between transfer pricing and customs valuation, showing how transfer pricing, in the context of corporate income taxation, and customs valuation, in the context of tariffs, are two realities that share a common starting point– the pursuant towards the achievement and corroboration of the arm’s length principle – but incorporate critical differences and inconsistencies. After summarily describing the theoretical highlights behind the structure of each discipline, we perform an in-depth comparative analysis on the interactions between transfer pricing and customs valuation, exploiting the issues that arise from the lack of convergence between these two systems, which might act as a burden for the taxpayer / importer and be a source of situations of double taxation. The work developed led us to the conclusion that convergence and harmonization is a desirable and necessary step. While concluding that a full convergence would be difficult to implement mainly due to structural focus and timing differences, an acceptable degree of convergence would be reached based on three main foundations: the harmonization of the mechanism of choice of method, the mitigation of timing and focus differences and the clarification of the process of reflecting post importation transfer pricing adjustment at the customs level. |
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