The thesis critically examines the Brazilian adoption of arm's length principle and assesses its impact on the country's fiscal sovereignty in cross-border commodities transactions. The arm's length principle is regarded as an useful tool for preventing tax avoidance and ensuring tax neutrality. While the adoption of this principle by Brazil serves as a way of aligning its tax regulations with international standards and enhancing tax transparency, it also raises critical questions regarding the country’s fiscal sovereignty. This is due to the fact that the adoption of the arm's length principle results in decreasing the country’s control over tax policies in order to adhere to global and international standards. The thesis critically examines the motivation behind the adoption of this principle by Brazil and evaluates it under the perspective of the practicability principle. The thesis also assesses the implications on fiscal sovereignty of Brazil and highlights potential conflicts that may arise in the ongoing transformation in the Brazilian tax landscape.

The Master’s thesis is concerned with establishing the transfer price of royalties. The thesis is divided into four parts. The theoretical part contains definitions of key words using international and domestic law. The analytical part includes a description of methods recommended by OECD and their use for royalties transactions. The practical part describes a methodical procedure for establishing the transfer price of royalties, which is then used in the next part for a model example.

The European Union was devised to promote competition in the international market environment and ensure balanced allocation of fiscal and political requirements of the Member States. Globalization has led to enabling tax environments through granting of tax benefits by EU Member jurisdictions intended to promote competition in attracting foreign investment, trade, and development. Multinational Corporations may often exploit these tax benefits through various tax arrangement provisions causing a loss of tax revenue. The European Commission is implored to oversee the tax ruling granted by the Member States that is distortionary to the internal market. The Notion of State aid rule Article 107(1) TFEU is adopted as part of the mechanism to combat distortions that leads to tax evasion and harmful tax competition.  This research is intended to analyse the Commission and the General Court’s approach to demonstrate illegal or unlawful State aid through varied and adaptive methodology to tackle emerging complex tax arrangements provisions of Multinational Corporations, notably the Amazon and Engie recent cases. This paper also discusses the identification of potential conflict of laws between the relevant general system of legal rule of the domestic tax legislation and EU Law. Specifically with regards to the determination of whether a tax benefit confers a tax advantage and subsequently if that advantage is deemed selective in nature in a transfer of financial asset undertaking under a certain domestic law. The dynamics of potential abuse of law and aid recovery with the general tax principle of Legality will also be explored.

The principle of keeping culture at arm’s length from politicians has been a long-standing tradition in Swedish cultural politics but has recently become more of a salient political issue. Municipalities is one level of government that handles a large part of the public funding of cultural activities but has no constitutional protection implementing this principle, instead it is implemented through upheld local norms and individual politician respect for the principle. The purpose of this thesis is to examine a previously unstudied aspect in Swedish cultural governance. What types of microsteering strategies are used in governing local Cultural and Recreational Committees and how do public officials view those strategies. This is done through interviewing different Head Administrative Officers and Head of Department officials in Cultural and Recreational Committees in different municipalities and analysed through the analytical framework of microsteering, developed by Jacobsson, Pierre and Sundström.

Multinational enterprises have been widely accused of using aggressive tax planning schemes to avoid paying tax all over the world. The purpose of this study is to analyse the methods used by multinational enterprises in the context of business restructurings to shift profits from high to low tax jurisdictions. Transactions between associated entities have generally been manipulated by applying non-arm’s length prices to these transactions, as well as devising agreements where the economic substance varies from the form of the transaction. The study aims to investigate some of the practical challenges faced by tax administrators in the application of the arm’s length principle. The study was conducted based on a literature review, as well as analysing specific examples reported in newspapers where multinational enterprises have used aggressive tax planning schemes to shift profits. International case law was also analysed to evaluate some of the factors considered by the courts in the determination of the arm’s length price. It was found that multinational enterprises definitely use aggressive tax planning schemes to shift profits. The practical challenges in the determination of arm’s length prices, complexity of the transactions involved, as well as a lack of resources, especially in the developing nations, are some of the factors that cause tax administrators to battle to find a solution to deter and detect these schemes. Other methods such as the unitary taxation method and the country by country reporting concept have been brought forward as alternatives to the arm’s length principle. These alternatives have been proposed in an effort to find a solution to the challenges posed by the arm’s length principle. Specific measures have also been recommended for developing nations’ tax administrators to resolve the issues that they currently experience in this context. / Thesis (MCom (South African and International Taxation))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013

Multinational enterprises have been widely accused of using aggressive tax planning schemes to avoid paying tax all over the world. The purpose of this study is to analyse the methods used by multinational enterprises in the context of business restructurings to shift profits from high to low tax jurisdictions. Transactions between associated entities have generally been manipulated by applying non-arm’s length prices to these transactions, as well as devising agreements where the economic substance varies from the form of the transaction. The study aims to investigate some of the practical challenges faced by tax administrators in the application of the arm’s length principle. The study was conducted based on a literature review, as well as analysing specific examples reported in newspapers where multinational enterprises have used aggressive tax planning schemes to shift profits. International case law was also analysed to evaluate some of the factors considered by the courts in the determination of the arm’s length price. It was found that multinational enterprises definitely use aggressive tax planning schemes to shift profits. The practical challenges in the determination of arm’s length prices, complexity of the transactions involved, as well as a lack of resources, especially in the developing nations, are some of the factors that cause tax administrators to battle to find a solution to deter and detect these schemes. Other methods such as the unitary taxation method and the country by country reporting concept have been brought forward as alternatives to the arm’s length principle. These alternatives have been proposed in an effort to find a solution to the challenges posed by the arm’s length principle. Specific measures have also been recommended for developing nations’ tax administrators to resolve the issues that they currently experience in this context. / Thesis (MCom (South African and International Taxation))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013

Internprissättning anses vara ett av de mest kritiska problemen när det kommer till nationell och internationell beskattning. Den växande globaliseringen har resulterat i uppkomsten av många nya multinationella verksamheter, vilket även har till följd att transaktioner mellan företag med verksamhet i olika länder ökat. För att uppnå maximal global vinst flyttar multinationella företag vinster från högskatteländer till lågskatteländer och utnyttjar därmed länders olika skattesystem. Till följd av detta har fokus ökat från skattemyndigheter världen över, med incitament om att skydda sitt lands skattebas. Regler i syfte att begränsa internationell skatteflykt har blivit alltmer betydelsefulla, därmed har ett behov av en global accepterad standard avseende internprissättning uppkommit. Organisationen Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) har tagit fram ett antal riktlinjer som behandlar internprissättning. Syftet med studien är att redogöra om det finns skillnader eller likheter mellan implementeringen av OECDs riktlinjer avseende internprissättning mellan Sverige, som är medlem i OECD, samt Kina och Singapore som inte är medlemmar. Vidare syftar studien till att verifiera eller falsifiera följande hypotes; att skillnader i implementeringen och utformning av internprissättning i respektive länders lagar och riktlinjer kan förklaras av kulturella dimensioner i landet. Därav genomfördes en komparativ studie mellan Sverige, Kina och Singapore lagtexter och riktlinjer samt OECDs riktlinjer. Studien omfattar en undersökning av OECDs riktlinjer för internprissättning, OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations 2017, avseende kapitel I. Armlängdsprincipen, kapitel II. Prismetoder och kapitel IV. Dokumentation. Slutsatsen av studien är att såväl medlemsländer samt icke-medlemsländer följer OECDs riktlinjer för internprissättning men att det förekommer variationer i omfattning. Vi finner likheter i såväl ländernas lagstiftning som riktlinjer avseende syfte och innehåll inom de undersökta områdena. Studien identifierar även skillnader i ländernas internprissättningsreglering vilka till största del utgörs av vilken omfattning länderna har anpassat sina riktlinjer efter OECDs riktlinjer. Vår slutsats är att harmonisering råder, men i olika utsträckning, även utanför OECD som institution och att ett medlemskap i organisationen inte är en nödvändighet för att likhet i internprissättning ska existera. Vår studie visar samtidigt att utformningen av internprissättningsregler beror på kulturella dimensioner i högre utsträckning än institutionella influenser. Vår hypotes har genom studien kunnat verifieras och ger därför stöd åt att skillnader i internprissättning i respektive länders lagar och riktlinjer kan förklaras av kulturella dimensioner i landet. Studien bidrar till ökad förståelse av respektive länders lagstiftningar och riktlinjer för internprissättning samt dess likhet med OECDs riktlinjer. Vidare bidrar studien med kunskap i hur kulturella dimensioner, i samspel med OECD, påverkat både medlemsländer samt icke-medlemsländers implementering och utformning av sina lagar och riktlinjer inom internprissättning. / Transfer pricing is considered one of the most critical issues regarding national and international taxation. The growing globalization has resulted in the creation of a multiplicity of new multinational corporations, which in turn has led to an increase in financial transactions between companies with business in different countries. To maximize global profit, multinational corporations move profit from high tax countries to low tax countries by using other countries tax systems. As a consequence, focus on this issue has increased from tax departments all over the world, with the intent to protect their nations’ tax base. Regulation with the purpose of minimizing international tax avoidance have become increasingly important and thus a need for a globally accepted standard considering transfer pricing, has ascended. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has developed a number of guidelines regarding transfer pricing. The purpose of the study is to present differences and similarities in the implementation of OECDs guidelines regarding transfer pricing between Sweden, a member in OECD, as well as China and Singapore who are not members in the OECD. Further the study aims to verify or falsify the hypothesis: that differences in the implementation and design of transfer pricing in the respective countries’ national regulation and guidelines can be explained by cultural dimensions within the countries. Hence a comparative study was executed between Sweden, China and Singapore’s legal texts and guidelines, along with the OECD guidelines. The study contains an examination of transfer pricing in the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administration 2017 of Chapter I. Arm's Length Principle, Chapter II. Price Methods and Chapter IV. Documentation. The study concludes that both member states as well as non-member states follow the OECD guidelines for transfer pricing but that variations between the nations exist. We find similarities in the nations’ regulation and guidelines regarding purpose and content within the examined areas. The study also identifies differences in the transfer pricing regulation between the nations, largely regarding the extent to which the nations has adapted the legal texts and guidelines to the OECD guidelines. Our conclusion is that visible harmonization exist, but in a varying extent, even outside the OECD as an institution, and that membership in the organisation is not a necessity for similarities in transfer pricing guidelines to occur. The study also indicates that the structure of transfer pricing regulation is influenced by cultural dimensions to a larger extent than institutional influences, hence our hypothesis verify that differences in transfer pricing in the respective countries’ national regulation and guidelines can be explained by cultural dimensions within the countries, is supported. The contribution of the study is increased understanding of the examined nations’ regulation and guidelines regarding transfer pricing and their similarities with OECD guidelines for transfer pricing. Further the study contribute to knowledge of how the cultural dimensions within the nations, in combination with OECD, influence the implementation and structuring of regulation and guidelines regarding transfer pricing in both member states and non-member states of the OECD.

This article addresses the subject of secondary adjustment on transfer pricing, focusing on its nature and its regulation in Peru. To do this, the author explains the concept and purpose of transfer pricing and also elaborates some terminological precisions concerning adjustments on transfer pricing, defining the primary adjustments, the compensating ones, the correlative ones and, in more depth, the secondary ones. Likewise, the author explains the way secondary adjustments of transfer prices are regulated by the Peruvian Income Tax Law. / El presente artículo aborda la temática del ajuste secundario en materia de precios de transferencia, enfocándose en su naturaleza y su regulación en el Perú. Para ello, el autor explica el concepto y la finalidad de los precios de transferencia, así como también realiza algunas precisiones terminológicas en materia de ajustes de precios de transferencia, definiendo los ajustes primarios, los compensatorios, los correlativos y, con mayor profundidad, los secundarios. Asimismo, el autor explica la manera en que los ajustes secundarios de los precios de transferencia están regulados en la Ley del Impuesto a la Renta peruana.

Den fortsatt snabba tillväxten av internationell handel och den ökade globaliseringen harresulterat i en ökning av användandet av internprissättning inom koncerner. Detta har i sin turuppmärksammat multinationella företag, som till följd av detta hamnat i mitten av en storm avstridigheter. I takt med att transaktioner ökat, har det uppstått problem med internprissättning.Internprissättningen används som ett viktigt verktyg av globala företag för att uppnå optimalavinster, där det kan uppstå manipulation av internpriser. Internprissättning förklaras därförofta som fenomenet att vinstmaximera genom att utnyttja andra länders skattesystem ochkringgå statliga regleringar. Mobiliseringen av internprissättning i syfte av skatteflykt är nästintill osynligt för allmänheten och ytterst svårt för tillsynsmyndigheter att upptäcka. För attkomma till underfund med detta problem och samtidigt hjälpa skattemyndigheter ochmultinationella företag har organisationen Organisation for Economic Co-operation andDevelopment (OECD) tagit fram ett antal riktlinjer.Syftet med vår studie är att genomföra en komparativ undersökning för att pröva om det finnsen skillnad mellan tillämpningen av OECD:s riktlinjer, mellan länder med anglosaxiskrespektive kontinental redovisningstradition. Därför sker den komparativa studien mellan detkontinentala Tyskland och det anglosaxiska Storbritannien. För att undersöka potentiellaskillnader används kapitel I, II och IV i OECD:s riktlinjer för internprissättning (OECDTransfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations 2010).Dessa kapitel innehåller armlängdsprincipen, internprissättningsmetoder och dokumentation.För att kunna bedöma om det finns några skillnader i tillämpningen av OECD:s riktlinjermellan Tyskland och Storbritannien har vi kvalitativt granskat lagtexter och riktlinjer frånländernas skattemyndigheter. Vidare har vi använt oss av kvalificerad juridisk och ekonomisklitteratur.Vi har kommit fram till att det finns en skillnad mellan tillämpningen av OECD:s riktlinjermellan Storbritannien och Tyskland. Trots likheter som identifierats finns även storaskillnader mellan de två länderna. Dessa olikheter har varit av sådan omfattning att slutsatsenom att det råder skillnader i tillämpningen av OECD:s riktlinjer mellan ett anglosaxiskt ochkontinentalt land, kunnat dras. Studien bidrar till ökad kunskap om hur skattelagstiftningen ärutformad i Storbritannien och Tyskland. Den bidrar även med kunskap om hur OECD:sriktlinjer är utformade och hur dess utformning påverkar andra länders internprissättning. Vårstudie bidrar vidare med litteratur om Tysklands och Storbritanniens implementering avOECD:s riktlinjer samt OECD:s påverkan på utformning av länders skatteregler inominternprissättning. / The continued rapid growth of international trade and the increased globalization has resultedin an increase of use of transfer pricing within corporate groups. This has, further attractedattention to multinational companies that, as a consequence, have ended in the midst of astorm of debates. As transactions increased the problem of transfer pricing arose. Transferpricing is used as an important tool of global companies to achieve optimal profits, whereinternal prices may be manipulated. Transfer pricing is therefore often explained as thephenomenon of maximizing profit by utilizing other countries' tax systems and bypassinggovernment regulations. The mobilization of internal pricing for tax evasion is almostinvisible to the public and extremely difficult for regulatory authorities to detect. In order toaddress this problem while helping tax authorities and multinational companies, theOrganization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has developed a numberof guidelines.The purpose of our study is to carry out a comparative study to determine if there is adifference between the application of the OECD guidelines, between countries with Anglo-Saxon and Continental Accounting tradition. Hence, the comparative study takes placebetween the Anglo-Saxon United Kingdom and the Continental Germany. To investigatepotential differences, chapters I, II and IV are used in the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelinesfor Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administration 2010. These chapters include the arm'slength principle, transfer pricing methods and documentation. In order to assess whether thereis any difference in the application of the OECD guidelines between United Kingdom andGermany, we have qualitatively reviewed legal texts and guidelines from the tax authorities ofthe countries. Furthermore, we have used qualified legal and economic literature.We have found that there is a difference between the application of the OECD guidelinesbetween United Kingdom and Germany. Despite similarities identified, there are also majordifferences between the two countries. These differences have been of such, that theconclusion that there are differences in the application of the OECD guidelines between anAnglo-Saxon and Continental country, could be drawn. The study contributes with increasedknowledge of how tax law is designed in the United Kingdom and Germany. It alsocontributes with knowledge of how the OECD guidelines are designed and how its designaffects other countries' transfer pricing. Our study further contributes literature on UnitedKingdom’s and Germany's implementation of the OECD Guidelines, as well as the OECD'simpact on the design of countries' tax rules in transfer pricing.This paper is hereinafter written in Swedish.

Diploma thesis deals with the issue of loan interest taxation between associated enterprises which are Czech residents. The basic theoretical concepts are described in the first part of thesis. The second part is focused on the analysis Czech law connected with interest taxation. The practical part is based on forming methodological tool for associated enterprises. This methodology can help to set the right loan interest rate. There are also practical examples solved in the end of the diploma thesis.