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Transfer pricing comparables “toolkit” reflects realities of developing nations, UN official says
A new “toolkit” which considers how developing nations can address a lack of comparables in transfer pricing, released jointly by the UN, OECD, IMF, and World Bank Group last June, reaffirms that the arm’s length approach can work for all nations but is also an imperfect, “not scientifically pure,” document, a UN official said July 18. Michael Lennard . . .
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Ireland tax treaty update: agreements with Zambia, Germany, Luxembourg enter into force; pacts with Ethiopia, Pakistan ratified; new treaty with South Africa under negotiation
Ireland’s tax treaty with Zambia and protocols to tax treaties with Germany and Luxembourg have entered into force and effect, Irish Tax and Customs. . .
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Developing nations detail their experiences with BEPS, react to OECD work
Tax officials from 11 developing nations described the most common practices MNEs use to shift profits out of their countries, obstacles that prevent their countries from stopping these practices, and their reactions to the OECD/G-20 base erosion profit shifting (BEPS) project, responding to a UN request for . . .
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Netherlands renegotiates tax treaties with developing nations to add antiabuse clause
The Netherlands on June 22 announced it has renegotiated tax treaties with Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, and Zambia to add antiabuse provisions to the treaties, and said that it hopes to add antiabuse clauses to tax treaties with 23 developing nations. Moreover, talks . . .
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Ireland and Zambia sign tax treaty, text available
Irish Revenue on April 22 released the text of a tax treaty signed by Ireland and Zambia on March 31. The agreement is . . .
