Transfer Pricing

Act smart to reduce your global tax burden

Transfer pricing is a crucial value driver for any international company and documentation of transfer prices is a key component. Used properly, transfer pricing can minimise the global tax rate and optimise group profits worldwide. But there are constant challenges as well in the form of in-depth tax audits, critical investigations into non-deductible profit transfers, the need to fulfil local documentation requirements efficiently and pragmatically, and new transfer pricing regulations.

The challenges you face

• You are an international company seeking to minimise your corporate tax burden by means of tax-optimised transfer pricing structures
• You want to meet local documentation requirements at all times
• You are involved in cross-border business in different industries and services

How PwC can support you

PwC has the world’s largest transfer pricing network. The International Tax Review named the Swiss transfer pricing team "Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year 2005" and "Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year 2006". The team delivers solutions in the following areas:

• Exploiting optimisation potential and eliminating potential risks
• Documenting and defending transfer prices
• Reducing transfer pricing risks
• Intellectual property: licence structures and fees; defending intellectual property
• Tax-effective charging of internal management and support services
• Determining arm’s length transfer prices
• Setting up uniform and transparent value chains
• Reducing the group tax burden by means of a tax-optimised corporate structure in a global or regional business control centre
• Meeting national requirements for transfer pricing documentation
• Creating the optimum basis for restructuring (M&A)