Even if no agreement between the tax administrations can be reached in the course of a simultaneous tax examination with respect to the associated enterprises’ transfer pricing, the OECD Model Agreement envisions that either associated enterprise may be able to present a request for the opening of a mutual agreement procedure to avoid economic double taxation at an earlier stage than it would have if there were no simultaneous tax examination. If this is the case, then simultaneous tax examinations may significantly reduce the time span between a tax administration’s adjustments made to a taxpayer’s tax liability and the implementation of a mutual agreement procedure. Moreover, the OECD Model Agreement envisions that simultaneous tax examinations may facilitate mutual agreement procedures, because tax administrations will be able to build up more complete factual evidence for those tax adjustments for which a mutual agreement procedure may be requested by a taxpayer. Based upon the determination and evaluation of facts and the proposed tax treatment of the transfer pricing issues concerned as set forth in the tax administrations’ statements described above, the practical operation of the mutual agreement procedure may be improved significantly, allowing the competent authorities to reach an agreement more easily.
TPG2017 Chapter IV paragraph 4.91
Category: D. Simultaneous tax examinations, OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines (2017), TPG2017 Chapter IV: Administrative Dispute Resolution | Tag: Simultaneous tax examinition/audit
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