Germany vs “TP-Doc GmbH”, June 2011, Bundesfinanzhof, Case No X B 37/11

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The Bundesfinanzhof confirmed the statutory authority of the tax authorities to issue penalties where a taxpayer have not fulfilled transfer pricing documentation requirement.

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BFH v 28 06 2011 - X B 37-11





Related Guidelines

  1. TPG2022 Chapter V paragraph 5.43Another way for countries to encourage taxpayers to fulfil transfer pricing documentation requirements is by designing compliance incentives such as penalty protection or a shift in the burden of proof. Where the documentation meets the requirements and is timely submitted, the taxpayer could...
  2. TPG2022 Chapter V paragraph 5.44Tax administrations should take all reasonable steps to ensure that there is no public disclosure of confidential information (trade secrets, scientific secrets, etc.) and other commercially sensitive information contained in the documentation package (master file, local file and Country¬by-Country Report). Tax administrations should...
  3. TPG2022 Chapter V paragraph 5.40Many countries have adopted documentation-related penalties to ensure efficient operation of transfer pricing documentation requirements. They are designed to make non-compliance more costly than compliance. Penalty regimes are governed by the laws of each individual country. Country practices with regard to transfer pricing...
  4. TPG2022 Chapter V paragraph 5.41Documentation-related penalties imposed for failure to comply with transfer pricing documentation requirements or failure to timely submit required information are usually civil (or administrative) monetary penalties. These documentation-related penalties are based on a fixed amount that may be assessed for each document missing...
  5. TPG2022 Chapter V paragraph 5.42Care should be taken not to impose a documentation-related penalty on a taxpayer for failing to submit data to which the MNE group did not have access. However, a decision not to impose documentation-related penalties does not mean that adjustments cannot be made...
  6. TPG2022 Chapter V paragraph 5.8This compliance objective may be supported in two important ways. First, tax administrations can require that transfer pricing documentation requirements be satisfied on a contemporaneous basis. This would mean that the documentation would be prepared at the time of the transaction, or in...
  7. TPG2022 Chapter V paragraph 5.9While ideally taxpayers will use transfer pricing documentation as an opportunity to articulate a well thought-out basis for their transfer pricing policies, thereby meeting an important objective of such requirements, issues such as costs, time constraints, and competing demands for the attention of...
  8. TPG2022 Chapter V paragraph 5.13A third objective for transfer pricing documentation is to provide tax administrations with useful information to employ in conducting a thorough transfer pricing audit. Transfer pricing audit cases tend to be fact-intensive. They often involve difficult evaluations of the comparability of several transactions...
  1. OECD publishes Guidance on Pricing of Minerals6 November 2023 OECD published a transfer pricing framework on determining the price of minerals. The framework provide guidance for developing countries to accurately delineate the transaction and price mineral sales on an arm’s length basis. Specifically, it identifies the primary economic factors that...
  2. Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 1969The Vienna Convention was done at Vienna on 23 May 1969 and entered into force on 27 January 1980. It is regarded as one of the most important instruments in treaty law and remains an authoritative guide in disputes over treaty interpretation. The...

Related Case Law

  1. Spain vs Representaciones Creta S.L., October 2018, Tribunal Supremo, Case No 1504/2018, STS 3632/2018 – ECLI:ES:TS:2018:3632Tax penalties/fines had been issued following a transfer pricing adjustments in regards of controlled transactions exempt from Spanish TP documentation requirements. An appeal was filed by the taxpayer claiming to be excluded from the Spanish penalty regime. The appeal was dismissed by the...
  2. Panama vs Chevron Panama Fuels Limited, October 2019, Administrative Court of Appeals, Case no 1060 (559-19)The Transfer Pricing Department of the General Directorate of Revenue of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, through Resolution 201-1429 of 24 October 2014, decided to sanction the taxpayer Chevron Products Antilles, LTD, now Chevron Panama Fuels Limited, with a fine of one...
  3. Japan vs Manufacturing Co. March 2013, Tokyo High Court, No 19A Japanese manufacturing company was issued an estimated tax assessment due to lack of transfer pricing documentation. The District Court ruled in favor of the tax authorities. The Court decided that accounts and documents necessary for calculating arms’s length prices should be presented...
  4. Panama vs “Glass Corp”, February 2020, Administrative Tribunal, Case No TAT-RF-015“Glass Corp” Panama, was issued a fine for not filing (in time) Transfer Pricing Report – Form 930 – for the fiscal year 2012. Article 762-I of the Tax Code in Panama establishes that failure to comply with filing obligation of transfer pricing...