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Romania vs “Broker” A SRL, September 2016, Supreme Court, Case No 3818/2019
Following an audit Broker A SRL was ordered to submit corrective statements on the corporate income tax for the tax years 2016 and 2017, and not to take over the tax loss from previous years, in the amount of RON 62,773,810 in 2016 and 2017. The tax authorities had found shortcomings in the comparability study drawn up by the company and replaced it with their own study. According to Broaker A SRL the transfer pricing adjustment was unlawful: the measure of reworking the comparability study has no legal basis and was not reasoned by the tax authorities; the findings of the tax inspection bodies are based on a serious error concerning the accounting recognition of A. BV’s income in its records; unlawfulness as regards the adjustment of income in respect of support services. ANAF has made serious errors of calculation by reference to its own reasoning in establishing the adjustments. unlawfulness of the tax decision in relation to the adjustment of expenditure on strategic management services. The findings of the tax inspection team lead directly and directly to double taxation at group level of this income, to which the following criticisms are made: the tax authorities erroneously adjusted income relating to strategic management services which were not the subject of the Support Services Contract between A. SRL and A. BV and which were not provided by the company; the imposition of the obligation to re-invoice A. BV for management services leads to double taxation at group level. Judgement of Supreme Court The Supreme Court found the appeal of Broker A SRL unfounded and upheld the assessment of the tax authorities. Click here for English translation Click here for other translation ...