Where the purpose of the valuation technique is to isolate the projected cash flows associated with an intangible, it may be necessary to evaluate and quantify the effect of projected future income taxes on the projected cash flows. Tax effects to be considered include: (i) taxes projected to be imposed on future cash flows, (ii) tax amortisation benefits projected to be available to the transferee, if any, and (iii) taxes projected to be imposed on the transferor as a result of the transfer, if any.
TPG2022 Chapter VI paragraph 6.178
Category: D. Determining arm’s length conditions in cases involving intangibles | Tag: Discounted Cash Flow (DCF), Financial projections, Intangibles, Tax Amortisation Benefit (TAB), Tax effects, Valuation, Valuation method, Valuation technique
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- TPG2022 Chapter VI paragraph 6.157Valuation techniques that estimate the discounted value of projected future cash flows derived from the exploitation of the transferred intangible or intangibles can be particularly useful when properly applied. There are many variations of these valuation techniques. In general terms, such techniques measure...
- TPG2022 Chapter VI paragraph 6.177In this regard, where specific intangibles contribute to continuing cash flows beyond the period for which reasonable financial projections exist, it will sometimes be the case that a terminal value for the intangible related cash flows is calculated. Where terminal values are used...
- TPG2022 Chapter VI paragraph 6.168Where, for the foregoing reasons, or any other reason, there is a basis to believe that the projections behind the valuation are unreliable or speculative, attention should be given to the guidance in Section D.3 and D.4....
- TPG2022 Chapter VI paragraph 6.167When deciding whether to include development costs in the cash flow projections it is important to consider the nature of the transferred intangible. Some intangibles may have indefinite useful lives and may be continually developed. In these situations it is appropriate to include...
- TPG2022 Chapter VI paragraph 6.164In evaluating financial projections, the source and purpose of the projections can be particularly important. In some cases, taxpayers will regularly prepare financial projections for business planning purposes. It can be that such analyses are used by management of the business in making...
- TPG2022 Chapter VI paragraph 6.163The reliability of a valuation of a transferred intangible using discounted cash flow valuation techniques is dependent on the accuracy of the projections of future cash flows or income on which the valuation is based. However, because the accuracy of financial projections is...
- Report on the Application of Economic Valuation Techniques (2017)The Study on the Application of Economic Valuation Techniques for Determining Transfer Prices of Cross Border Transactions between Members of Multinational Enterprise Groups in the EU provides an overview on how valuation techniques can practically and most efficiently be used for transfer pricing...
Related Case Law
- Denmark vs “IP ApS”, March 2023, Tax Tribunal, Case No. SKM2023.135.LSRThe case concerned the valuation of intangible assets transferred from a Danish company to an affiliated foreign company. The Tax Tribunal basically agreed with the valuation of the expert appraisers according to the DCF model, but corrected the assumptions with regard to revenue...
- Portugal vs “B Restructuring LDA”, February 2021, CAAD, Case No 255/2020-TB Restructuring LDA was a distributor within the E group. During FY 2014-2016 a number of manufacturing entities within the group terminated distribution agreements with B Restructuring LDA and subsequently entered into new Distribution Agreements, under similar terms, with another company of the...
- Bulgaria vs KEY END ES ENERGY, April 2020, Supreme Administrative Court, Case No 4972Key End Es Energy concluded a share purchase and sale agreement of 20.12.2012 with a related party LUKERG BULGARIA GmbH, under which KEY END EU ENERGY transferred to its parent company LUKERG BULGARIA GmbH the ownership of the shares in eight subsidiaries. The...
- Portugal vs C… – Sociedade de Investimentos Imobiliários, S.A., November 2023, Tribunal Central Administrativo Sul, Case 541/02.5 BTLRSThe tax authorities had issued an assessment in which the value of shares transfered between related parties had been adjusted by application of the arm’s length principle. The assessment was appealed to the Administrative Court, which upheld the assessment. An appeal was then...
- Finland vs. Corp. February 2014, Supreme Administrative Court, KHO:2014:33A Ltd, which belonged to the Norwegian X Group, owned the entire share capital of B Ltd and had on 18.5.2004 sold it to a Norwegian company in the same group. The Norwegian company had the same day transferred the shares back on...