Transfer Pricing Methods for Services and the Policy of Fixed Length Principle

The paper deals with the methods used by companies for controlled transactions in services. The author performs an analysis of the ways a company that takes part in controlled transactions of transfer pricing can tackle tax issues using an adequate tax method. Services should comply with the arm’s l...

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Main Author: Challoumis Constantinos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Riga Technical University Press 2019-01-01
Series:Economics and Business
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/eb-2019-0016
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description The paper deals with the methods used by companies for controlled transactions in services. The author performs an analysis of the ways a company that takes part in controlled transactions of transfer pricing can tackle tax issues using an adequate tax method. Services should comply with the arm’s length principle. Therefore, the best method rule and the comparability analysis have a critical role in the arm’s length principle of services. The paper compares the results of transfer pricing services with the transfer pricing of goods to conclude the similarities. The object of the paper is to determine the importance of the application of fixed length principle, meaning the application of additional tax for controlled transactions and declined tax for uncontrolled transactions. Therefore, this scrutiny showed that the unstable tax environments force enterprises to proceed to controlled transactions.
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spelling doaj-art-b4284b77f4c248099cefb25f7c36f5e82025-01-02T20:46:12ZengRiga Technical University PressEconomics and Business1407-73372256-03942019-01-0133122223210.2478/eb-2019-0016eb-2019-0016Transfer Pricing Methods for Services and the Policy of Fixed Length PrincipleChalloumis Constantinos0National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (N.K.U.A.), Athens, GreeceThe paper deals with the methods used by companies for controlled transactions in services. The author performs an analysis of the ways a company that takes part in controlled transactions of transfer pricing can tackle tax issues using an adequate tax method. Services should comply with the arm’s length principle. Therefore, the best method rule and the comparability analysis have a critical role in the arm’s length principle of services. The paper compares the results of transfer pricing services with the transfer pricing of goods to conclude the similarities. The object of the paper is to determine the importance of the application of fixed length principle, meaning the application of additional tax for controlled transactions and declined tax for uncontrolled transactions. Therefore, this scrutiny showed that the unstable tax environments force enterprises to proceed to controlled transactions.https://doi.org/10.2478/eb-2019-0016arm’s length principlefixed-length principleservicestransfer pricingh2h26e22e2
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title Transfer Pricing Methods for Services and the Policy of Fixed Length Principle
title_full Transfer Pricing Methods for Services and the Policy of Fixed Length Principle
title_fullStr Transfer Pricing Methods for Services and the Policy of Fixed Length Principle
title_full_unstemmed Transfer Pricing Methods for Services and the Policy of Fixed Length Principle
title_short Transfer Pricing Methods for Services and the Policy of Fixed Length Principle
title_sort transfer pricing methods for services and the policy of fixed length principle
topic arm’s length principle
fixed-length principle
services
transfer pricing
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url https://doi.org/10.2478/eb-2019-0016
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