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Taxing Multinationals

Transfer Pricing and Corporate Income Taxation in North America

by (author) Lorraine Eden

Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Initial publish date
Apr 1998
Category
Taxation
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442680371
    Publish Date
    Mar 1998
    List Price
    $210
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802007766
    Publish Date
    Apr 1998
    List Price
    $175

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Governments face complex problems in taxing crossborder, intrafirm transactions of multinational enterprises. Such transactions dominate world trade flows and critically affect national tax revenues. However, their values - transfer prices - are set typically inside the multinationals. As a result, governments have established complicated rules based on the arm's length standard to discourage transfer price manipulation.

This book draws on the fields of international business, economics, accounting, law, and public policy as they pertain to transfer pricing. It includes a state-of-the-art review of the economic theory of transfer pricing; an international business approach to multinationals and intrafirm trade in North America; complete outlines of the corporate income tax laws and regulations in Canada, the United States, and Mexico as they apply to transfer pricing; a thorough discussion of the roles of the U.S. Treasury and the OECD in developing the arm's length standard; summaries of key transfer pricing court cases; samples of accounting practices and problems; and a critical look at the current tax issues and public policy proposals in regard to taxing multinationals in the twenty-first century.

Taxing Multinationals should be of interest to practitioners, researchers, and policy makers who deal with multinational enterprises, international taxation, and intrafirm transactions.

About the author

Lorraine Eden is Associate Professor, Department of Management, Texas A&M University. She is general editor of Multinationals in North America.

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