The arm’s length principle is based on the notion that independent enterprises, when evaluating the terms of a potential transaction, will compare the transaction to the other options realistically available to them, and they will only enter into the transaction if they see no alternative that offers a clearly more attractive opportunity to meet their commercial objective. In other words, independent enterprises would only enter into a transaction if it does not make them worse off than their next best option. Consideration of the other options realistically available may be relevant to comparability analysis, to understand the respective positions of the parties.
TPG2017 Chapter IX paragraph 9.27
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Category: OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines (2017) | Tag: Business restructuring, Delineation of Business Restructurings, Options realistically available
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