OECD COVID-19 TPG paragraph 16

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In other instances, it may be more challenging to use contemporaneous uncontrolled transactions as part of a comparability analysis, notably in the application of the transactional net margin method (“TNMM”). When applying the TNMM, taxpayers and tax administrations typically rely on historical information from commercial databases in order to set and test prices. FY 2020 information will typically not be available until mid FY 2021 at the earliest because commercial databases use publicly available information derived from financial statements and these financial statements tend to be lodged only after several months after the period to which they relate. This suggests that in these circumstances taxpayers will need to perform a comparability analysis based on available prior year financial information and, depending on the facts and circumstances of the case, utilising whatever current year information is available to support their transfer prices.

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