In some cases, taxpayers establish transfer pricing documentation to demonstrate that they have made reasonable efforts to comply with the arm’s length principle at the time their intra-group transactions were undertaken, i.e. on an ex ante basis (hereinafter “the arm’s length price-setting” approach), based on information that was reasonably available to them at that point. Such information includes not only information on comparable transactions from previous years, but also information on economic and market changes that may have occurred between those previous years and the year of the controlled transaction. In effect, independent parties in comparable circumstances would not base their pricing decision on historical data alone.
TPG2022 Chapter III paragraph 3.69
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Category: OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines (2022), TPG2022 Chapter III: Comparability Analysis | Tag: Comparability analysis, Hindsight, Timing issues
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