Estudo comparativo do transfer pricing entre o Brasil e os cinco países de maior investimento local : Estados Unidos, Holanda, Espanha, França e Alemanha

Abstract

Globalization process, which has been motivated by markets opening, has facilitated the free capital flow, also providing an accelerated growth to multinational companies, through the expansion of their activities to other countries. One of the results of this process is the surge of the concealed transfers of capital and profits, through either overestimate or underestimate transactions among associated companies. Therefore, each country has decided to adopt some rules to control the Transfer Pricing of assets and services in those transactions, which caused an increase of taxation complexity to multinational companies due to their need of knowing the laws of each country and its taxation impact on transactions between the company and its branches, aiming, therefore, to identify the situations of double taxation. This essay has the objective of presenting the rules for Transfer Pricing in Brazil and the five countries with higher investments in local assets, showing particularities of these countries, providing methodological knowledge related to Transfer Pricing estimate to multinational companies tax authorities in each studied country, to facilitate accounting and taxation management for the companies, not only in Brazilian taxation context, but also to the countries where transactions among associated companies take place. Throughout this paper it will be possible to identify the differences of methodologies among the countries, the requested information, the legal requirements and the penalties for those who do not attend to tax legislation.