Customs Valuation and Transfer Pricing : Legal Rules, Practices - a China Case Study - and Proposals to Address the Significant Concern for Cost-efficient Compliance and Trade Facilitation

Customs Valuation and Transfer Pricing : Legal Rules, Practices - a China Case Study - and Proposals to Address the Significant Concern for Cost-efficient Compliance and Trade Facilitation

Author: Zhaokang Jiang

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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The intertwined relationship between customs valuation and transfer pricing has caused significant concern of costs for international trade compliance and efficiency. There are sets of international and national rules for the two related matters of similar purpose, and the gap between the rules and administrations is obvious and room to improve significant. The China case study calls the public and private sectors to work together for a better business climate for compliance and efficiency in this regard. In this respect the author considers the following issues to be improved in public sector: (1) awareness and willingness of rule-based fair and efficient administration; (2) capacity building; (3) international model legislation; (4) transparency and consistency with detailed implementing rules and reasoning-based ruling program; (5) data sharing and risk management; (6) inter-agency cooperation; (7) functional reorganization; (8) standards, methods, documentation compliance requirements and liabilities for encouraging compliance; (9) analysis from the legal and reasoning perspectives; (10) reconciliation and refund mechanism.


Transfer Pricing and Customs Valuation

Transfer Pricing and Customs Valuation

Author: Anuschka Bakker

Publisher: IBFD

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 695

ISBN-13: 9087220596

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This book discusses the intricate role of transfer pricing and customs value in international business environment. It examines the relationship between valuation for transfer pricing purposes and valuation for customs, and the significance of the relationship for multinational enterprises, tax authorities and customs administrations. The book begins by reviewing relevant international standards such as the OECD Guidelines and the GATT/WTO Customs Valuation Agreement. This is followed by a discussion of related issues such as VAT and administrative matters. Country chapters provide an overview of the applicable legislation and valuation methods, and case studies allow direct comparison between the practices of the different countries. The book concludes by summarizing the existing relationship between transfer pricing valuations and customs valuations, and by suggesting possible solutions towards a more integrated approach.


Transfer Pricing in China

Transfer Pricing in China

Author: Chris Devonshire-Ellis

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-05-18

Total Pages: 93

ISBN-13: 3642160808

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This Guide is a detailed overview of all aspects of transfer pricing in China. Produced in association with Transfer Pricing Associates, a specialist global transfer pricing firm, this is an essential work for any businessman trading with or conducting business in China. The book deals with all aspects of transfer pricing from a practical perspective, from designing and implementing a transfer pricing system, to managing China compliance and preparing for an audit.


Transfer Pricing in China

Transfer Pricing in China

Author: Jian Li

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-05-30

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9811376891

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This book offers up to date insights into the exciting world of China’s extensive economic activity through the pervasive and often secretive practice of transfer pricing. It begins with an explanation of transfer pricing itself and goes on to explore how intricately it can infiltrate the trading practices of the commercial lives of both foreign companies in China and Chinese companies expanding to other countries. A review of the main industries in China also considers their possible future uncertainties. China has joined other authorities in actively legislating and organizing a regime to implement its arm’s length policy, as related in Part I of the book on concepts and controls. This is then followed by Part 2 which is devoted to a collection of cases showing the breadth and variability of companies actively seeking to maximise their profits, while Part 3 of the book gives a rare record of the order of priorities exercised by one hundred Chinese tax officers engaged in auditing company performance. The book ends with a summary of the future trends, and activities that regulatory authorities are likely to undertake.


Importing Into the United States

Importing Into the United States

Author: U. S. Customs and Border Protection

Publisher:

Published: 2015-10-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781304100061

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Explains process of importing goods into the U.S., including informed compliance, invoices, duty assessments, classification and value, marking requirements, etc.


Customs Valuation and Transfer Pricing

Customs Valuation and Transfer Pricing

Author: Juan Martin Jovanovich

Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.

Published: 2016-04-24

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 9041161422

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Issues of transfer pricing have come to the fore in both international tax and customs regimes. In particular, the problem of how to apply the two systems of valuation to the same transaction is of widespread concern. This well-known book, now in a fully updated second edition, is a problem-solving guide for professionals charged with valuating transactions in their client’s or company’s best interests. Through detailed examination of relevant guidelines, transfer pricing methodologies, and business realities prevailing among multinational enterprises, it offers a cogent and convincing account of how tax and customs transfer pricing regimes may be harmonized. Among other essential elements, the author discusses the following in depth: – the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines; – the GATT/WTO Customs Valuation Code (GVC) and other valuation rules in key jurisdictions and regional agreements; – the OECD and UN model tax conventions; – the arm’s length principle; – methods, both traditional and new, of determining whether the parties’ relationship in uenced the price; and – additions to and deductions from the customs value. This second edition discusses new developments in the eld, including a chapter on Commentary 23.1 and Case Study 14.1 of the Technical Committee on Customs Valuation of the World Customs Organization (WCO) – the rst international instruments linking transfer pricing and customs valuation. The book concludes with an analysis of the circumstances and conditions under which the introduction of transfer pricing year-end adjustments to transaction value would be consistent with Article 1 of the GVC. The book will continue to provide practitioners, customs administrations, and academics with a highly practical analysis of the intersection of transfer pricing and customs valuation. It will be welcomed by customs administrations charged with examining the acceptability of a transaction value xed between related parties and by multinational companies as a truly actionable tool they can use to optimize decision-making as it relates to transfer pricing and customs valuation in a “real world” setting.


Transfer Pricing

Transfer Pricing

Author: Alan Paisey

Publisher: Universal-Publishers

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1612335497

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This book offers an introduction to transfer pricing with particular reference to China, for those who are looking for an overview that can be rapidly comprehended and who value diagrammatic images as a vehicle for learning. The subject is of importance both for Chinese and foreign personnel engaged in foreign company activity in China and for those who are similarly engaged in Chinese-owned companies already operating abroad, or which are to be extended to foreign locations.


Customs Modernization Handbook

Customs Modernization Handbook

Author: Luc De Wulf

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2005-01-03

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 0821383728

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Trade integration contributes substantially to economic development and poverty alleviation. In recent years much progress was made to liberalize the trade regime, but customs procedures are often still complex, costly and non-transparent. This situation leads to misallocation of resources. 'Customs Modernization Handbook' provides an overview of the key elements of a successful customs modernization strategy and draws lessons from a number of successful customs reforms as well as from customs reform projects that have been undertaken by the World Bank. It describes a number of key import procedures, that have proved particularly troublesome for customs administrations and traders, and provides practical guidelines to enhance their efficiency. The Handbook also reviews the appropriate legal framework for customs operations as well as strategies to combat corruption.


Transfer Pricing Rules and Compliance Handbook

Transfer Pricing Rules and Compliance Handbook

Author: Marc M. Levey

Publisher: CCH

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780808015536

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This book gives an overview of the basic principles of transfer pricing and U.S. transfer pricing rules, and the impact of transfer pricing on other issues such as customs valuation, Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and FASB Interpretation no. 48.


Tax Administration Reform in China

Tax Administration Reform in China

Author: John Brondolo

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2016-03-17

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 1475523610

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Tax administration improvements have contributed significantly to a doubling of China’s tax-to-GDP ratio and the substantial reduction in taxpayers’ compliance costs since the mid-1990s. This paper describes the key features of China’s tax administration and their evolution over the last 20 years. It also identifes emerging challenges to the tax system and areas where further tax administration improvements are needed to sustain tax revenue and reduce taxpayers’ compliance costs in the future.