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how do a corporation leverage transfer pricing and how import duties might influence transfer pricing policies?
Corporations leverage transfer pricing to make use of the tax rate arbitrage available across the geographies. A multi national company (MNC) will like to allocate higher profits in a geography which has lower incidence of taxes, thereby saving total tax outgo.
Thus, this is the way MNCs leverage the transfer price to make use of tax arbitrage.
Transfer pricing not only impacts the level of direct taxes collected by the country but also the indirect taxes such as custom duties or import duties. Government collects such duties by levying certain %age on the import value. For import purposes, the transfer price has a direct impact on the determination of the value of the import.