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Finland Considering Provision to Allow Tax Authorities to Recharacterize or Disregard Transactions in Transfer Pricing Cases

30 January 2015

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Proposed Changes

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Finland

On 7 January 2015, the Finnish government issued a draft proposal to amend the countries transfer pricing rules by adding a new general anti-avoidance clause. The clause would empower the Finnish tax authorities to recharacterize or disregard transactions when the legal form of a transaction does not correspond with its commercial substance. The proposal is in response to a Finnish Supreme Court decision in 2014, that a transaction may only be recharacterized for transfer pricing purpose when the country's general anti-avoidance rules and the transfer pricing adjustment rules both apply. That decision was in regard to the recharacterization of a...