Which method of transfer pricing considered when the supply division is a monopoly producer?

Which method of transfer pricing considered when the supply division is a monopoly producer?

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Which method of transfer pricing considered when the supply division is a monopoly producer?

Which method of transfer pricing considered when the supply division is a monopoly producer?

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Abstract

The paper analyzes multinational enterprises' incentives to manipulate internal transfer prices to take advantage of tax differences across countries, and implications of transfer-pricing regulations as a countermeasure against such profit shifting. We find that tax-motivated foreign direct investment (FDI) may entail inefficient internal production but may benefit consumers. Thus, encouraging transfer-pricing behavior to some extent can enhance social welfare. Furthermore, we consider tax competition between two countries to explore its interplay with transfer-pricing regulations. We show that the FDI source country will be willing to set a higher tax rate and tolerate some profit shifting to a tax haven country if the regulation is tight enough. We also indicate a novel mechanism through which it is the larger country that undertakes tax-motivated FDI, the pattern we often observe in reality.

Keywords

Multinational enterprise

Corporate tax

Transfer pricing

Foreign direct investment

Arm's length principle

Tax competition

JEL classification

F12

F23

H21

H26

L12

L51

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On the Economics of Transfer Pricing

The Journal of Business

Vol. 29, No. 3 (Jul., 1956)

, pp. 172-184 (13 pages)

Published By: The University of Chicago Press

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2350664

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The Journal of Business ceased publication with the November 2006 issue (Volume 79, Number 6). Founded in 1928, The Journal of Business was the first scholarly journal to focus on business-related research and played a pioneering role in fostering serious academic research about business. However, in appreciation of the increasing specialization in business scholarship, as reflected in the emergence of many specialized business journals, the faculty of the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business decided after careful deliberation and extensive dialogue to cease publication of the more broadly focused Journal at the end of 2006, after nearly eight decades of publication by the University of Chicago Press. 

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Which method of transfer pricing considered when the supplier division is a monopoly producer?

Opportunity Cost Transfer Pricing This may also be the case where the supplier division is a monopoly producer or the user division is a monopoly consumer.

What are the methods of transfer pricing?

Here are five widely used transfer pricing methods your business should consider..
Comparable Uncontrolled Price. ... .
Cost-Plus. ... .
Resale-Minus. ... .
Transactional Net Margin (TNMM) ... .
Profit Split..

What are the three types of transfer pricing?

Generally, companies can determine transfer prices three different ways: market-based transfer prices, cost- based transfer prices, and negotiated transfer prices.

Which pricing method is useful when the selling division is operating below capacity?

Variable cost-based pricing approach is useful when the selling division is operating below capacity. The manager of the selling division will generally not like this transfer price because it yields no profit to that division. In this pricing system, only variable production costs are transferred.