The economics of advance pricing agreements

Johannes Becker, Ronald Davies and Gitte Jakobs ()
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Gitte Jakobs: University of Münster

No 1426, Working Papers from Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation

Abstract: Advance pricing agreements (APAs) determine transfer prices for intrafi?rm transactions in advance. This paper interprets these contracts as a means to overcome a hold-up problem that occurs because governments cannot commit to non-excessive future tax rates. In addition, with private information, just as in practice, our APAs will be complex and require lengthy negotiations. Nevertheless, implemented APAs lead to a Pareto improvement even when all agents are risk neutral. However, not all efficient APAs are concluded in equilibrium. International agreements to avoid double taxation will likely reduce the number of realized APAs.

Keywords: Advance Pricing Agreements; Corporate Taxation; Multinational Firms; Transfer Pricing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G32 H25 M41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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