Do Transfer Pricing Consultants Lead to a Boom in Tax Consultants?

Dina Pomeranz and Suárez Serrato, Juan Carlos

No 20208, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: The OECD has promoted the adoption of internationally standardized transfer pricing rules to curb profit shifting for tax avoidance by multinational firms. Bustos et al. (2023) analyzed a large reform in Chile based on these OECD standards and found that it led to a surge in tax advisory services. This paper investigates the external validity of this finding. Combining employment history data with information on countries’ strictness of transfer pricing regulations over time, we analyze the effect for four countries: Chile, Colombia, Spain, and Uruguay. Event study difference-in-differences analysis shows that reforms led to substantial increase in transfer pricing consultants in most cases. The effect is larger when the reform is stronger and when a country has a lower level of pre-treatment transfer pricing strictness or of transfer pricing consultants.

Keywords: Transfer pricing; Profit shifting; Consulting; Tax avoidance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 H26 J21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-05
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