Transfer Pricing Economists for Development (TPED) is a Paris-based Non-Profit Organization aiming to promote business economics knowledge-sharing in transfer pricing, notably in emerging and developing countries.

We believe that such knowledge sharing could:

• Improve communication between local tax administrations and multinational enterprises,
• Enhance cooperative compliance and taxpayer morale, and serve as a state-building initiative
• Allow more secured revenue collection in transfer pricing audits where economic analysis is used
• Discourage certain countries to move away from the arm’s length standard

Emerging and developing countries are getting increasingly concerned about transfer pricing and increasingly endorse transfer pricing regulations, while a number of international and multilateral organizations (UN, OECD, the World Bank, the IMF, etc.) are supporting such initiatives.

These international organizations are key contributors to capacity building and legislative development in transfer pricing throughout the world. Our mission is to complement and support their initiatives by providing business economics content supporting capacity building and normative development.

Content & Tools: Development and Implementation

• • • Identify technical issues in business economics that are critically relevant for the application of arm’s length transfer pricing in emerging economies and developing countries and initiate, edit and publish economic studies covering selected topics
    • Assist in the development of tools for the practical implementation of the findings of published economic studies
    • Roundtables, Bilateral meetings and Webcasts that aim at addressing transfer pricing economic aspects with the different stakeholders of the TP arena

Ad-hoc technical assistance

Our goal is to deliver actionable business economics knowledge in TP:

• • • We can pool a unique combination of Academics and private sector professionals (industry and practice) to deliver actionable transfer pricing knowledge in all aspects of the transfer pricing lifecycle and value chain.
    • When required, we can also reach out to our privileged contacts that are not members of TPED to support specific initiatives
    • We have been involved in expert assistance to a EU member country and have participated in several workshops in emerging economies