TPED invited to speak at IBFD 6th African Tax Symposium
June 2021
TPED invited to speak at IBFD 6th African Tax Symposium – Trends in International Taxation: An African Perspective, held on-line.
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TPED invited to speak by the South-African Institute of Taxation
November 2020
Three members of TPED, Sébastien Gonnet, Romero Tavares, Michael Hewson were invited to speak at the 2020 Transfer Pricing Conference of SAIT (South-African Institute of Taxation).
TPED trains the tax administration in Burkina Faso
October 2020
In the framework of a Program for good Governance, Burkina Faso had identified a need for capacity building for its tax administration as regards the identification and treatment of multinational companies’ abuses.
TPED invited to speak
at IBFD 5th African Tax Symposium
TPED invited to speak at IBFD 5th African Tax Symposium – Trends in International Taxation: An African Perspective, in Cape Town, South- Africa.
TPED President Sébastien Gonnet presented on The Elusive Search for Comparables in Africa – a proposed process. Mr Gonnet’s presentation took place in the context of a panel covering Transfer Pricing led by Emily Muyaa.
The Elusive Search for Comparables in Africa
TPED invited to speak at IBFD 4th African Tax Symposium – Trends in International Taxation: An African Perspective, in Mombasa, Kenya. TPED President Sébastien Gonnet presented on The Elusive Search for Comparables in Africa in a panel session covering Transfer Pricing in Africa, chaired by Emily Muyaa. The presentation aimed at evaluating the various options available to tax authorities and tax payers to cope with the lack of comparables in Africa. Aligned with the work done by the Platform of Cooperation on Tax (IMF, OECD, UN, WBG), Mr Gonnet discussed two options to establish local arm’s length ranges / safe harbors:
- Option #1 : Leverage from local domestic available financial information;
- Option #2 : Define economically-sound adjustments to non-local comparables.