This article is going to offer insight into some of the latest changes brought by the Regulation of the Minister of Finance, Funds and Regional Policy of 18 December 2020 amending the regulation on transfer pricing information in personal income tax and corporate income tax to be reported in TPR-P and TPR-C forms. The said provisions have been in force since 1 January 2021 and apply to transfer pricing reporting for a tax year commencing after 31 December 2019.
Completion Accounts is one of the two mechanisms (the other being the Locked Box) used to determine the final price in the process of closing M&A transactions. In this model, the final acquisition price is determined only on the basis of the balance sheet of the target entity prepared as at the date of signing the final contract that transfers the ownership from the Seller to the Buyer. However, the practice shows that preparing such data for the said date is actually impossible, and the process of obtaining and processing it can take weeks or even months after the Share Purchase Agreement has been concluded. So how does it work?
Business operations often involve foreign currency transactions. These transactions should be accounted for in the domestic currency, which means they must be translated, measured and properly presented. This, in turn, raises a number of questions about domestic and international reporting. The regulations found in International Accounting Standard 21 “The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates” offer a helping hand here.
Locked box is a formula for closing M&A transactions that is proving increasingly popular in recent years and tends to replace completion accounts. What is essential for the locked box arrangement is that the transaction price is determined on the basis of the historical balance sheet at a pre-signing date and is not then subject to any post-completion adjustment.
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Doing the bookkeeping on your own is not always and not necessarily a good idea, and that is mainly because the accounting and tax regulations are confusing and their interpretations differ. Our long experience in saving sinking ships shows that it is simply better to leave some things to professionals.
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When keeping the accounting books, you come across many economic events you are obliged to correctly recognise in the financial statements at the end of the reporting period. Sometimes you come across unusual, less common events, such as inventory valuation or reserve recognition. Non-current assets held for sale and assets related to discontinued operations, regulated in detail in IFRS 5, are other examples here.
The revolutionary draft amendment of CIT and PIT Acts has recently been published amidst plenty of controversy, in particular about the CIT taxation of limited partnerships. This is one out of many changes suggested by the legislator and discussed in our Tax Alert. Important amendments that are supposed to enter into force in the beginning of 2021 include transfer pricing regulations, and that is what we are going to focus on in this article.
On the other hand, it is not always the case that the owner wants to sell the whole of their business. Moreover, and not infrequently, the owner is not even willing to sell the controlling stake. However, there are situations where selling a part of a business seems to be a good and reasonable solution.
