Transfer pricing refers to pricing goods transferred between company units in different countries. The objectives are to maximize profits, facilitate parent control, and provide an evaluation basis for divisions. The main pricing methods are local cost plus markup, most efficient producer cost plus markup, negotiated prices, and arms-length prices. Strategies include minimizing prices to high-tariff countries and overpricing goods sent to high-tax countries.
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Transfer pricing refers to pricing goods transferred between company units in different countries. The objectives are to maximize profits, facilitate parent control, and provide an evaluation basis for divisions. The main pricing methods are local cost plus markup, most efficient producer cost plus markup, negotiated prices, and arms-length prices. Strategies include minimizing prices to high-tariff countries and overpricing goods sent to high-tax countries.
Transfer pricing refers to pricing goods transferred between company units in different countries. The objectives are to maximize profits, facilitate parent control, and provide an evaluation basis for divisions. The main pricing methods are local cost plus markup, most efficient producer cost plus markup, negotiated prices, and arms-length prices. Strategies include minimizing prices to high-tariff countries and overpricing goods sent to high-tax countries.
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Transfer pricing refers to pricing goods transferred between company units in different countries. The objectives are to maximize profits, facilitate parent control, and provide an evaluation basis for divisions. The main pricing methods are local cost plus markup, most efficient producer cost plus markup, negotiated prices, and arms-length prices. Strategies include minimizing prices to high-tariff countries and overpricing goods sent to high-tax countries.
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Transfer Pricing
Transfer pricing or intracompany pricing
refers to the pricing of goods transferred from operations or sales units in one country to the company’s unit elsewhere. The important objectives of transfer pricing are 1) To maximise the total profits of the company. 2) To facilitate parent-company control 3) To offer management at all levels , both in the product divisions and in the international divisions , an adequate basis for maintaining, developing and receiving credit for their own profitability. The four main types of transfer pricing methods are 1)Sales at the local manufacturing cost plus a standard mark up 2) Sales at the cost of the most efficient producer in the company plus a standard markup 3) Sales at negotiated prices 4) Arm’s length sales using the same prices as quoted to independent customers. Strategies associated with transfer pricing When goods are shipped to high –tariff countries, minimal transfer prices are quoted to reduce the effect of duty. To reduce income tax, goods are overpriced when transferred to units in high –tax countries When dividend repatriation is curtailed by government policy, income may be taken out in the form of high prices for products or components shipped to units in that country.