Transfer Pricing in a Pandemic – Lessons from China

It has been very encouraging to receive the news from Xiaofang’s family and from our friends that life in China is starting to open up again. Her parents are now busy in her grandmother's vegetable garden in the countryside near Xinzheng (having been allowed to leave the family home in the city), local schools in Henan have reopened for A-level equivalent students, friends in Wuhan are back to work in their offices, and restaurants in places like Shanghai have opened their doors and are serving customers once more. Hopefully we in the rest of the world are just a couple of months behind, although personally I think we all have at least 6 months of semi restricted mobility to look forward to.

Here’s a link to an excellent article on some of the thought processes for reviewing transfer pricing policies and intercompany agreements for multinational groups, specifically in the context of recent experiences in China and the effect of force majeure clauses:

Transfer Pricing in a Pandemic - Lessons From China

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