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Introduce about Transfer price in Vietnam. How to avoid. Organizations and individuals engaged in productions and business of goods and services, conducting all or part of business activities in VN and having business transactions with related party shall be subject to TP disclosure and documentation. Bài viết nói về khái niệm chuyển giá tại Việt Nam. Cách nhận biết hành vi chuyển giá giữa các công ty tại Việt Nam và nước ngoài; Rủi ro về thuế liên quan đến việc chuyển giá....
TRANSFER PRICE Agenda Scope of governing/ Application How to test related parties Method of determining market price Tax administration Legal documents ◦ Circular 66/2010/TT-BTC dated 22/04/2010 replacing Cir 117/2005/TT-BTC issued by the Ministry of Trade ◦ Cir 66 is effective from the 2010 tax period ◦ Applied to all transactions between related parties SCOPE OF APPLICATION ◦ Who is subject to TP: Organizations and individuals engaged in productions and business of goods and services, conducting all or part of business activities in VN and having business transactions with related party shall be subject to TP disclosure and documentation ◦ Governing: Transactions of sales, purchase, exchange, lease, transfer or agreements of goods or services during the course of business between related parties ◦ Scope of non governing: Business transactions in connection with product which are subject to price control by the State of VN TEST OF RELATED PARTIES Control Test Management Test Other Test CONTROL TEST ◦ By equity/ assets ownership: oOwnership of at least of 20% shares/total assets in other companies; oThe two companies holding common shares in another 3rd party where the common owners hold at least 20% of shares/ total assets in the rd party; oOwnership of at least 10% shares/ total assets by the largest shareholders in the Company ◦ By Loan relation: providing or guaranteeing loans which constitute more than 50% total of medium & long term liabilities of another company MANAGEMENT TEST ◦ Parties are considered as related parties if: oOne parties appoints half of executive board members of another party; oOne parties appoints a member who decides the financial and operation affairs of another companies; oBoth parties have, in aggregate, more than half of the members or a single common member on the board of directors, who decides financial or operation affairs, whereby such members is/ are decide by the same related parties oThe personnel, financial or operational affairs of both parties are controlled by members of a family (spouses, parents, children, siblings, grand parents, grand children or relatives etc…) OTHER TEST ◦ Parties have the following relation are considered as related parties: oBetween the head office and its PE; oBetween PEs of the same Head office oPayment of royalty, which account for more than 50% cost of goods sold; oSupply/ control for more than 50% of productions materials/ output oJoint business on contractual basis THE NEED FOR TP REGULATIONS ◦ The information of TP regulations to regulate the transactions between related parties which use transfer pricing as a tool for evading tax and profit maximization ◦ “Market price” is understood as price between parties who are unrelated and on arm length basis ◦ To ensure that there is no transfer pricing between related parties, the company is required to demonstrate its transaction price with related parties is similar to “market price” METHOD TO DETERMINE “MARKET PRICE” Comparable unrelated transaction price (So sanh gia giao dich doc lap) Resale price (Gia ban lai) Cost plus profit (gia von cong lai) Comparable profits (So sanh loi nhuan) Profit split (Tach loi nhuan) Comparative unrelated transaction price Example 1: Vespa VN is a 100% foreign invested enterprise and operates a motorbike producer and has the following transaction in 2013: o Sales 1,000 LX 125 to Vespa Italy with the price of VND70 million each o Sales 500 LX 125 to motor dealers with the price of VND90 million each The price of VND70 million is considered as not truly reflected the market price and Vespa VN is required to impose the price of VND90 million to calculate its CIT liability Resale price o This method is used to determine purchase price from related parties based on adjusted resale price to unrelated parties (i.e less gross margin and other expense) o Primary factor is the function of the business o Subordinate factors are economic environment, characters of the products and terms and conditions of the contract Resale price This method is normally applied to transactions with respect of products in the phrase of simple services and commercial distribution which have short cycle from purchase to sales and rarely subject to seasonal change There are no considerable value added to the products by way of processing, assembling, etc Resale price NSSCV VN is a JV between NSS Corp and NSS Thailand The Company operates as a steel distributor for NSS Corp Following transaction ware noted: o In 2013, NSSCV received 1,000 tons steel for an amount of $55,000 o NSSCV sold all for an amount of $60,000 Knowing that Possco is a similar distributor and has the same operation in VND Possco reported gross margin in 2013 is 20% In this case, the cost of steel purchased from NSS Corp shall be: $60,000 * 80%/ 120% Cost Plus This method is to determine the Sale price to related parties based on the Cost of products (i.e plus margin) This method is somehow contradictory to the resale price method Primary factor for considered is the functions of the business Subordinate factors are economic environment, characters of the products and terms and conditions of the contract Cost Plus This method is normally applied in the following cases: ◦ Transaction in the phrase of production, assembly, manufacturing of products for sales to related parties ◦ Transaction between related parties in order to perform a joint venture contract for production, assembly, manufacturing or processing of products or to implement agreements for supply of inputs of productions and for off take of output products ◦ Transactions of provisions of services to related parties Cost Plus LV VN is a subsidiary of LV France and is responsible for processing of shoes for LV France Its business outcomes FY2013 are: ◦ Turnover (i.e processing fees): VND15 billion; ◦ Cost of sales: VND13 billion; ◦ Selling and GA expense: VND1.8 billion Knowing that Viet Tien is a similar business in textile-industry and its contract with independent overseas vendor, the processing fees shall be determined as all cost plus 7% In this case, LV VN’s turnover shall be: (13 + 1.8) * 107% = VND 15,836 billion PROFIT COMPARISION This method is to determined profit ratio of products with related transactions based on profit ratio from unrelated transactions Primary factor for considered is the functions of the business Subordinate factors are economic environment, characters of the products and terms and conditions of the contract PROFIT COMPARISION This method is considered as extension method from resale price and cost plus methods Therefore, this method is applied widely in the case referred in the above two method PROFIT SPLIT This method is to determined the profit of each related party from the total profit of a comprehensive related party transaction based on the manner of profit split in approaches for split: o Approach 1: Based on the proportion of costs and expense as incurred by each related party o Approach 2: This is complicated method with two phases of profit split including the split of basic profit (loi nhuan co ban) and split of additional profit (loi nhuan phu troi) Factors for considerations are similar to resale price, cost plus and profit comparison method PROFIT SPLIT This method is normally applied in the following cases: o The cases where related parties jointly take part in research and development of new products or development of products being exclusive intangible assets o Or transaction in the process of transitional production or business between such related parties from raw materials to finished goods for distribution of products attached to the ownership or use of the sole intellectual property PROFIT SPLIT Example: Samsung VN and Samsung Korea are subsidiaries of Samsung Corp Samsung Korea is responsible for development and design of Ominia 9900 while Samsung VN is responsible for manufacturing and production The following financial information FY2013 were reported: o SS Korea incurred $10 million for the development and design o SS VN incurred $100 million fro the manufacturing works o Total sales during the year were $150 million Profit split: SS Korea: (150 – 100 – 10) * 10/110 SS VN: (150 – 100 – 10) * 100/110 COMPARABLE DATA Goverment resource, research institutes or industry group recognized by the Government Public available information sources from accredited independent professionals (e.g auditors or company registration) Annual financial reported of listed companies Document prepare for tax purpose Data/ documents of unauthenticated resources may be used as reference only Note that comparative figures must be covered for at least consecutive years TAX ADMINISTRATION ◦ A disclosure of related paty transaction mus be enclosed as part of the CIT annual finalization (Form GCN01/QLT) ◦ Documentation required: Document must be contemporaneous, up to date and comply with accounting and taxation bookkeeping regulations Document must describe the following: .Relationship with related parties; .Details of transactions with related parties; .Details of adopted methods of determination of related parties Non-Compliance Issues ◦ Tax authority have the right to impose a deemed amount of taxable income or tax liabilities in non-airm’s lenght transaction when: oTax payer used unauthenticated/ improper data to determine the price of transactions with related parties oFails to disclose related parties transactions (For GCN-01/QLT) or to provide document promptly; oFails to apply or intentionally apply the improper provisions of Cir 66 or the business fails to provide documentation within 90 days from the notice of the tax authority ◦ The tax authority is now increasing concern as well as commence to take practical step over TP issue [...]... adjustment is required 3 In any case there s a force majeure (e.g disaster or fire, or regulated price by the state), the related party is allowed to use the price in line with the practical circumstance Factor in determining market price There are 4 factors: o Characteristics of the products (Dac tinh san pham); o Function of the business (Chuc nang cua co so san xuat, kinh doanh) o Terms and conditions... economic environment and functions of the business 1 Comparative unrelated transaction price This method is normally applied in the following cases: o A business establishment conducting both independent transactions and related party transactions for the same type of product o Individual transactions for each type of products circulated in the market o Individual transactions for each form of services,... France Its business outcomes FY2013 are: ◦ Turnover (i.e processing fees): VND15 billion; ◦ Cost of sales: VND13 billion; ◦ Selling and GA expense: VND1.8 billion Knowing that Viet Tien is a similar business in textile-industry and its contract with independent overseas vendor, the processing fees shall be determined as all cost plus 7% In this case, LV VN’s turnover shall be: (13 + 1.8) * 107% = VND... Following transaction ware noted: o In 2013, NSSCV received 1,000 tons steel for an amount of $55,000 o NSSCV sold all for an amount of $60,000 Knowing that Possco is a similar distributor and has the same operation in VND Possco reported gross margin in 2013 is 20% In this case, the cost of steel purchased from NSS Corp shall be: $60,000 * 80%/ 120% 3 Cost Plus This method is to determine the Sale price. .. Corp Samsung Korea is responsible for development and design of Ominia 9900 while Samsung VN is responsible for manufacturing and production The following financial information FY2013 were reported: o SS Korea incurred $10 million for the development and design o SS VN incurred $100 million fro the manufacturing works o Total sales during the year were $150 million Profit split: SS Korea: (150 –... determine market price: 1 The applicable method is the one suitable to the transactional conditions and has the most complete and reliable information/ data for comparative analysis 2 The Company select the most suitable price among the market range which will be used as the basis to adjust the related transaction price If the related party price is not less than the most suitable value within the price. .. plus margin) This method is somehow contradictory to the resale price method Primary factor for considered is the functions of the business Subordinate factors are economic environment, characters of the products and terms and conditions of the contract 3 Cost Plus This method is normally applied in the following cases: ◦ Transaction in the phrase of production, assembly, manufacturing of products... unrelated transaction price Example 1: Vespa VN is a 100% foreign invested enterprise and operates a motorbike producer and has the following transaction in 2013: o Sales 1,000 LX 125 to Vespa Italy with the price of VND70 million each o Sales 500 LX 125 to motor dealers with the price of VND90 million each The price of VND70 million is considered as not truly reflected the market price and Vespa VN... the market price and Vespa VN is required to impose the price of VND90 million to calculate its CIT liability 2 Resale price o This method is used to determine purchase price from related parties based on adjusted resale price to unrelated parties (i.e less gross margin and other expense) o Primary factor is the function of the business o Subordinate factors are economic environment, characters of the... method with two phases of profit split including the split of basic profit (loi nhuan co ban) and split of additional profit (loi nhuan phu troi) Factors for considerations are similar to resale price, cost plus and profit comparison method 5 PROFIT SPLIT This method is normally applied in the following cases: o The cases where related parties jointly take part in research and development of new products