EY’s Global Tax Alert provides details on Australia’s new Diverted Profits Tax (DPT), effective in 2018 for calendar year taxpayers.
- Penalty up to 40% can be assessed
- Interaction with transfer pricing documentation and country-by-country (CbC) risk assessment
- Diverted profits taxed at less than 24% are vulnerable
- Proactive review of one’s documentation and risk assessment is recommended
Australia has patterned their DPT after the UK implemented a similar scheme, although posing some different characteristics.
As countries are reaching out to tax profits that are subject to a lower rate of tax elsewhere, this is providing a license to tax that cannot be ignored by multinationals with Australian operations.
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