New Guidelines: Individual shareholders can cause companies to be related

Thailand follows the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations (‘OECD Guidelines’), and as such, the Thai Revenue Code (‘TRC’) places reporting obligations on certain companies (and juristic partnerships) which have related party transactions. These can include a Transfer Pricing Disclosure Form, Local File, and Country by Country reporting. It is therefore […]

Update from the Thai Revenue Department regarding the Transfer Pricing Disclosure Form

On 28 March 2022, the Thai Revenue Department (“TRD”) published a Notification of Ministry of Finance regarding TPDF filing deadline extension for FY 2020. Moreover, the TRD also recently issued additional explanation and Q&A for the Transfer Pricing Disclosure Form (“TPDF”) on its TRD website. We have summarised key points as follows: TPDF filing deadline extension […]

In step with BEPS transfer pricing rules

Thailand is currently going through a period of rapid improvement and development which is creating opportunities and benefits for foreign businesses. Improvements are being made in many areas, including changes to its tax laws to implement certain international tax standards. Notably, Thailand has adopted the OECD’s Inclusive Framework on ‘Base Erosion and Profit Shifting’ (BEPS) […]

The perfect location

Thailand’s economy and markets are rapidly developing, not least because it is geographically placed in the centre of Asia where more than half of the world’s population reside. This makes Thailand a perfect location from which to operate a global finance centre or position a holding company or park the global headquarters. This realisation has […]

The golden age of investment

Against the backdrop of temporary Covid-19 measures being introduced to protect and stabilise the economy of Thailand, the Government has also launched a whole raft of great investor-business incentives to dramatically boost the economy going forward, including years of being able to earn tax-free profits.  The numerous incentives have created an air of excitement and […]