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Another point to watch is that indirect transactions can also be caught.  Indeed, there need not be any transaction between the two related parties.

The legislation has been worded so that a series of transactions may have to be taken together and treated as a single composite transaction, even if there is no direct transaction between the two related parties. 

An example might be if Company A pays over the odds to an independent supplier in return for the supplier making a supply to A’s subsidiary, B, on terms more preferential than B would have received on a stand-alone basis.  Even though the legal transactions are with the supplier, not between A and B, the transactions together form a series of transactions that bring about a benefit to B, so the transfer pricing rules might require that A’s profits be increased by the amount by which it overpaid the supplier.











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