Do Transfer Pricing Reforms Lead to a Boom in Tax Consultants? / Dina Pomeranz, Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pomeranz, Dina.

Contributor:

Suárez Serrato, Juan Carlos.

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w33736.

NBER working paper series no. w33736

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2025.

Summary:

The OECD has promoted the adoption of internationally standardized transfer pricing rules to curb profit shifting for tax avoidance by multinational firms. Bustos et al. (2023) analyzed a large reform in Chile based on these OECD standards and found that it led to a surge in tax advisory services. This paper investigates the external validity of this finding. Combining employment history data with information on countries' strictness of transfer pricing regulations over time, we analyze the effect for four countries: Chile, Colombia, Spain, and Uruguay. Event-study difference-in-differences analysis shows that reforms led to substantial increase in transfer pricing consultants in most cases. The effect is larger when the reform is stronger and when a country has a lower level of pre-treatment transfer pricing strictness or of transfer pricing consultants.

Notes:

May 2025.

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