The reassessment of the transfer pricing policy of a multinational enterprise results in principle in double taxation. Indeed, the amount reassessed by a State at the level of an affiliated company has already been taxed by another State at the level of the other affiliated company party to the reassessed transaction; the same income is therefore taxed twice. A transfer pricing reassessment can also have a withholding tax impact: in certain countries (such as France), the amount reassessed characterizes a deemed distribution of profit subject (depending on the tax treaty applicable) to a withholding tax.
Transfer pricing reassessment can therefore have significant tax impacts.