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A Transfer Pricing Impact Assessment helps businesses evaluate whether their intercompany transactions comply with the Arm’s Length Principle (ALP) under the UAE Corporate Tax Law (Federal Decree-Law No. 47 of 2022).

Transfer Pricing Impact Assessment

Businesses require an expert’s guidance to decide whether they need to abide by transfer pricing regulations in the UAE. It is advisable to consult with the best transfer pricing consultants in UAE to carry out an assessment of your company’s related party transactions to avoid compliance failure. Transfer pricing advisers in UAE will help you plan your company’s transfer pricing.



Transfer Pricing Impact Assessment

A Transfer Pricing (TP) Impact Assessment is a comprehensive review that evaluates whether a business’s related-party transactions meet the Arm’s Length Principle (ALP) under the UAE Corporate Tax Law (Federal Decree-Law No. 47 of 2022).

It helps businesses identify potential transfer pricing risks, assess compliance readiness, and determine the next steps to align with the UAE Federal Tax Authority (FTA) requirements.

This assessment is particularly important for Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) and UAE-based entities involved in cross-border or intercompany transactions with related or connected persons.



Key Challenges for UAE Businesses

Many UAE businesses are now subject to corporate tax for the first time and may not fully understand how related party and connected person transactions are evaluated under the Transfer Pricing framework.

Common challenges include:

  • Lack of awareness of TP applicability: Many entities are uncertain whether their business activities fall within the transfer pricing framework or meet the threshold for compliance under UAE law.
  • Unsegmented financial data: Businesses often fail to distinguish between related-party and third-party transactions, making it difficult to perform accurate benchmarking or apply suitable transfer pricing methods.
  • Absence of formal intercompany agreements or benchmarking studies: Without structured agreements or comparability analysis, companies cannot substantiate the arm’s-length nature of their internal pricing.
  • Unclear pricing mechanisms for intercompany transactions: When there are no defined mark-up policies or pricing formulas for goods, services, or management fees, transactions may deviate from market standards, creating tax risks.
  • Risk of FTA scrutiny and adjustments: The Federal Tax Authority (FTA) can challenge non-arm’s-length intercompany or connected-person transactions, leading to income adjustments, disallowance of deductions, or tax penalties.

Without a proper TP Impact Assessment, businesses may face tax reassessments, penalties, and loss of deductions due to mispricing or insufficient documentation.

Why Conduct a Transfer Pricing Impact Assessment?

A Transfer Pricing Impact Assessment provides a strategic overview of your group’s tax exposure, identifies pricing risks, and ensures alignment with FTA regulations before audits or reporting deadlines. It forms a cornerstone of responsible transfer pricing management for all UAE-based groups.


Key Features and Benefits include:

  • Compliance Assurance: We assess whether your intercompany transactions — including sales, services, loans, or management charges — comply with the Arm’s Length Principle (ALP) and OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines. Our methodology ensures your pricing is in line with transfer pricing UAE regulations and FTA expectations.
  • Financial Transparency and Control: We help segregate revenues, costs, and profits between related and third-party transactions for better visibility and defensibility. This transparency supports accurate reporting and strengthens the economic substance of your operations.
  • Strategic Decision Support : Our team provides actionable recommendations on the most suitable transfer pricing methods (such as Transactional Net Margin Method (TNMM) or Comparable Uncontrolled Price (CUP)) and guides you through disclosure obligations, threshold evaluations, and internal process enhancements.
  • Tax Optimization and Efficiency : By ensuring your intercompany pricing structure is both fair and compliant, we help minimize tax risks, preserve legitimate deductions, and improve after-tax profitability across your group entities.
  • Global Alignment with OECD Guidelines : We align your pricing structure with the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines, ensuring consistency across jurisdictions and safeguarding against double taxation or cross-border compliance conflicts.


Your Trusted Partner in Transfer Pricing Advisory

At Young Global, we specialize in conducting Transfer Pricing Impact Assessments tailored to UAE Corporate Tax regulations.

Our dedicated Transfer Pricing specialists combine in-depth FTA regulatory insight with global best practices from the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines, ensuring your related-party and connected-person transactions are priced fairly and defensibly.


Our Scope of Support Includes:

  • Comprehensive Transaction Analysis: We identify and validate your related-party and connected-person transactions under the UAE Transfer Pricing framework, mapping the flow of goods, services, and financial arrangements within the group.
  • Functional and Risk Profiling: Through fact-finding sessions and operational mapping, we assess your entity’s functions, assets, and risks to determine the most appropriate arm’s length pricing structure.
  • Benchmark-Driven Compliance Evaluation: Our consultants perform high-level transfer pricing economic analysis and benchmarking to evaluate whether your pricing policies reflect market-driven margins and comply with UAE CT Law Article 34.
  • Strategic Risk Assessment and Advisory: We identify potential risk areas, evaluate your current intercompany pricing models, and provide actionable recommendations to enhance compliance and minimize FTA audit exposure.
  • Implementation Roadmap: Our deliverable includes a detailed TP Feasibility and Risk Assessment Report, outlining findings, key insights, and a roadmap for achieving full readiness under UAE transfer pricing rules.
  • Management Workshops and Review Sessions: We conduct interactive sessions with your finance and tax teams to align management understanding with UAE TP requirements and global pricing principles.

At Young Global, our approach goes beyond basic compliance — we help you build sustainable, tax-efficient, and audit-ready pricing frameworks that align with both UAE Federal Tax Authority expectations and international best practices.

FAQs to Guide Your Business Decisions

Concise insights on our core services

It is an analytical review of intercompany transactions to determine whether they comply with the Arm’s Length Principle and UAE TP regulations.

Any UAE entity engaging in transactions with related parties or connected persons — whether domestic or cross-border — should conduct this assessment.

Ideally, annually or whenever significant changes occur in your intercompany pricing, business structure, or related-party arrangements.

Non-compliance may result in FTA adjustments, tax penalties, and denial of expense deductions for payments exceeding market value.

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