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Arm’s-Length Price Might Involve Later-Available Information

APR. 17, 2019

ECC 201945026

DATED APR. 17, 2019
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Citations: ECC 201945026

UILC: 482.00-00
Release Date: 11/8/2019

ID: CCA_2019041717114040

From: * * *
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 5:11:40 PM
To: * * *
Cc: * * *
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Subject: Chief Counsel Advice

* * * — You have requested our advice on whether anything in the Treasury Regulations prohibits contemporaneous but later-available information from being used to calculate the arm's length price of a transaction under section 481. Nothing in the regulations, by itself, prohibits information (that is otherwise reliable and relevant to the transaction) from being considered in calculating the arm's length price under section 482 solely by virtue of the information becoming available to the taxpayer or the Service after the date of the transaction. The information must meet all other applicable standards of relevance and reliability — which may vary based on the type of information or transfer pricing method used or other facts and circumstances — and actual timing constraints may apply such as, for example, statutes of limitations and Treasury Regulation section 1.482-1(a)(3) and (g)(4). In this regard, it should be noted that the scope of the data that may be used to calculate an arm's length price (and attendant adjustment if appropriate) under section 482, and the scope of the data described in Treasury Regulation section 1.6662-6(d)(2)(ii)(A)(2) for documentation purposes to avoid potential transfer pricing penalties, although often overlapping, are two separate standards intended for two separate purposes.

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