The '
EU Joint Transfer Pricing Forum'' (EUJTPF) was set up in 2002 from an
EU communication
Communication (from la, communicare, meaning "to share" or "to be in relation with") is usually defined as the transmission of information. The term may also refer to the message communicated through such transmissions or the field of inqui ...
on eliminating
transfer pricing
In taxation and accounting, transfer pricing refers to the rules and methods for pricing transactions within and between enterprises under common ownership or control. Because of the potential for cross-border controlled transactions to distort ...
from the EU (in which it was called the "Joint Forum on Transfer Pricing"). It was to be composed of "Member
States and business representatives".
The business (non-government) members of the
forum
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* Forum (legal), designated space for public expression in the United States
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**Roman Forum, most famous example
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(as of 6 Oct 2013) comprises 16 people
Eight of these are transfer pricing
advisor
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s (including the Chair), and eight are
tax
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specialists in
multinationals.
References
Taxation in the European Union
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