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Reporting requirements of transfer pricing (“TP”) documentation

11/23/2020
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l Reporting requirements of transfer pricing (“TP”) documentation

A company including a foreign-invested company must submit the following TP documents together with its annual corporate income tax return within 3 months from the end of each fiscal year to the tax authorities:

Ÿ Report on the method of arm's length price determination

Ÿ Schedules of international transactions with Overseas Specially Related Parties ("OSRP")

Ÿ Summarized Profit and Loss Statements of OSRP

A company may omit submission of the “Report on the Method of Arm’s Length Price Determination”, if the company meets one of the following conditions:

Ÿ goods transactions (including both sales and purchase transactions) with its OSRP must not exceed KRW 5 billion in total AND service transactions (including both services rendered and received) with its OSRP must not exceed KRW 1 billion in total; or

Ÿ goods transactions (including both sales and purchase transactions) with its each OSRP must not exceed KRW 1 billion AND service transactions (including both services rendered and received) with its each OSRP must not exceed KRW 200 million.

Also, a company may omit submission of the “Summarized Profit and Loss Statement of OSRP”, if goods transactions (including both sales and purchase transactions) with its concerned OSRP does not exceed KRW 1 billion AND service transactions (including both services rendered and received) with its concerned OSRP does not exceed KRW 200 million.

If a company does not submit the reports explained above within the filing due date and fails to submit the reports upon request of the tax authorities, a penalty up to KRW 100 million may be assessed.