CRA was engaged by a Silicon Valley software company to prepare an economic analysis of the licensing of German registered patents for German withholding tax purposes. Following the top-down approach stipulated in the guidance from the German tax authorities, Rebel Curd and Robin Hart analyzed the specifics of the company’s intellectual property strategy to allocate a reasonable value to patents compared to software copyrights and trade secrets. Further analysis was performed on the composition of the patent portfolio, the vintage of software that each individual patent relates to, and the company’s paid vs. free software and applications.
CRA acknowledged in ITR's 2023 World Transfer Pricing Guide
CRA is pleased to be acknowledged in International Tax Review’s (ITR) 2023 World Transfer Pricing Guide as one of the “leading” transfer pricing practices in...