Haruka Abe

Principal
Haruka Abe | Transfer Pricing | Charles River Associates

Ms. Haruka Abe is a principal in the Transfer Pricing Practice of Charles River Associates and has over a decade of transfer pricing planning and compliance, cross-border dispute resolution, and valuation experience.

Her career is defined by her ability to navigate the complexities of the global tax landscape for a diverse portfolio of clients, ranging from agile, high-growth startups to some of the world’s most prominent Fortune 500 enterprises.

Haruka specializes in aligning transfer pricing structures with overarching business objectives, ensuring both robust compliance and operational efficiency. Her experience spans the full lifecycle of transfer pricing, from multi-jurisdictional planning and IP valuations to defending complex positions during IRS and global tax authority audits (including ATO, HMRC, and NTA). With a deep command of compliance requirements across the globe, she provides a steady hand for clients in a wide variety of industries, including Life Sciences, SaaS, and Financial Services, delivering clarity in an increasingly complex global regulatory environment.

Selected engagements

  • 01
    Global benchmarking for digital services company
    CRA was engaged by a multinational digital services company to assist with their global comparable company benchmarking. Leveraging our extensive experience in...
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  • 02
    Transfer pricing audit defense and negotiation
    CRA’s Rebel Curd and Haruka Abe assisted multiple SaaS taxpayers in relation to the transfer pricing audits by the Japanese tax authority (NTA). In a case...
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