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The promise

TP benchmarking study is quoted as a fixed fee before any work begins, from $2,500 for a standard engagement. You review the finished work before it is filed, and if the scope changes we re-quote before continuing.

What the engagement actually covers

A documented search: screening criteria, quantitative and qualitative filters, a manual rejection log with reasons, and the resulting range with the tested party's position in it.

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Three tiers

TierFixed feeWhat it covers
Standardfrom $2,500One year, one filing set, documents complete. Transfer pricing documentation as published on our fee schedule.
Complexfrom $2,500A certificate application, an information return, or a second country's filings alongside the first.
Multi-year or projectquoted on scopeWhere the engagement spans years or entities, the fee is built from the scope and quoted in writing first.

These are the fees on our own published schedule. The exact number for your engagement is confirmed in writing after the first call, and it is the number on the invoice.

What moves you up a tier

On this job specifically: How defensible the comparables have to be. A study intended for a filing and a study intended to survive an audit are different pieces of work.

  • The number of tax years in scope, because a catch-up package is priced per year
  • Whether an entity is involved as well as an individual
  • Whether an information return or a certificate application travels with the filing
  • The number of countries in the filing set — each one adds a return, a calendar and a credit computation

What adds cost

What adds cost is work that is not ours: reconstructing a year from statements, and waiting on a tax authority or a foreign institution. We flag both before quoting so the number does not move afterwards.

The assumption we correct most often

That the database output is the study. The search strategy and the rejections are the study; the range is just its conclusion.

What is never charged

  • Re-sending a copy of a filing we prepared for you
  • Time spent telling you that you do not need the engagement
  • The first call to the 24-hour helpline, where the scope is set

Get the quote

One call to our 24-hour helpline is usually enough to tell you whether this is a filing or a project, and what each would cost. The call is free, and we will say so if the answer is that you do not need us. One call now is worth more than a filing season of guessing.

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Checked and signed off for the 2025 and 2026 filing seasons by Udit Gupta, International Tax, Cross-Border Tax & Transfer Pricing Expert, Legal Quotient Consultants. This is general information rather than advice about your file — a short call is the way to get the second.

Corporate tax services, in practice

This is the page to read on corporate tax services. It takes TP benchmarking study in order — the test that decides who is affected, the returns and forms that follow from it, and a fee quoted in writing before anything starts.

The four phases of the work

  1. Send the documents as they are

    No tidying required — forward what you have and we tell you what is missing.

  2. Get a fixed quote in writing

    Priced from your actual documents before any work begins, not estimated after.

  3. Both countries prepared together

    One team builds the filings against each other so the relief lands exactly once.

  4. Review, then file

    You approve the finished work before we file it.

How TP benchmarking study price is handled here

Factor Legal Quotient Hourly billing model
Pricing A fixed fee, agreed in writing before work starts Hourly, billed as incurred
Experience 15+ years of cross-border work, 18,000+ clients Varies by file
Both sides of the border Prepared together by one team, so relief is claimed exactly once One country at a time, reconciled later
Who reviews it A named practitioner, published on the page Whoever the queue reaches
Where the work happens Our offices in India, the USA, Canada and the UAE Whichever single office you can travel to

Key terms behind this page, defined

Deemed disposition
A rule that treats property as sold at market value even though nothing was sold — on emigration, on death, or on a change of use. Tax arises without a cash event.
Unilateral relief
Relief for foreign tax given by domestic law where no treaty applies. It is usually narrower than treaty relief and is the fallback in a non-treaty corridor.
Place of effective management
The place where key management and commercial decisions are in substance made, which can make a foreign-incorporated company resident in another country.
Taxable Canadian property
The class of property whose disposition by a non-resident is taxable in Canada, including Canadian real property and certain shares.

The published fees closest to TP benchmarking study price

Database access and prior studies change the tier: a category with an existing, current comparable set moves faster than one where the search has to be run from scratch.

Corporate cross-border filing
$999in US dollars, fixed before work starts

Covers: Returns for companies with foreign subsidiaries, foreign income or foreign shareholders, and the schedules each of those triggers.

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Transfer pricing documentation
$2,500in US dollars, fixed before work starts

Covers: Benchmarking and documentation for related-party dealings, prepared to the standard the reviewing authority applies.

See this fee page
Payroll & mobility setup
$999in US dollars, fixed before work starts

Covers: Employer registration and withholding for staff on assignment, arranged before the first pay run rather than corrected after it.

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Why clients bring TP benchmarking study price to us

Residence is tested, not assumed

Where you are resident for treaty purposes is a question with a method. We work through it and write down the answer, with the facts it rests on.

A named reviewer on every file

Every page on this site and every file we deliver says which practitioner reviewed it — a person, not a team inbox.

The order of filing is planned, not improvised

Which return goes first decides whether relief can be claimed at all. That sequence is worked out before anything is submitted.

Every figure on a page is traceable

Where a rate or a threshold appears in our writing it names the tax year it belongs to. Where it could not be confirmed, the page describes the mechanism and quotes no number.

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Two of the firm’s advisers and the team in the open-plan office

How the work runs — quote first, then the work

  • Step 1: Hand over the paperwork in any state – Sorting it is our job. Send what exists and we identify what is missing from it.
  • Step 2: Priced before a single form is opened – The fee comes from the documents, agreed in writing, and stays where it was agreed.
  • Step 3: One position across every return – The same facts, filed consistently on each side, so nothing contradicts anything else.
  • Step 4: Filed after you have read it – The completed work reaches you before it reaches an authority.

Quoted up front, in writing.

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The rest of this practice

Each of these carries its own guide, pricing pointers and FAQ.

Services these clients use most

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Form RC4288 — taxpayer relief request The full guide to rc4288 taxpayer relief request, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Drop-shipping tax exposure Its own page: drop-shipping tax exposure — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
India ↔ Australia — DTAA Everything on India ↔ Australia — DTAA, at the same depth as this page.
UK VAT registration UK vat registration — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Equalisation levy on digital services The full guide to equalisation levy on digital services, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
RNOR status — the two-year window Its own page: RNOR status two year window — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Treaty relief on RRSP / 401(k) / IRA Everything on treaty relief RRSP 401k IRA, at the same depth as this page.

Who we bring this work to

Tax for defence contractors Everything on defence contractors tax, at the same depth as this page.
Tax for IT contractors It contractors tax — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Twitch & live streamers — your filing calendar The full guide to twitch & live streamers your filing calendar, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Professors & lecturers — relief you're probably missing Its own page: professors & lecturers relief you're probably missing — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Physicians & surgeons — relief you're probably missing Everything on physicians & surgeons relief you're probably missing, at the same depth as this page.
Tax for podcasters Podcasters tax — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Technology & SaaS cross-border tax The full guide to technology & saas cross border tax, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Crypto traders — what you owe in each country Its own page: crypto traders what you owe in each country — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Amazon FBA sellers — what you owe in each country Everything on amazon fba sellers what you owe in each country, at the same depth as this page.

Countries and corridors this work reaches

Poland tax for expats — country guide Everything on Poland tax for expats, at the same depth as this page.
Cayman Islands tax for expats — country guide Cayman islands tax for expats — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
South Africa tax for expats — country guide The full guide to South Africa tax for expats, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Ghana tax for expats — country guide Its own page: Ghana tax for expats — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Canada–United States tax corridor Everything on Canada United States tax, at the same depth as this page.
Colombia tax for expats — country guide Colombia tax for expats — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Taiwan tax for expats — country guide The full guide to Taiwan tax for expats, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Nigeria tax for expats — country guide Its own page: Nigeria tax for expats — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Latvia tax for expats — country guide Everything on latvia tax for expats, at the same depth as this page.

The people on your file

Named practitioners, each with the countries and the part of a cross-border file they carry, across India, the USA, Canada and the UAE. Every page on this site says who reviewed it, and the reviewer is one of these people rather than an unnamed team.

Udit Gupta, International tax, cross-border tax and transfer pricing: USA, Canada, India and UAE, Legal Quotient Consultants
Udit Gupta
Director, International tax, cross-border tax and transfer pricing: USA, Canada, India and UAE

CA (India), CA (Malaysia)

Reviews and signs off the practice's cross-border positions, and carries final responsibility for the treaty analysis on every file that leaves any of our offices.

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Abhinav Gupta, India international tax, cross-border tax and transfer pricing, Legal Quotient Consultants
Abhinav Gupta
Director, India international tax, cross-border tax and transfer pricing

CA (India)

Indian cross-border files: residents with income abroad, non-residents with income in India, and the treaty relief that ties the Indian return to the one filed in the other country.

Abhinav Gupta on LinkedIn

Raghav Gupta, UAE and India international tax, cross-border tax and transfer pricing, Legal Quotient Consultants
Raghav Gupta
Director, UAE and India international tax, cross-border tax and transfer pricing

FCA (India)

Files that run between the UAE and India: residence, the treaty position, and the benchmarking and documentation behind intercompany pricing.

Raghav Gupta on LinkedIn

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Cross-border tax case studies

Case study 1

Benchmarking study built from scratch for a subsidiary's first related-party service charge

A subsidiary began charging its foreign parent for services for the first time and had no benchmarking study supporting the rate. We prepared a functional analysis of the subsidiary's actual role, built a comparable-company set for the service category, and delivered a study supporting an arm's length charge the subsidiary could rely on for its current and future filings.

Case study 2

Existing study refreshed after several years of unchanged reliance

A group had relied on the same benchmarking study for several years without updating it, even though the underlying market conditions had shifted materially in that time. We reviewed whether the original functional analysis still held, refreshed the comparable-company data to current financial results, and delivered an updated study reflecting the current arm's length range.

Case study 3

Study challenged and successfully defended during a transfer-pricing review

A client's benchmarking study was queried during a review, with the reviewing officer questioning whether the comparable set genuinely matched the tested party's function. We revisited the functional analysis, strengthened the documentation explaining why the comparables were appropriate, and the study was accepted on review without requiring a revised position.

Case study 4

A Margin Defended With a Benchmarking Set That Fits the Facts

A comparables set is only as good as the screening behind it, and a rejected set takes the margin with it. The study selects the tested party first, screens on function rather than on industry code, and records why each comparable survived.

Read how this one runs
Case study 5

A Company That Needed a Resident on Its Board

Several jurisdictions require a locally resident director before a company can be registered or keep its filings current. The requirement is structural and is settled at incorporation rather than discovered at the first annual return.

Read how this one runs
Case study 6

Expanding Abroad — Branch or Subsidiary, Decided on the Numbers

The choice sets the tax on profits, the treatment of early losses, and what it costs to take money home later. The file models all three across the first years rather than deciding on the incorporation cost alone.

Read how this one runs
Case study 7

Treaty Rate Refused Because the Paperwork Was Missing

A reduced rate under a treaty is available only where the payer is satisfied the recipient is resident in the treaty country. The certificate and the withholding form are what make the rate available at source instead of recoverable a year later.

Read how this one runs
Case study 8

Withheld at the Statutory Rate When a Treaty Rate Applied

Where withholding has already gone out at the full domestic rate, the treaty rate is recovered rather than applied. The file establishes entitlement for each payment, then puts the documentation in place so the following year runs at the correct rate from the start.

Read how this one runs

All case studies — every published engagement in one place.

Delivery, coverage and how we work

Browse sideways: the pages below answer the neighbouring questions.

Where the work is delivered
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Core International & Cross-Border Tax Services

International Tax Planning & Advisory

Strategy and compliance for income, assets and families spread across borders.

Treaty residency & tie-breaker
FATCA reporting (Form 8938)
Foreign tax credit (Form 1116)
Multi-country filing calendar
Real estate holding structures
International tax planning
Pre-immigration tax planning
Family office structures
One coordinating team: filings on every side of the border are sequenced so treaty relief and foreign tax credits are claimed once — and in the right country.
U.S. & Cross-Border Tax Returns
Form 1040 from abroad
US state non-resident returns
FBAR (FinCEN 114) filing
Form 5472 — foreign-owned US corp
FIRPTA withholding (Form 8288)
US estate tax exposure
IRS streamlined foreign offshore
PFIC reporting (Form 8621)
Dual filers: U.S. citizens in Canada and Canadians with U.S. income run two parallel systems — we prepare both, in the right order, every year.
Expat & Emigration Tax
Departure tax leaving Canada
T1161 properties on emigration
Residency planning
Step-up in cost base on arrival
Split-year residency
Employment income under a treaty
Social security totalization
Returning to Canada after years abroad
The move year is its own project: the elections and valuations filed that year decide the next decade of both countries’ returns.
Non-Resident Canadian Tax
Section 216 rental return
NR4 & NR6 withholding
Section 217 pension return
Section 116 clearance certificate
Regulation 105 waiver
Non-resident employment income
Taxable Canadian property
Part XIII withholding review
Default withholding is 25% of gross: elective returns routinely turn over-withheld rent and pensions into refunds.
Transfer Pricing & BEPS
s.247 contemporaneous documentation
Functional & risk analysis
Benchmarking study
Intercompany agreements
Country-by-country report
BEPS & Pillar Two
Permanent establishment risk
TP audit defence file
Documentation prepared with the return is the cheapest insurance in international tax; reconstructing it during an audit is the most expensive.
Cross-Border Estates & Trusts
Cross-border wills
US estate tax for non-resident aliens
Terminal return & clearance certificate
Non-resident trusts (s.94)
T1141 & T1142 trust reporting
Inheriting property abroad
Graduated rate estates
Post-mortem planning & pipeline
Wills drafted for one country routinely misfire in the other — deemed disposition here, estate tax there, credits in between.
Cross-Border Corporate Tax
Entity selection across borders
Business profits & PE
Intercompany loans & thin cap
Paying dividends to a foreign parent
Global mobility & day tracking
Debt vs equity funding
Branch or subsidiary
Cross-border M&A due diligence
Expansion raises the same four questions every time — entity, PE, repatriation, payroll. We answer them before the tax authorities do.
India Tax for NRIs & Returning Residents
NRI residency day tests
NRE, NRO & FCNR accounts
TDS on property (s.195)
Lower or nil TDS certificate
Repatriating sale proceeds
Capital gains on Indian shares
India–Canada DTAA
ITR-2 for NRIs
The deduction is taken on the sale price, not the gain — which is why an NRI property sale strands cash unless the certificate is applied for before closing.
Canadian Tax with a Foreign Element
T1135 foreign property
T1134 foreign affiliates
Departure tax
Newcomer's first return
Returning to Canada
Split-year residency
US citizens in Canada
Canada–US corridor
Residency is decided on facts, not on a form — and the year you arrive or leave is the one where the largest amounts turn on the smallest details.
UAE Tax for Expats & Their Home Country
Expat tax in the UAE
Moving to the UAE
Moving back from the UAE
UAE property purchases
Retiring in the UAE
Canada–UAE corridor
India–UAE DTAA
US–UAE corridor
A zero-tax country is only half the answer — the question that decides the bill is whether the country you came from still treats you as resident.

Industries & Client Types We Serve Worldwide

Global E-commerce & Marketplaces
Technology & SaaS
Professional Services Firms
Cross-Border Real Estate
Importers, Exporters & Manufacturers
Athletes, Artists & Entertainers
Remote Workers & Digital Nomads
Investment Funds & Holding Companies
Global E-commerce & Marketplaces

Cross-border tax for sellers shipping worldwide: marketplace withholding, foreign registrations and inventory nexus handled before they become audits.

Marketplaces withhold, remit and report in their own right, so the tax position of a single sale is decided by where the stock sat, where the buyer was and which platform collected — not by where the company is registered. We reconcile the platform's own filings against the returns before either is submitted.

  • Foreign VAT / GST / sales tax registrations
  • Marketplace withholding reviews
  • Inventory nexus & PE analysis
  • Multi-currency books reconciled
Explore E-commerce & Marketplaces
Technology & SaaS
  • Cross-border revenue sourcing & withholding
  • IP structuring with real substance
  • Equity for cross-border teams
  • U.S. expansion: entity & PE setup
Explore Technology & SaaS
Importers, Exporters & Manufacturers
  • Transfer pricing documentation (s.247)
  • Customs value vs transfer price
  • Foreign affiliate reporting (T1134)
  • Country-by-country reporting
Explore Trade & Manufacturing
Athletes, Artists & Entertainers
  • Reg 105 & U.S. CWA agreements
  • Multi-state & country calendars
  • Touring income allocation
  • Royalty & image-rights withholding
Explore Athletes & Entertainers
Remote Workers & Digital Nomads
  • Residency analysis before moving
  • Employer payroll exposure
  • Totalization & social security
  • Foreign tax credits
Explore Remote Workers
Investment Funds & Holding Companies
  • Treaty access & PPT reviews
  • FAPI & surplus computations
  • Withholding-efficient routing
  • Governance & substance
Explore Funds & Holdcos

TP benchmarking study pricing — questions we are asked

What is included in the fee for tp benchmarking study?

A documented search: screening criteria, quantitative and qualitative filters, a manual rejection log with reasons, and the resulting range with the tested party's position in it.

What would make tp benchmarking study cost more than the standard tier?

How defensible the comparables have to be. A study intended for a filing and a study intended to survive an audit are different pieces of work.

Is the fee really fixed?

Yes, for the scope quoted. If the scope changes — another year appears, an entity turns up, a certificate becomes necessary — we re-quote before doing the work, so there is never an invoice you have not already agreed to.

How often does a benchmarking study need to be refreshed?

It depends on whether the underlying transaction and market conditions have materially changed, but a study is generally reviewed periodically rather than relied on indefinitely, since comparable-company data and the transaction itself can both drift from what an older study assumed.

Can one benchmarking study support related-party transactions in more than one country?

Sometimes, where the underlying transaction and the comparable set are genuinely applicable across the jurisdictions involved, but each country's own documentation requirements need to be checked, since a study built for one country's rules does not automatically satisfy another's.

What makes a benchmarking study defensible if it is ever challenged?

A clear functional analysis matching the tested party's actual role, a comparable set built from genuinely similar transactions, and a documented rationale for the method chosen are what make a study defensible — a study that skips the functional analysis and jumps straight to a comparable set is the kind that does not hold up under review.

Does a benchmarking study need updated financial data every year even if the transaction itself hasn't changed?

Generally yes, since the arm's length range a study supports is built from comparable companies' financial results for the period in question, and using stale financial data even for an unchanged transaction can understate or overstate the current arm's length range.

What is an advance pricing arrangement?

An agreement with a tax authority, in advance, on how a category of intercompany transactions will be priced for a set number of years. Unilateral arrangements bind one country; bilateral or multilateral ones bind both sides of the transaction and are what actually removes the risk of an adjustment in one country without relief in the other. They take real time and full disclosure, so they suit large recurring flows rather than one-off transactions. See our transfer pricing work.

What is OECD Pillar One?

The part of the international agreement that reallocates a share of taxing rights over the very largest and most profitable groups to the jurisdictions where their customers and users are, regardless of physical presence — plus a simplified approach to routine marketing and distribution returns. It is aimed at the digitalised economy problem that physical-presence rules could not reach, and its implementation is still moving, which is why we read the current instrument rather than the original blueprint. See BEPS and Pillar Two.

Tax terms explained
Tie-breaker ruleNewcomerFaceless assessmentDEMPET106Country-by-country reportJuridical double taxationSection 94 trustNon-discrimination articleResident contributorUpdated returnFixed place of businessCompliance calendarScope boundary Browse the full A–Z glossary

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