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The promise

Transfer pricing — local file 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

The local file for one entity: functional analysis, method selection with the alternatives explained, comparables with the search documented, and the results tested against the range.

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Three tiers

TierFixed feeWhat it covers
Standardfrom $2,500Where the facts are settled and the documents are complete, this is the tier. It covers Transfer pricing documentation for a single year.
Complexfrom $2,500An information return, a certificate application or a second jurisdiction in the same engagement.
Multi-year or projectquoted on scopeProject work — unfiled years, a disclosure, a group of entities — priced on the scope and agreed in advance.

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: The number of transaction types. Goods, services, royalties and financing are four analyses rather than one, and each needs its own method and its own comparables.

  • Whether a foreign authority has to issue something before we can file
  • 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
  • The number of tax years in scope, because a catch-up package is priced per year

What adds cost

Two things, mostly: reconstruction and waiting. Reconstruction is rebuilding a year from bank statements because the records are gone; waiting is a certificate or a slip that has to come from a tax authority or a foreign institution before we can file. We tell you which of the two is in play at the quote stage rather than at the invoice stage.

The assumption we correct most often

That a report is a report. A file that cannot be reconciled to the accounts is worse than a short one that can, and the rejection log is what an auditor actually reads.

What is never charged

  • Answering a question about the scope we already quoted
  • Re-sending a copy of a filing we prepared for you
  • The first call to the 24-hour helpline, where the scope is set

Get the quote

Start with the dates. Arrival, departure, transaction, notice — whichever applies. Once those are fixed, the filing set and the fee follow quickly, and you will know both before committing to anything. One call now is worth more than a filing season of guessing.

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Reviewed for the 2025 and 2026 filing seasons by Udit Gupta, Cross-Border Tax 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

Readers arrive here searching for corporate tax services, and transfer pricing is what the page is about. Below: who it catches, what has to be filed, and what it costs — quoted in writing, before anything is done.

From first contact to filed return

  1. Upload the file as it stands

    A secure link arrives after the first call. Incomplete is fine; that is what the review is for.

  2. The number is settled up front

    Priced from your own documents and confirmed in writing before any preparation begins.

  3. Both returns on one desk

    One engagement covers every country the file touches, reconciled line against line.

  4. Your approval, then the filing

    The return is yours to check first. We file once you say so.

The difference a dedicated cross-border team makes

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

The vocabulary this page leans on

Importer of record
The party legally responsible for an import, and therefore the party that can recover the import tax. Naming the wrong one strands the recovery.
Grantor trust
A trust whose income is taxed to the settlor rather than to the trust or beneficiaries, because of powers or interests the settlor retained.
Dependent agent
A person who habitually concludes contracts, or plays the principal role leading to them, on behalf of a foreign enterprise — creating a taxable presence without premises.
Section 116 clearance
The certificate the CRA issues on a non-resident's disposition of taxable Canadian property, without which the purchaser holds back part of the price.

The published fees closest to transfer pricing — local file price

Every card links a published fee with its scope spelled out — quoted in writing from your documents up front.

Corporate cross-border filing

$999fixed, before work starts

Covers: Company filings where income, ownership or operations cross a border, with the related-party disclosures that come with them.

See this fee page

Transfer pricing documentation

$2,500fixed, before work starts

Covers: Local file, master file and benchmarking for groups trading across borders, documented to the standard the authority expects.

See this fee page

Payroll & mobility setup

$999fixed, before work starts

Covers: What an employer owes when an employee works in another country: the registrations, the withholding and the reporting that follow.

See this fee page

Why clients bring transfer pricing — local file price to us

We say early if it is not our work

If a file needs something this practice does not do, you hear that at the start rather than after a bill.

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.

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.

Both sides prepared together

Two returns built against each other by one team, so relief is claimed exactly once and nothing falls between the two systems.

The team reviewing a file together at a desk

From first call to filed return

Step 1

Initial call

A first call to map the obligations across every country involved

Step 2

Scope and fee

A single fixed fee covering the whole set, agreed before we begin

Step 3

Preparation and review

Preparation in the order that makes the relief usable, with a reviewer's sign-off

Step 4

Filing and payment

You approve the finished work, and we file it

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From first document to filed return

  • Step 1: Documents first, questions second – We read the file before asking anything, so the questions we do ask are the ones that matter.
  • Step 2: A quote you can hold us to – Fixed in writing against a defined scope. No hourly meter, and no revision after the fact.
  • Step 3: The order of filing decided deliberately – Which return goes first can decide whether relief is available at all. That is planned, not discovered.
  • Step 4: Nothing filed without your sign-off – You see the completed work, ask what you need to, and approve it before submission.

Quoted up front, in writing.

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Clients who arrive with this exact page

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Countries and corridors this work reaches

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Cyprus tax for expats — country guide Cyprus tax for expats — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
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The people on your file

Five named practitioners, each with the part of a cross-border file they carry. Every page on this site says who reviewed it, and the reviewer is one of these people rather than an unnamed team.

Udit Gupta

Udit Gupta

Cross-Border Tax Expert

CA (ICAI), In-Depth Tax Trained

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

Abhinav Gupta

Abhinav Gupta

Canada Tax / International Tax

Canada Tax, International Tax, Cross-Border Tax, Transfer Pricing

Canadian returns with foreign income, non-resident filings, and the transfer-pricing documentation that runs alongside intercompany work.

Raghav Gupta

Raghav Gupta

International Tax

International Tax, Transfer Pricing Specialist

Benchmarking, method selection and the local-file and master-file sets that support a group's pricing policy under examination.

Anmol Mittal

Anmol Mittal

Canada and US tax

CPA Canada, CPA USA, CA (ICAI)

Files that have to be right on both sides of the border at once — dual filings, streamlined catch-ups, and the foreign tax credit reconciliation between them.

Vinayak Indolia

Vinayak Indolia

CFO advisory

CPA, CA. Fractional CFO and Senior Advisory Specialist

Groups that need the tax position and the finance function to agree: structure reviews, intercompany policy, and the reporting a board can act on.

Meet the whole team

Cross-border situations we are engaged for

Case study 1

Indian Transfer Pricing Certification With a Hard Deadline

An Indian entity with international related-party transactions needs an accountant's report filed by a date of its own, ahead of the return. The work is reconciling the transactions to the books first, because the report is only as defensible as that reconciliation.

Read how this one runs
Case study 2

Branch or Subsidiary, Decided Before Incorporation

The choice changes where profits are taxed, what has to be filed, and whether losses in the early years are usable. It is difficult to reverse once trading has begun, so it is modelled first.

Read how this one runs
Case study 3

One Salesperson Abroad, and a Corporate Filing Obligation

A single employee with authority to conclude contracts can create a taxable presence for the whole company. The review tests what the person actually does against the treaty article, and where a presence exists, works out what profit is attributable to it.

Read how this one runs
Case study 4

Three Countries in One File and Two Treaties That Disagree

Income sourced in one country, paid to a resident of a second, held through an entity in a third: three bilateral treaties, no three-way rule. The analysis works out which pair governs each flow, and whether the middle entity is entitled to anything at all.

Read how this one runs
Case study 5

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 6

A Group File That Had to Describe the Whole Group

The master file is a picture of the business rather than of one company, and it has to agree with what each local file says. Assembling it surfaces inconsistencies between entities that nobody had compared.

Read how this one runs
Case study 7

A Canadian Employer With Staff in the United States

Employing someone in the US creates federal and state obligations that begin with registration, not with the first return. Which states are engaged is decided by where the work happens rather than where the company is.

Read how this one runs
Case study 8

An Estate Using Its Graduated Rates in Time

The favourable rate treatment an estate can access is time-limited and conditional, and it is lost by administration rather than by decision. The file identifies the window and the filings that keep it open.

Read how this one runs

All case studies — every published engagement in one place.

Where we deliver this work

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

Where the work is delivered

More coverage detail

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

  • 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

Performance income is taxed where earned — Regulation 105 in Canada, withholding agreements in the U.S. — with special treaty articles overriding the usual rules.

Performance income is taxed where the performance happens, and the deduction is usually taken at source on the gross fee before expenses. Recovering the difference is a filing exercise in the other country, and it only works if the tour, the residency and the withholding certificates were documented while the work was being done.

  • 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

Transfer pricing — local file pricing — questions we are asked

What is included in the fee for transfer pricing — local file?

The local file for one entity: functional analysis, method selection with the alternatives explained, comparables with the search documented, and the results tested against the range.

What would make transfer pricing — local file cost more than the standard tier?

The number of transaction types. Goods, services, royalties and financing are four analyses rather than one, and each needs its own method and its own comparables.

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.

What is transfer pricing?

The meaning of transfer pricing is narrow and specific: it is how related companies in a group price what they sell each other — goods, services, financing, the use of intellectual property. Tax law requires those prices to be what independent parties would have agreed, the arm's length principle, so profit is not simply moved to a lower-taxed country. Canada tests it under s.247, the US under s.482, India under s.92, and each expects documentation prepared contemporaneously. See transfer pricing documentation.

What is a transfer pricing policy, and is it the same as documentation?

No. The policy is the forward-looking statement of how your intercompany prices are set — which method for which transaction, which comparables, what happens when margins drift. The documentation is the backward-looking evidence that the policy was applied and produced an arm's length result for that year. Authorities read both, and a policy that the intercompany invoices do not actually follow is worse than none, because it establishes what you knew you should have done. See do you need documentation.

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

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