02284cas a2200325 a 4500 AALejournalIMF023219 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 9798400219221 20.00 USD 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Beer, Sebastian. Keeping it Simple-Efficiency Costs of Fixed Margin Regimes in Transfer Pricing / Sebastian Beer, Sebastien Leduc, Jan Loeprick. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2022. 1 online resource (27 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Simplifying tax policy comes with costs and benefits. This paper explores simplification options for the taxation of MNEs, an area where administrative and compliance costs of the current rules are large. Simplified approaches seek to reduce these costs by relying on an approximation of the true tax base, potentially distorting resource allocation. We examine the efficiency cost of transfer pricing simplification theoretically and empirically. Using a sample of 300,000 firms located in 22 countries, we estimate that common transfer pricing practices reduce efficiency between 0.25 and 2.2 percent of total factor productivity across sectors. Focusing on the manufacturing sector, we then observe that simplification more than doubles sectoral inefficiency on average. However, large differences exist, with moderate efficiency costs in several sectors. Mode of access: Internet Efficiency Costs imf Modelling Transfer Pricing Benchmarking imf Taxation of Multinational Enterprises imf Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue imf Transfer Pricing Simplification imf Leduc, Sebastien. Loeprick, Jan. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2022/193 Full text available on IMF https://elibrary.imf.org/openurl?genre=journal&issn=1018-5941&volume=2022&issue=193 IMF e-Library