About this learning event

This annual BEPS workshop will address current developments in transfer pricing, with a strong focus on practical application. It will offer an overview of key transfer pricing principles and methodologies, while focusing on the main practical challenges tax administrations face when applying them.

It will address how tax authorities can more effectively apply transfer pricing principles and methodologies during audits, what transfer pricing methods are available, and the differences in their practical application. Through practical case studies, group work, expert inputs, and peer exchange, it will also provide practical insights into the processes of concluding advance pricing agreements and will focus in part on the area of financial transactions in transfer pricing.

Transfer pricing cases often involve complex facts, limited information, different interpretations, and the need for close cooperation between auditors, transfer pricing specialists, and competent authorities. Building on the 2024 BEPS workshop, which introduced transfer pricing within the wider BEPS framework, and the 2025 workshop, which focused on BEPS Actions 8–10 and 13, this 2026 workshop will deepen the practical focus by examining how transfer pricing methods, APA techniques can be applied in concrete cases and financial transaction rules.

Participants will have the opportunity to:

• strengthen their understanding of the main transfer pricing methods and their application;
• work through practical transfer pricing cases and discuss common implementation challenges;
• improve understanding of advance pricing agreement process;
• explore transfer pricing issues related to financial transactions.

Who should attend

This workshop is designed for officials from ministries of finance and tax administrations who are specialists on BEPS; work with or have interest in transfer pricing issues; policy experts, tax auditors, international taxation and transfer pricing specialists; officials involved in APA and competent authority processes.

Faculty

• Silvia Karelová, Financial Directorate of the Slovak Republic
• Katarína Lafférsová, Financial Directorate of the Slovak Republic

Additional experts will be announced closer to the workshop starting date.

Practical information 

Travel, accommodation and hospitality costs for up to two selected participants from Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (up to three), Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Georgia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Türkiye, and Ukraine will be covered by the Ministry of Finance of the Netherlands, the Ministry of Finance of the Slovakia, and Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovenia.

Partners

This learning initiative is supported by: