Veritas Software Corp. v. Commissioner (US case 133 TC 14): The U.S. Tax Court has held that the IRS’s $1.675bn adjustment to a cost sharing buy-in payment received by Veritas Software Corp. from an Irish affiliate was “arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable”.
The tax court also confirmed that Veritas’ use of the comparable uncontrolled transactions method (albeit with some adjustments imposed by the court) was the best way to calculate transfer pricing on the buy-in payment.