Tracker one
Information tracker
Stores required, obtained and managed information in one place. It is the least glamorous part of the platform and the one that saves the most time, because the single biggest cost in transfer pricing is asking the same person the same question for the fourth year running.
Asked once. Reused everywhere.
A request goes out with a named owner and a due date. The answer comes back and is stored against the transaction it relates to, not against the email thread it arrived in.
From there it feeds the functional analysis, the comparability criteria in the benchmarking study, the scope clause of the intercompany agreement and the relevant section of the Local File. One answer, four destinations.
Open requests
Illustrative
Requests with owners
Every request has a person and a date attached, so chasing is a list rather than a memory exercise.
Stored against the transaction
Information is filed against the controlled transaction it supports, which is how it gets reused instead of re-requested.
An audit trail by default
When a tax authority asks where a number came from, the answer is a record rather than a reconstruction.
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