All you need to know about transfer pricing documentation.
Malaysia’s transfer pricing framework continues to evolve, with the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia applying increasing scrutiny to how multinational groups price, document and defend related‑party transactions. For businesses operating in Malaysia, transfer pricing has become a core tax risk area rather than a routine compliance exercise.
Across Asia, transfer pricing audits are becoming more frequent, more detailed and more analytically driven. Tax authorities are no longer limiting their reviews to whether documentation exists. Instead, they are interrogating whether transfer pricing outcomes genuinely align with commercial reality, operational substance and financial results over time.
As tariff wars intensify, government deficits balloon, and supply chains fragment, the OECD’s 15% global minimum tax has shifted from a technical compliance issue to a strategic imperative reshaping how and where multinational enterprises compete.