Australia’s Renewed Push on Coca-Cola: Transfer Pricing Report

Hello and welcome to the Transfer Pricing Report. I’m Caleb Harshberger, and this week we saw Australia chugging along with its next embedded-royalties dispute after a judge said it could alter its case against Coca-Cola in light of its recent loss to PepsiCo in the courts. Elsewhere in the Pacific, a second nation dips its toe in the Amount B club.

Coca-Cola’s lawyers called it “dubious.”

The judge said it’s “a whole new case.”

But on Tuesday, Federal Court Justice Lisa Hespe agreed to let the ATO argue new grounds in its dispute with Coke, my colleague Deborah Nesbitt reported ...