TP Week, originally launched as Transfer Pricing Week, was a London-based specialist news publication covering international transfer pricing policy and practice. Launched in 2007 as a sister title to International Tax Review, it served tax directors, transfer pricing advisers, government officials and scholars with weekly news, analysis and market surveys focused on one of the most contentious areas of corporate taxation. The publication ran for twelve years before being wound up in August 2019, when its coverage was merged into International Tax Review as part of a single combined service.
Origins and launch
TP Week was launched in 2007 by Euromoney Institutional Investor's Legal Media Group as a dedicated outlet for transfer pricing — the pricing of transactions between related entities of multinational groups, and a central battleground in international tax policy. The launch reflected the growing importance of transfer pricing to corporate tax departments: documentation requirements were tightening, revenue authorities were becoming more assertive, and disputes over profit allocation were multiplying. The publication set out to track these developments with a frequency and specialisation that a general tax magazine could not match.
Editorial focus
The publication's coverage centred on transfer pricing legislation, regulation and disputes worldwide. It reported on advance pricing agreements, country-by-country reporting, the arm's length principle, transfer pricing audits and penalties, and the evolving guidance of the OECD's Working Party No. 6. It also followed the controversies where transfer pricing intersected with wider tax politics, including EU state aid investigations into member-state tax rulings and the taxation of the digital economy. Its reporting was practical rather than theoretical, aimed at professionals managing transfer pricing risk inside companies and advising them from outside. Regular features examined documentation requirements, dispute resolution mechanisms and the enforcement posture of revenue authorities across the major economies.
The weekly news briefs
TP Week's signature product was its weekly news briefs, a digest of the most significant transfer pricing developments from the preceding days. Typical editions covered US Treasury and IRS regulatory moves, OECD consultations, European court decisions, and enforcement actions by national tax administrations — from Czech transfer pricing inspections to Australian fast-tracking of large corporate tax cases. The briefs combined short reported items with quotes from advisers and practitioners, giving readers a rapid overview of a fast-moving field. The format made TP Week a habitual read for specialists who needed to stay current across multiple jurisdictions.
Surveys and market research
The publication conducted surveys of its readership to take the temperature of the transfer pricing market. Early surveys polled tax directors and transfer pricing directors at major financial institutions and industrial companies on the issues dominating their workloads, finding transfer pricing emerging as the single most critical tax concern for international banks and a growing burden across industry. Later polls asked readers to vote on the leading forces in global transfer pricing — a week-long poll of around 700 readers identified organisations such as the OECD and PwC, political figures including India's finance minister, and campaign groups such as ActionAid among the most influential actors shaping the field.
Coverage of the BEPS decade
TP Week's twelve-year run coincided almost exactly with the rise and implementation of the OECD's Base Erosion and Profit Shifting project. The publication tracked the BEPS measures from consultation through to domestic implementation, reporting on the concerns of taxpayers, advisers, transparency advocates and the OECD itself. It interviewed Pascal Saint-Amans, head of the OECD's Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, covered the project on intangibles, and followed the debates over digital services taxes, formulary apportionment and the future of the arm's length principle. When TP Week marked its tenth anniversary in 2017, it published a retrospective of the decade's defining transfer pricing stories — covering landmark disputes, regulatory shifts and the Trump administration's tax policies — from the early scarcity of transfer pricing news to the era in which large taxpayers regularly made mainstream headlines over their tax bills.
Events: the Global Transfer Pricing Forum
Alongside International Tax Review, TP Week was associated with the annual Global Transfer Pricing Forum, a conference bringing together taxpayers, advisers and officials. Editions held in New York and Europe featured keynote addresses from OECD officials, panels on supply chain restructuring, APA programmes, industry-specific transfer pricing issues and controversy management, and the popular "Ask the Authorities" session allowing delegates to put anonymous technical questions to revenue authority representatives. The 2014 edition, the forum's thirteenth, was held at the Crowne Plaza in Times Square, New York, in association with Deloitte, with Pascal Saint-Amans of the OECD delivering the keynote on the BEPS project. The forum became one of the principal meeting points for the global transfer pricing community.
Correspondent network
As its coverage expanded, TP Week sought to build a network of writers and correspondents around the world, inviting transfer pricing specialists — including in-house practitioners — to contribute experiences, opinions and tips on local regulatory changes. The call for correspondents reflected the publication's ambition to cover transfer pricing developments at the national level across disciplines and industries, supplementing its London-based editorial team with on-the-ground expertise in key markets.
Editorial leadership
TP Week was edited from London within Euromoney's Legal Media Group. Bob Reynolds served as editor of the publication during its independent years, commissioning and overseeing its weekly output and survey work, and readers could contact the editorial desk at tpweek@euromoneyplc.com. The editorial operation worked closely with the team at International Tax Review, sharing subject expertise and, in the publication's later years, increasingly sharing a platform as the two titles' digital offerings converged.
Ownership and the Euromoney connection
Throughout its life TP Week was owned by Euromoney Institutional Investor, the London-listed financial publishing group, and operated as part of the company's Legal Media Group alongside International Tax Review. The Euromoney ownership gave the title access to the group's subscription, events and conferences infrastructure, and its email addresses and commercial operations ran through Euromoney's systems. The publication was a business-to-business subscription product aimed at the professional tax market.
Closure and merger into International Tax Review
In August 2019 TP Week was wound up as a standalone publication and merged into International Tax Review. ITR announced that it now incorporated the former standalone publication into a single service, catering to subscribers in in-house tax teams, advisory firms and governmental bodies across direct tax, indirect tax and transfer pricing. The consolidation reflected the convergence of the two titles' audiences and the commercial logic of a unified subscription offering, removing the need for readers to maintain separate subscriptions for general tax and transfer pricing coverage. TP Week's archive and its transfer pricing coverage continue within the ITR platform, and the Global Transfer Pricing Forum continues under the ITR brand.
Legacy
During its twelve years of independent publication, TP Week documented the transformation of transfer pricing from a technical backwater into one of the most politically charged areas of international taxation. Its surveys captured the anxieties of tax directors as documentation regimes multiplied; its polls mapped the shifting balance of influence among international organisations, governments, business and civil society; and its weekly briefs provided a contemporaneous record of the BEPS era's key regulatory moments. For historians of international tax policy, the TP Week archive remains a detailed chronicle of how the transfer pricing world changed between 2007 and 2019.
