Malaysia’s New Transfer Pricing Guidelines on Intra-Group Loans

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Malaysia’s New Transfer Pricing Guidelines on Intra-Group Loans
What companies need to know
29 October 2026

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Are your intra-group loans ready for the IRBM’s new transfer pricing guidelines?

On 30 July 2026, the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia (IRBM) released the Malaysia Transfer Pricing Guidelines on Controlled Financial Transactions: Intra-Group Loans. The guidance goes well beyond interest rate benchmarking. Taxpayers must now first show that a purported loan is genuinely debt, and then support its pricing with robust credit and comparability analysis. Join Transfer Pricing Solutions for a practical, insight driven webinar that walks through what the new guidelines require, where the audit risks lie, and what Malaysian taxpayers and their parent groups should be doing now to review their intra-group financing. Intra-group financing is no longer a routine interest rate exercise. With the IRBM’s stronger focus on substance, debt versus equity characterisation, creditworthiness and documentation, both the structure and the pricing of intra-group loans must now withstand detailed scrutiny. Groups that review their arrangements early will be best placed to minimise audit risk and maintain tax certainty.

IN THIS WEBINAR PARTICIPANTS WILL:

  • Understand the structure and key requirements of the IRBM’s new guidelines on intra-group loans, and how they build on the Malaysia Transfer Pricing Guidelines 2024.
  • Be able to assess whether a purported loan is genuinely debt in substance and understand the risk of recharacterization as equity.
  • Gain a clear view of how the IRBM expects creditworthiness to be assessed, including credit ratings and the effect of implicit group support.
  • Understand the pricing approaches available, including the CUP method, the cost of funds method and the new simplified method for qualifying taxpayers.
  • Walk away with a practical checklist of documentation and compliance actions to be ready for an IRBM review. 

THE DETAILS

DATE

29 October 2026

TIME

2:00 - 3.00pm (Singapore time)

COST

Free

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SPEAKER / PANELIST

ADRIANA CALDERON

Ms Adriana Calderon Director, Asia and Malaysia - Transfer Pricing Solutions Asia Accredited Tax Advisor (Income Tax)  

Adriana is the co-founder of Transfer Pricing Solutions Asia. She has extensive international experience with Big Four and mid-tier firms advising multinational companies in the areas of corporate and international taxation across South America, the US, Australia and the Asia Pacific Region.

As a Transfer Pricing practitioner, Adriana has advised companies in the Asia Pacific Region across various industries and in a wide range of projects associated with planning, compliance and dispute resolutions with tax authorities. She has also participated in specialised projects involving pricing of financial transactions, business restructures and negotiation of APAs. Most recently, she has participated in transfer pricing planning projects to implement BEPS’s Action Plan and country-by-country reporting. Adriana also enjoys teaching and is a regular speaker and facilitator of Transfer Pricing seminars and workshops.

She is a transfer pricing trainer for the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants and Singapore Institute of Accredited Tax Professionals. Adriana has also facilitated training sessions for CFOs, tax teams of large companies and consultancies, and tax executives at the Australian Taxation Office. In addition, Adriana is also SCTP’s representative for the TP Roundtables organised by the tax authority.  




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