Salim Rahim

Practice Areas

Salim Rahim is the chair of the Firm's North America Tax Practice Group. He has extensive experience in transfer pricing matters, including transfer pricing planning, compliance, and dispute resolution. He has represented clients in all administrative phases of a controversy. Salim has also represented companies in various alternative dispute resolution forums, particularly the Advance Pricing & Mutual Agreement Program.

Salim advises clients on matters involving examination, appeals, advance pricing agreements, and MAPs. In particular, his practice involves negotiating and facilitating advance pricing agreements for US and foreign-based multinational companies in the software, e-commerce, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and automobiles, industries. Salim also advises companies on global supply chain restructuring projects.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association

Publications

Author, "The IRS's Transfer Pricing Roadmap: A Step Towards Putting the Horse Before the Cart," BNA Tax Management, Transfer Pricing Report, March 2014

Author, "The New U.S. Services Rules: Stewardship in the Disjunctive," BNA Tax Management, Transfer Pricing Report, August 2009

Author, "Cost Sharing Arrangements are Less Attractive under New Regulations", Journal of International Taxation, April 2009

Author, "IRS Issues Long-Awaited Temporary Regulations on Cost-Sharing Arrangements," INTERTAX Volume 37, January 2009

Author, "Proposed Cost Sharing Regulations Introduce "New" Standards," Journal of International Taxation, December 2005

Author, "The IRS Cost Sharing Proposal: Throwing Some Logs on the Fire," BNA Tax

Management, Transfer Pricing Report, 14 September 2005