The Tax Office has won a challenge by PepsiCo over assessments that it owed royalty taxes for deals it orchestrated between Singapore and Australian subsidiaries for beverage concentrate and branding rights.
US-based Pepsi challenged an assessment by the Commissioner of Taxation that said the beverages giant owed millions in royalty withholding tax and diverted profits tax over its deals with then-named Schweppes Australia, which changed its named to Asahi Beverages, for the 2018 and 2019 financial years.
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