Swetha Rajagopalan

Executive summary

Swetha Rajagopalan is a Transfer Pricing Director with BDO in Melbourne. She is a client driven and enthusiastic professional with over 17 years of transfer pricing experience in Asia and Australia.

Her experience covers a variety of areas such as planning and restructuring, compliance, developing transfer pricing policies, and controversy/dispute resolution across a wide variety of industries.

Her background in economics helps her consider transfer pricing issues from an analytical perspective, which informs her practical and commercial solutions to clients. Swetha is passionate about developing long term relationships with clients.

Expertise

• Transfer pricing planning and structuring advice for Australian outbound businesses across industries such as consumer products, technology, electronics, food and beverage
• Advising corporates in managing opportunities and tax efficiencies through appropriately assessing and pricing key value drivers within a business
• Establishing transfer pricing policies for small to medium businesses and corporations
• Transfer pricing documentation preparation for corporates
• Driving compliance obligations for businesses and corporations that are Significant Global entities i.e. part of a Group that has consolidated revenue of over A$1 billion.

Experience

Australian outbound business, manufacturer and distributor

• Identified opportunities and tax efficiencies by appropriately assessing and pricing key value drivers within the business
• Designed and developed the Group’s transfer pricing policy
• Developed an appropriate transfer pricing operating model for their European operations following a business restructure
• Managed compliance obligations including transfer pricing documentation for the Group across multiple jurisdictions.

Technology manufacturer and distributor of electronic products

• Designed and developed the Group’s transfer pricing policy
• Managed compliance obligations including transfer pricing documentation
• Assisted with tax authority interaction
• Assisted with Significant Global entity compliance obligations for the Australian entity.

Australian based food and agribusiness producer

• Designed and developed transfer pricing policy for the Group as part of establishing new operations in an overseas jurisdiction
• Assisted the Group in identifying technically robust mechanisms to repatriate excess cash back to Australia and prepared supporting documentation
• Managed Group compliance obligations including preparation of transfer pricing documentation.

Australian peer-to-peer digital platform

• Identified opportunities and tax efficiencies by appropriately assessing and pricing key value drivers within the business
• Designed the most suitable transfer pricing operating model that supports the Group’s future international expansion plans
• Assisted with transfer pricing compliance obligations of the Group across various jurisdictions.

Qualifications and affiliations

• Master of Arts (Economics) (Gold Medal)
• Bachelor of Arts (Economics) (Honours)
• Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment, Financial Services Institute of Australia.