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-based research and development employees — must be included in the pool of intangible development costs shared with the Cayman subsidiary under the CSA

The court found that IRC Section 482 is ambiguous as to whether stock-based compensation must be included in the cost pools of qualified cost-sharing arrangements

The court recognized that cost-sharing arrangements between commonly controlled entities are sui generis structures with no perfect uncontrolled comparables, and that Treasury may therefore use its regulatory authority to define what costs must be shared in order to achieve arm's-length results, even in the absence of direct market evidence

482-7 is subject to regulatory definition and that Treasury has broad authority to prescribe which categories of costs must be included in a shared development pool

PPC cannot assume that its own interpretation of the RAB methodology is the only reasonable one, and it must be prepared to defend the specific inputs and assumptions underlying its calculation against an IRS interpretation that may differ

Second, the core issue in Altera — whether SBC must be included in a CSA cost pool — is factually distinct from PPC's primary exposure areas, which involve cost-sharing ratios and the legacy IP royalty rate