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Setting The Record Straight on GE’s Taxes
By Allan Sloan, Fortune, and Jeff Gerth, ProPublicaThere’s a heated debate over General Electric’s taxes in places ranging from the front page of the New York Times to the blogosphere to, of all...
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We Need Greater Transparency Over Tax Payments
A complaint over tax payments by a Glencore subsidiary could prompt the Zambian government to undertake an audit of all mining companies to assess how much tax they oweBreadbreaker/Flickr*The contrast...
View ArticleJeffrey Sachs Really Seems to Be Getting It Now
Recently we wrote a blog, entitled “Jeffrey Sachs joins the tax justice movement, sort of,” after he wrote some superb (but incomplete) things in the Financial Times about the race to the bottom on...
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Rich Countries Should Listen to the Developing World on Tax Co-operation
Stefan de Vries/Flickr*Rarely have developing countries been more vocal and united on a question of international taxation. The vexed question of the status of the arcane-sounding “Committee of Experts...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament Makes Clear It Wants Full Country-by-Country Reporting
The Monetary Affairs Committee of the EU Parliament has sent the following letter to the European Commission:Mr Michel Barnier Commissioner for Internal Market and Services European Commission Rue de...
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Letter from America: Group-Think, Expert Communities and the Pariahs of...
Mark H. Anbinder/Flickr*Developing countries should have a voice in the discussion on international taxation, writes David McNair of Christian AidSitting in New York’s Harvard Club surrounded by tax...
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Real Patriots Pay Taxes
“Real patriots pay their fair share of taxes. They don’t run out on the bill,” write Scott Klinger and Holly SklarNick Ares/Flickr*Some of our nation’s biggest corporations are planning a tax holiday...
View ArticleGovernments Concerned that Some Corporations Unfairly Claim Losses to Avoid...
OECDPARIS – Due to the recent financial and economic crisis, global corporate losses have increased significantly. Numbers at stake are vast, with loss carry-forwards as high as 25% of GDP in some...
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Memo to the Extractive Industries: Tell Us What You’re Doing in Secrecy...
PWYP NorwayAs The Guardian reports this morning:More than a third of the subsidiaries owned by major energy and mining companies including Shell, BP and Glencore are based in “secrecy jurisdictions”...
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2011 Annual Task Force Conference Preview: Country-by-Country Reporting: The...
This post is part of our series from speakers at the Task Force’s 2011 annual conference, taking place in Paris October 6-7. For more information on the conference and to view live webcasts of the...
View ArticleThe politics of country by country reporting
Since the OECD approved a decent country-by-country reporting standard, the lobbying to undermine it in practice has really kicked on. Here’s an update on some of the politics of country-by-country,...
View ArticleWhen the digital age prevents you from submitting a Letter to the Editor
Over the past few years, there’s been a great deal of movement on the issue of country by country reporting (CBCR) for multinational corporations (MNCs). The G20 and OECD have developed new reporting...
View ArticleAs the OECD finalizes BEPS, questions linger on who will have access to the...
PRESS RELEASE The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released its Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project outcomes in an effort to cut down on tax avoidance by...
View ArticleA need to know basis, and the public really needs to know
It’s been a busy week for the issues of tax and transparency in the European Union. It started with a bombshell announcement that Google would pay about $185 million in back taxes to the UK government...
View ArticleEuropean Commission’s public CBCR proposal leaked to press
Last week, a draft of the European Commission’s proposal to address country-by-country reporting (CBCR) was leaked to the press. The official proposal, scheduled to be released publicly on April 12th,...
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Developing countries’ access to CbCR: Guess who’s (not) coming to OECD dinner
The OECD has just made available the list of activated relationships to automatically exchange country-by-country reports between countries. They use big figures like 700 relationships, but don’t get...
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