September 26th, 2015
PRESS RELEASE By failing to take concrete action on illicit financial flows and tax dodging in Addis Ababa, questions remain on how domestic resources will be raised Without a globally inclusive standard setting body, developing countries have an uphill battle to realize needed revenues to fund development goals
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September 21st, 2015
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 requirements as part of their Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) initiative, and the European Parliament has gone even further, calling for
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September 17th, 2015
The governments of G8 and G20 countries gave the OECD a global mandate to deliver country-by-country reporting, as a major tool to limit multinational corporate tax abuse, and with particular emphasis on the benefits for developing countries. New evidence shows that – even before its implementation – the OECD standard is likely to worsen existing inequalities in
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September 16th, 2015
Press Release Transparency International is calling on European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to publicly support legislation that would allow citizens to scrutinise the corporate taxes paid by multinational companies to governments. President Juncker will appear tomorrow in front of a special tax committee at the European Parliament to defend the Commission’s track record on tackling
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