Financial Transparency Coalition

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 fooled by those numbers – simply look at the image below to see who really has access to CbCR. Oh, by the way, there’s nothing wrong with

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, marks the first time the European Commission has come together collectively in support of public CBCR, and was considered a major breakthrough by tax justice

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 (and other reports that Italy is seeking unpaid taxes from Google, as well). However, there was much discussion about

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 multinational corporations (MNCs), but because vital information from the new reporting effort won’t be made public, questions linger on what good it will do