Australia has become the first country in the world to require full public country-by-country reporting. Country-by-country reporting for multinational companies shows how those companies might
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Large company accounts are works of fiction
I have this morning posted this video on YouTube, addressing an issue of accounting and transparency that matters to me. I think the format for
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Prem Sikka reminds David Cameron of his commitments on country-by-country reporting
This exchange took place in the House of Lords yesterday: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con) One of the best things we can do for
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HMRC now know how much international tax they’re not being paid
The Guardian reports this morning that: US multinationals underpaid £5.6bn in tax in the UK last year, HM Revenue & Customs believes, according to a
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The problem of taxing wealth will have to be tackled locally, not globally
The EU Tax Observatory has a new report on tax evasion out this morning. Or, to be precise, they have a new report on tax
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Country-by-country reporting to go public in Australia. Will the world now follow in its path?
I wrote the first version of country-by-country reporting for multinational corporations that are public interest entities in 2003. That can be found here. Now Australia
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Country-by-country reporting is beating transfer mispricing, as I always said it would
As Accountancy Age has reported: A 49% uptick in the amount of extra tax collected from investigations into large corporates shifting profits overseas is an
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Political economy, tax and real world change with Andrew Baker, John Christensen and Richard Murphy
With permission from both Professor Andrew Baker of Sheffield University politics department and my old friend and colleague John Christensen, I provide this link to
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Congratulations to the OECD on a job well done – and can we now move on to the next goals for tax justice?
I have sent the letter that follows to Pascal St Amans, head of tax at the OECD, this morning. The signatories were all involved in
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