This is something I did not expect, from Transfer Pricing Weekly:   The Big 4 railed against TJN’s approach to transfer pricing in the Lords this afternoon, but maybe no-one was listening.

Transfer Pricing Week is not, maybe, everyone’s favourite magazine but there’s room for most of us in this world, and I just noticed this (and it’s a screen shot by the way, deliberately):   So, you can vote for the Tax Justice Network or the Big 4. What’s it going to be? Vote here.

As many will know, the OECD is consulting on the issue of multinational corporation tax avoidance (or Base Erosion and Profit Shifting – BEPS – as they call it). This is in advance of the June G8 meeting. The OECD asked for comments from civil society comment at ridiculously short notice. The questions they asked and the answers
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From TheRules.Org You can quibble with a number or two but it will never change the conclusion: we need to change the rules.

The following was written by friend and long term collaborator in tax campaigning on international development issues Alex Cobham and was published on the blog of the Center for Global Development,  for whom he works. I thought it well worth sharing, and do so with permission: For developing countries, the most important part of last
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Fifty eight NGOs and campaigning organisations, of which the Tax Justice Network is one, have issued a joint statement on the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting project today. The report is entitled ‘No more shifty business‘ (for which I am entirely to blame, along with some of the drafting). As the combined NGOs are saying: The new briefing paper, No more shifty business, calls on
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Rumour reaches me that Pascal St Amans of the OECD when speaking at the pro-tax haven and anti-corporation tax Oxford Centre for Business Taxation yesterday confirmed that there was no prospect of the OECD changing the rules of international taxation to replace the utterly discredited arm's length transfer pricing rules that have permitted so much
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It has been reported for a while that the long running dispute between India and Vodafone may be drawing to a close, with a substantial settlement (if not the sum originally demanded) in the offing. And now the FT reports the next major Indian tax case: The Indian subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell has said it plans
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Reuters has reported this morning that: U.S.-based global companies are increasingly shifting profits into tax havens like Bermuda and Switzerland, a US government report said, a finding likely to fuel debate over the taxes corporations pay and their flexibility in locating profits. The Congressional Research Service analyzed profit data from multinational companiesand compared reported profits and
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