I couldn’t help but note these adjacent comments in an FT email this morning: Reaching for the Starbucks Global coffee chain Starbucks reported one of
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The EU Parliament votes for public country-by-country reporting
This press release wasa put out by several NGOs campaigning for country-by-country reporting an hour or so ago: Today, the European Parliament voted in favour
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The EU’s banks do seem to be shifting profits for tax
A new report by me analysing the result of EU bank’s country-by-country reporting under the terms of the Capital Requirements Directive has been published by the
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76% of large companies are ‘most worried about country-by-country reporting’
I was amused by this comment in the newsletter of the International Financial Centres Forum yesterday (I do read the strangest things): Country-by-Country reporting is
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Yesterday at the EU
This is the video of the presentation I made to the TAXE committee of the EU yesterday. Begin at about 1 hour ten minutes. The
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The big tax question on Amazon remains
The Guardian has reported that: Amazon’s booming UK business paid just £11.9m of tax last year, while the online retailer’s Luxembourg unit took £5.3bn of
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Tax abuse goes on and on and on….
The EU announced incredibly weak plans to tackle tax abuse yesterday. And as the FT reports, the reaction was swift: Europe’s biggest business lobby group
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The EU says its getting tough on tax, but isn’t
The EU has announced its new corporation tax action plan. It says: Today the Commission presented an Action Plan to fundamentally reform corporate taxation in
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If creating a tax system that threatens to reallocate some of the world’s wealth to those most in need of it is a crime, I am guilty
Once upon a time country-by-country reporting was just an idea. But that was a long time ago in January 2003. Now country-by-country reporting is international politics. Which
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