Jeffrey Owens, long-running head of tax at the OECD till last year, and Mick Moore, director of the International Centre for Tax and Development at
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The dawning realisation that underpins the G8 summit
From the Guardian this morning comes this observation on the process that has lead to Cameron putting tax abuse at the heart of the G8 summit: There
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From January 2003 to May 2013 – progress with country-by-country reporting
In January 2003 I published a report with this cover, which was made available here: I thought that this proposal would be read by Prof Prem
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The rush to country-by-country reporting is on
Bloomberg reported yesterday that: The European Union will seek to make large companies disclose the taxes they pay and profits they make on a country-by-country basis as
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Is EU wide country-by-country reporting really on its way?
I sat and listened to Big 4 accountants saying how dangerous and misleading country-by-country reporting would be this afternoon – although I can’t say where.
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The case of vanishing subsidiaries: the problem country-by-country would tackle
As the Wall Street Journal has reported: WASHINGTON–Some of the biggest U.S. companies, including Google Inc. and FedEx Corp., have quietly removed hundreds of offshore
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“If the state will not stand up for its right to tax big corporations then we are in deep trouble” (me, in the Observer, this morning)
The Observer has featured on tax issues this morning it seems. In their special report on tax avoidance they set the scene, saying: The debate
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The moral case for country-by-country reporting has been won: now we just need to beat off the accountants to get it
As the Guardian editorial notes this morning: Whether it’s Jimmy Carr or Starbucks, public anger over tax avoidance must be most evident in the UK.
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Cameron falls short in the Wall Street Journal
David Cameron has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today in which he says: At the G-8 next month in Northern Ireland I will push for
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