Numerous journalists have called me asking how we should tackle the whole issue of tax avoidance by multinational corporations who right now seem to be
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If only Bill, if only Bono….then we’d have real change and no need for “innovative financing for development”
The Elysee Palace have issued a press release that says (near enough): The President of the Republic received together this afternoon, at the Elysee Palace,
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The oil industry wants to maintain secrecy so it can maintain the culture of corruption
The American Petroleum Institute – representing all the major US oil companies – has launched a law suit against the SEC in the USA to block the
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Tax authorities back country-by-country reporting to prevent transfer pricing abuse
Transfer Pricing Weekly (I kid you not, there is such a magazine) has good news on country-by-country reporting this week. As they note: Four tax authorities
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Yesterday’s EU decision on country-by-country reporting: a big step forward
I can do little better than quote extensively from the EU’s own press release on the EU Parliament’s decision on country-by-country reporting, which said: Large extractive companies dealing
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Transparency for the extractive industries moves one step closer
I reproduce the following press release from Global Witness as it brings good news from the EU this morning on progress on country-by-country reporting for the extractive industries: Global Witness welcome today’s European
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And there’s more good news on tax and development today – from the USA
In the UK those of us with concern on tax and development have good reason to be pleased this morning. But there’s also good news from
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Sir Malcolm Bruce MP says we want country-by-country reporting, now
According to the FT this morning: Sir Malcolm Bruce [has] called on ministers to require British companies to report how much they earned in each
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The House of Commons International Development Committee say its time for country-by-country reporting
The House of Commons International Development Committee has published a report today on tax in developing countries. Amongst the issues they reported on was country-by-country reporting. Having
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