There’s a second article from Jesse Drucker in Bloomberg today. It reports: Over the past three years, Pfizer Inc. was an earner without profit in
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Companies Dodge $60 Billion in US Taxes
A new report by Jesse Drucker for Bloomberg has explored just how it can be that $60 billion is lost to the US Exchequer each
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Tax and corporate responsibility: a new briefing from Tax Research UK
Over the past four years I’ve written nearly 5,000 blog posts. Even I have to admit some repeat each other. As a result I have
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US progress on country-by-country reporting
Yesterday, the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved S. 2971, Foreign Relations Authorization Act, which included policy language on extractive industry transparency that parallels
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European Commission explicitly supports country-by-country reporting
The European Commission issued a paper this week entitled “Tax and Development: Cooperating with Developing Countries on Promoting Good Governance in Tax Matters”. Amongst its
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Standard Setters Risk Putting Oil, Gas and Mining Companies Before Investors and Citizens
Standard Setters Risk Putting Oil, Gas and Mining Companies Before Investors and Citizens In Steps Toward New Rules | PWYP. The International Accounting Standards Board
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EU Parliament votes for country-by-country reporting
The EU Parliament has voted by 283 votes to 278 votes for a resolution on development issues that called for: a new binding, global financial
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To Washington….
I’m at the start of a pretty frantic round trip to Washington to meet the IMF with the Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic
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A lack of will, not a lack of evidence
On 17 February the editor of Taxation magazine, Mike Truman, wrote an article under the title ‘Lack of Evidence’, the summary of which said: The
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