The OECD is holding a conference on possible reforms to its version of country-by-country reporting today. Tax authorities, business and civil society are represented. In
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Question of the day: should we bail out companies that use tax havens?
As was noted in some media yesterday: Denmark and Poland are refusing to let companies registered in offshore tax havens access financial aid from their coronavirus bailout packages. The
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The OECD needs to embrace radical reform to its country-by-country reporting standard
The OECD published the 79 comments it received on its consultation on the future of its version of country-by-country reporting yesterday. I should make a confession
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The Tories are still on the side of the tax cheats
There was a debate in the Commons on the tax gap yesterday. Labour initiated it. John McDonnell led the attack for them. You can read
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Journals, papers and prizes
I admit that I was pleased to be advised that a journal paper I co-authored with Dr Petr Jansky and Prof Atul Shah entitled ‘BEPS
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The Big 4, country-by-country reporting and where we go from here
I thought it worth sharing this Twitter narrative from Alex Cobham of the Tax Justice Network on the significance of the Big 4’s endorsement of
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What are the German government trying to hide?
The Suddeutsche Zeitung has a story this morning on country-by-country reporting and German corporate tax abuse this morning. As they note: The hope lasted only
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Why is the accounting profession still in denial on country-by-country reporting
The history of country-by-country reporting is pretty much like that of any new idea seeking to change public policy. First, they ignore you. Then they
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The GRI country-by-country reporting standard is launched today and other accounting standards setters should be taking note
As the FT reported a couple of days ago when discussing  corporation tax and corporate accountability: Now the Global Reporting Initiative, a not-for-profit setter of
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