{"id":47697,"date":"2020-01-24T08:43:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T08:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=47697"},"modified":"2020-01-24T08:43:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T08:43:06","slug":"the-big-4-country-by-country-reporting-and-where-we-go-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/01\/24\/the-big-4-country-by-country-reporting-and-where-we-go-from-here\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big 4, country-by-country reporting and where we go from here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it worth sharing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexcobham\/status\/1220618084463063041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this Twitter narrative<\/a> from Alex Cobham of the Tax Justice Network on the significance of the Big 4's endorsement of country-by-country reporting at Davos, which I have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/01\/24\/the-big-4-accountancy-firms-have-finally-endorsed-public-country-by-country-reporting\/\">already mentioned<\/a> this morning:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/01\/24\/the-big-4-country-by-country-reporting-and-where-we-go-from-here\/screenshot-2020-01-24-at-08-33-33\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47698\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-47698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-08.33.33-485x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-08.33.33-485x1024.png 485w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-08.33.33-142x300.png 142w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-08.33.33-768x1620.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-08.33.33-190x400.png 190w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-08.33.33.png 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/01\/24\/the-big-4-country-by-country-reporting-and-where-we-go-from-here\/screenshot-2020-01-24-at-08-34-13\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47699\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-47699\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-08.34.13-540x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-08.34.13-540x1024.png 540w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-08.34.13-158x300.png 158w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-08.34.13-768x1455.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-08.34.13-211x400.png 211w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-08.34.13.png 1158w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a>The<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexcobham\/status\/1220618084463063041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> live links are in here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I support the call that the GRI standard become the standard.<\/p>\n<p>But I'd add a caveat, as a member of the committee that wrote it (as Alex was too): good guidance notes are still needed. This cannot work without them being added and they have not been done as yet.<\/p>\n<p>I'd be delighted to work on that issue, but some funding will be required. The rate of return on the investment made would be considerable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it worth sharing this Twitter narrative from Alex Cobham of the Tax Justice Network on the significance of the Big 4&#8217;s endorsement of<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/01\/24\/the-big-4-country-by-country-reporting-and-where-we-go-from-here\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,26,81,101,176,79,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountancy","category-accounting","category-auditing","category-big-4","category-corporate-accountability-network","category-country-by-country","category-tax-justice-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}