While the OECD has trumpeted the agreement as a “major victory,” civil society groups have slammed the deal for pandering to tax havens at the expense of poorer nations.
After a decade of exposés and scandals, leaders from more than 100 countries have agreed to a minimum tax rate for multinational companies to pay wherever they operate.
For two decades, the multinational mass media conglomerate took advantage of tax havens in a global “game of cat and mouse,” Dutch researchers find.
The deal has been praised as a historic step in ending the ‘race-to-the-bottom’ between tax havens, but will need international backing to move forward.
The European Commission’s latest attempt to tackle corporate tax dodging and profit shifting would require unanimous approval by EU member states, some of which serve as tax havens.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Luxembourg’s treatment of whistleblower Raphael Halet “struck a fair balance” between protecting his freedom of expression and the rights of PwC, despite objections from two dissenting judges.
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The EU's permanent subcommittee will likely focus on corporate tax avoidance by tech companies and multinationals tax information, but not money laundering.
With governments racked by colossal costs due to the coronavirus pandemic, experts say tax evasion is cast in a stark new light.
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