Category: Fiscal policy
The score at half time: OECD 7, Tax Avoidance ??
16/09/2014
Today the OECD announced the deliverables on seven of their fifteen planned actions to tackle global corporate tax avoidance. (for background, see …
OECD and tax avoidance: the story so far ...
02/04/2014
In a webcast from Paris this afternoon, the OECD updated the world on progress on the BEPS project to date. Pascal Saint-Amans stressed the process …
A new world order in corporate tax?
19/07/2013
The long-awaited OECD Action Plan on Base Erosion and Profit-Shifting (BEPS) has been released this morning, in time for the G20 meeting in Moscow. …
Tax transparency: a step change or climate change?
18/06/2013
The OECD has another new report out today on tax transparency, this time to tie in to the G8 meeting in Enniskillen. Formally, this report was …
International tax avoidance - an update
05/06/2013
In advance of the G8, it might be useful to update what’s happening with the main international movers on the question of international tax …
Ethics and regulation: complements, not alternatives
15/05/2013
Last week former Taoiseach and President of IFSC Ireland, John Bruton, said that the banking industry needed "to focus on ethics rather than …
Debt, Growth and Coding Errors
Tom McDonnell 17/04/2013
Tom McDonnell: Reinhart and Rogoff's finding that the growth rate starts to decline once the public debt to GDP ratio exceeds 90% has become embraced …
What's a Euro anyway?
26/03/2013
Is a euro in a Cypriot bank, locked down by withdrawal limits and capital controls, the same as a euro in an Irish or French bank? Is a euro sitting …
Drivers of progressive tax
12/03/2013
A recent OECD report olooks at the progressivity of income tax systems in their 34 member countries. A progressive tax is often simply defined as one …
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