Talking Tax

A landmark meeting on curbing climate change didn't do much to address the role that tax measures might play, but financial-climate consultants and academics still think they can contribute to reducin...

18 Nov 202116min

After years of negotiations led by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, more than 130 jurisdictions backed a deal last month to overhaul how and where multinational companies are...

10 Nov 20219min

Last month saw the resolution of years-long negotiations over a global tax deal. Nearly 140 countries signed an agreement to create a 15% global corporate minimum tax rate and reallocate a portion of ...

4 Nov 202117min

The growth of so-called "cord cutters" canceling their cable TV subscriptions has had an unintended consequence for local governments: their revenue from the right-of-way fees they impose on the cable...

28 Okt 202120min

Facebook's long-running tax dispute with the IRS finally resumed this month after a lengthy delay caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The social media giant is fighting IRS allegations that the company u...

21 Okt 202117min

The Group of 20 finance ministers have formally backed a global plan to overhaul where and how multinationals are taxed and set a minimum 15% corporate tax rate. The OECD-brokered deal—backed by 136 c...

14 Okt 202114min

Pandora's box got flung wide open this week, and secrets about how global billionaires and politicians stash their assets came spilling out. The Pandora Papers are a giant leak of millions of financia...

7 Okt 202118min

In the field of accounting, the robots have most definitely arrived. Front-line accountants may already use some of type of bot, also known as robotics process automation, or RPA. Or maybe they would ...

30 Sep 202119min