The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has won backing from the G20 group of industrialised nations for the first internationally co-ordinated attempt to clamp down on tax avoidance
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has won backing from the G20 group of industrialised nations for the first internationally co-ordinated attempt to clamp down on tax avoidance.
Among the highlights of the plan are:
• Requiring online multinationals with extensive warehouse operations in an overseas country, such as Amazon, to pay local tax on any profits arising from sales in that country.
• Forcing multinationals to disclose to every tax authority a country-by-country breakdown of profits, sales, tax and other measures of economic activity such as headcount.
• Tougher rules to block transfers of high-value and mobile “intangible” assets, such as brands and intellectual property rights, to tax havens where there is little or no associated business activity.
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