In the last five years immense progress has been made all around the world in the field of enhancing tax transparency. Today it can be said that era of bank secrecy for tax purposes is over due to implementation of international standards of tax transparency and exchange of information on request (EIOR) by many countries that helps successful tackling of international tax evasion. Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes is leading the way in this process by promoting rapid implementation of high international standards of transparency and ensuring that these standards are in place around the world through the monitoring, review and assessment activities. The results of these activities are presented on the page below.
Doing Business 2015: Going Beyond Efficiency, a World Bank Group flagship publication, is the 12th in a series of annual reports measuring the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 189 economies—from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe—and over time. Doing Business measures regulations affecting 11 areas of the life of a business. Ten of these areas are included in this year’s ranking on the ease of doing business: starting...
What started on November 17 as a revolt against rising fuel taxes in France has now lasted six consecutive weekends and evolved into a full-blown rejection of the socioeconomic policies of French President Emmanuel Macron. Protestors targeting of stagnant wages, rising prices and taxes, high unemployment in rural areas, pension security, government spending on bureaucrats, university entry requirements, and other issues has yielded some concessions—such as a minimum wage increase—yet protestors remain positioned in traffic roundabouts, poised for protests into the new year. In...
(19 July 2021) As a part of the European Green Deal, the European Commission has presented a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) for selected sectors aimed at addressing the risk of climate change by reducing GHG emissions in the European Union and globally. The current list of CBAM goods include five broad commodity groups — aluminum, cement, electricity, fertilizers, and iron and steel — but the list may be extended in the future. To ensure that the price of imports more accurately reflects their carbon content, EU imports of CBAM goods (or domestic consumption of imported...
(05 July 2021) At the beginning of July 2021, 130 countries and territories joined a plan, developed in negotiations coordinated by the OECD, to reform the international taxation system and ensure that multinational enterprises pay a fair share of tax wherever they operate. The plan is expected to be implemented starting in 2023. Taxing rights on more than $100 billion of profits are expected to be reallocated annually from multinational enterprises' home countries to the markets where they have business activities and earn profits, regardless of whether firms have a physical...
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