PWYP’s Mona Thowsen discusses the benefits of new extractive industries transparency standard

Salman Shaheen

September 10 2012

Publish What You Pay Norway has developed a new standard of country-by-country reporting, backed by trade unions and investment companies, which goes beyond the requirements of the EITI and Dodd Frank. National coordinator Mona Thowsen talks to International Tax Review about the benefits of this new standard, not only for tackling tax avoidance, but for companies themselves.

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