Stepping out of the shadows: Enhancing taxpayer-authority relationships

Taxpayers and authorities are alive to the calls for greater transparency. And though this is building public pressure on tax authorities to milk multinational cash cows for all they can get, there is a growing realisation among authorities that ill-designed international tax rules and strains on resources, as well as the complex manner in which multinationals arrange their tax affairs, means that working with – rather than against – the largest taxpayers is the best way forward.