In this exclusive op-ed piece for International Tax Review, Chris Lenon, former head of tax for Rio Tinto and an expert witness to the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT), argues that a focus on incentives and ultra low or no tax jurisdictions should be policy makers’ priority, rather than ideas included in the commission’s report, such as allocation.
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