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The Global Tax 20: Chris Jordan

Australian Taxation Office (ATO) Commissioner Chris Jordan never gives up on a worthy fight.

December 12 2018

The Global Tax 20: Tomas Balco

Tomas Balco's first year at the OECD has been a tough one, but he has shone through some of the toughest projects assigned to him in his first year as head of the transfer pricing unit.

December 12 2018

The Global Tax 20: Margrethe Vestager

The EU's most feared woman on state aid investigations has not strayed from dealing with unfair tax competition by member states and multinationals, but there were hints of her softening her stance – a little.

December 12 2018

Tax Relief

Tax Relief looks back more than 2,000 years to find the tax aspects of Christmas.

December 12 2018

The Global Tax 20: Akhilesh Ranjan

Akhilesh Ranjan is a significant person in the global discussions on BEPS deliverables and the debate on how to tax digital businesses, and is leading India's charge toward a 2019 direct tax reform.

December 12 2018

Uncertainty matters for journalists, too

Editor Joe Stanley-Smith looks back on the events of 2018.

Joe Stanley-Smith, December 12 2018

Taxing rights are the tax community’s hot potato

The June 21 decision by the US Supreme Court in South Dakota v Wayfair Inc that overturned, by a 5-4 majority, the previous leading case of Quill Corp v North Dakota has a significant effect on sales taxes within the US. But should businesses outside the US also be very concerned, given that some initial commentary suggested that this would result in a rapid change of the definition of permanent establishment?

December 12 2018

Facebook, Google and Kering Group questioned by EU MEPs

Some MEPs are frustrated that European governments can’t extract more taxation from Google on services it offers to EU consumers Facebook and Google emphasised the importance of international consensus on changes to the international tax system to tax the digital economy and the scope of value creation during an EU Parliament committee hearing.

Joe Stanley-Smith, December 12 2018

Peer company ETRs: Benchmarking complexity

The effective tax rate (ETR) of a peer company may be intuitively thought of as an industry benchmark. This benchmark could traditionally be useful to investors, boards of directors, CFOs and tax departments of multinationals and CFOs. But times are changing.

December 12 2018

How tax departments deal with uncertainty

Tax directors explain how they are trying to manage the political and legislative uncertainty around the world that is constantly changing the way their teams have to operate.

Joe Stanley-Smith, December 12 2018

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