The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has won backing from the G20 group of industrialised nations for the first internationally co-ordinated attempt to clamp down on tax avoidance.
Among the highlights of the plan are:
• Requiring online multinationals with extensive warehouse operations in an overseas country, such as Amazon, to pay local tax on any profits arising from sales in that country.
• Forcing multinationals to disclose to every tax authority a country-by-country breakdown of profits, sales, tax and other measures of economic activity such as headcount.
• Tougher rules to block transfers of high-value and mobile "intangible" assets, such as brands and intellectual property rights, to tax havens where there is little or no associated business activity.
• A crackdown on tax regimes found to have too soft an approach to multinationals deploying overseas finance subsidiaries through establishing a new international benchmark for appropriate taxation of controlled foreign companies.
• Wider measures to combat predatory tax competition policies emerging in some financially stretched countries, risking a "race to the bottom" climate on tax. The UK's new so-called "patent box" tax break for intellectual property companies will come under scrutiny.
• A raft of treaty updates to neutralise the tax advantages of complex financial instruments, schemes and structures, including hybrid capital, interest payment deductions and over-capitalisation.
• A requirement on multinationals to disclose the most aggressive "tax planning" structures to the authorities otherwise often relying on limited, local data that does not show the impact of transnational schemes to lower tax.
• New mechanisms to fast-track the introduction of OECD recommendations rapidly around the world. And a new approach to measuring the extent to which national tax coffers are being drained by multinationals artificially shifting their profits internationally to lower their tax bills.
theguardian.com
Among the highlights of the plan are:
• Requiring online multinationals with extensive warehouse operations in an overseas country, such as Amazon, to pay local tax on any profits arising from sales in that country.
• Forcing multinationals to disclose to every tax authority a country-by-country breakdown of profits, sales, tax and other measures of economic activity such as headcount.
• Tougher rules to block transfers of high-value and mobile "intangible" assets, such as brands and intellectual property rights, to tax havens where there is little or no associated business activity.
• A crackdown on tax regimes found to have too soft an approach to multinationals deploying overseas finance subsidiaries through establishing a new international benchmark for appropriate taxation of controlled foreign companies.
• Wider measures to combat predatory tax competition policies emerging in some financially stretched countries, risking a "race to the bottom" climate on tax. The UK's new so-called "patent box" tax break for intellectual property companies will come under scrutiny.
• A raft of treaty updates to neutralise the tax advantages of complex financial instruments, schemes and structures, including hybrid capital, interest payment deductions and over-capitalisation.
• A requirement on multinationals to disclose the most aggressive "tax planning" structures to the authorities otherwise often relying on limited, local data that does not show the impact of transnational schemes to lower tax.
• New mechanisms to fast-track the introduction of OECD recommendations rapidly around the world. And a new approach to measuring the extent to which national tax coffers are being drained by multinationals artificially shifting their profits internationally to lower their tax bills.
theguardian.com
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