Coronavirus and tax avoidance Europe is experiencing its greatest healthcare and economic crisis since World War II. The current crisis has put additional strain on underfunded healthcare and social welfare systems and has exposed the true cost of...
Europe is going through its greatest crisis since World War II, with the Coronavirus pandemic currently affecting every EU State. Images of Italian hospitals with thousands of patients to treat while on the verge of collapse have shocked the...
Transparency International EU (TI-EU) is an international non-profit organisation under Belgian law (AISBL) based in Brussels (Belgium). We work closely with Transparency International national chapters in over 100 countries worldwide and the...
Transparency International EU (TI EU), the Brussels office of the global movement against corruption, has called on Member States to redouble their efforts to find a way forward on the issue of corporate tax transparency, following the latest...
Three years have passed since the European Commission published a legislative proposal for mandatory tax transparency for multinational companies in the EU, called Public Country by Country Reporting[1]. This week, Ministers from EU Member States...
The European Commission is conducting a fitness check of the EU framework on public reporting by companies, which aims to assess whether it is still fit for purpose. The fitness check includes a recently published public consultation, which allows...
Even though the importance of financial transparency is widely recognized, it seems unlikely that the German grand coalition would push public country-by-country reporting forward in the Council of the European Union, after Transparency...
The negotiations on EU legislation for public country-by-country reporting (CBCR), have been stalled by the EU Council. However, the recent result of the German Social Democrats’ (SPD) vote in favour of forming a grand coalition with Angela...
A year after the Panama Papers revelations, the Paradise Papers leak once again brought light to the murky world of financial and tax secrecy made of opaque corporate structures as well as secret tax arrangements and schemes aimed at lowering large...