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Country-by-country reporting and commercial confidentiality

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Country-by-country reporting (CBCR) has been touted by the OECD as a possible reform effort to inhibit aggressive international tax planning that leads to revenue losses for high-tax countries. Under current accounting, tax-law, and securities-law regimes, multinational enterprises (MNEs) are generally not required to report to domestic tax authorities or disclose to the public any significant financial information concerning their operations in foreign countries. CBCR would change this environment so that MNEs would be required to annually report financial information, including revenue, profit before income tax, and income tax paid in respect of every country in which they operate. Under the current OECD proposal, MNEs will be required to disseminate this information to tax authorities on a confidential basis and will not be required to disclose any information to the public. This article evaluates, from a transaction cost perspective, the claim that reporting such information on a geographic basis could harm firm competitiveness if MNEs were also required to disclose such information to the public or if the information were improperly disclosed by foreign tax authorities to rival firms. While the empirical evidence on this issue is mixed, the analysis suggests that CBCR will not unduly raise MNE transaction costs, in part because there are sufficient legal protections to guard against the revelation of sensitive commercial or trade secrets. In fact, CBCR represents a transaction-cost-efficient reform that could inhibit the use of revenue-reducing international tax-planning strategies. The article additionally discusses transition issues with respect to the implementation of different "maximalist" or "minimalist" approaches to CBCR
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Country-by-country reporting and commercial confidentiality
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eng
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Country-by-country reporting (CBCR) has been touted by the OECD as a possible reform effort to inhibit aggressive international tax planning that leads to revenue losses for high-tax countries. Under current accounting, tax-law, and securities-law regimes, multinational enterprises (MNEs) are generally not required to report to domestic tax authorities or disclose to the public any significant financial information concerning their operations in foreign countries. CBCR would change this environment so that MNEs would be required to annually report financial information, including revenue, profit before income tax, and income tax paid in respect of every country in which they operate. Under the current OECD proposal, MNEs will be required to disseminate this information to tax authorities on a confidential basis and will not be required to disclose any information to the public. This article evaluates, from a transaction cost perspective, the claim that reporting such information on a geographic basis could harm firm competitiveness if MNEs were also required to disclose such information to the public or if the information were improperly disclosed by foreign tax authorities to rival firms. While the empirical evidence on this issue is mixed, the analysis suggests that CBCR will not unduly raise MNE transaction costs, in part because there are sufficient legal protections to guard against the revelation of sensitive commercial or trade secrets. In fact, CBCR represents a transaction-cost-efficient reform that could inhibit the use of revenue-reducing international tax-planning strategies. The article additionally discusses transition issues with respect to the implementation of different "maximalist" or "minimalist" approaches to CBCR
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In: Canadian tax journal = Revue fiscale canadienne. - Toronto. - Vol. 63 (2015),
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  • Cockfield, A.J
  • MacArthur, C.D
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  • OECD
  • CbCR
  • MNE
  • legal protection
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