Οι υπουργοί Οικονομικών των τριών ευρωπαϊκών χωρών, της Ρωσίας και ο επικεφαλής του ΟΟΣΑ σε κοινή συνέντευξη Τύπου ανακοίνωσαν ότι η χρήση υπεράκτιων εταιρειών για τη μείωση της φορολογικής επιβάρυνσης ανήκει πλέον στο παρελθόν. Οι εταιρείες υποχρεούνται να πληρώνουν τους φόρους σύμφωνα με τους εθνικούς κανονισμούς της χώρας στην οποία λειτουργούν.
«Κατόπιν αιτήματος των υπουργείων Οικονομικών των G20, ο ΟΟΣΑ έχει εκπονήσει ένα σχέδιο δράσης για την αντιμετώπιση της διάβρωσης της φορολογικής βάσης. Τα νέα μέτρα οφείλουν να εφαρμόσουν όλες οι χώρες, ώστε να ελαχιστοποιηθεί η φοροδιαφυγή ισχυρών φορολογουμένων», δήλωσε ο υπουργός Οικονομικών της Ρωσίας, Αντόν Σιλουάνοφ.
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G20 to multinationals: Pay more in taxes ...
ReplyDeletePARIS — Stashing profits offshore may soon get tougher for companies, thanks to an ambitious plan released Friday by the finance chiefs of leading world economies aimed at forcing multinationals to pay more taxes.
Low tax payments by major global companies — including Google, Amazon, Facebook and Starbucks — have sparked public anger in Europe recently, as governments are struggling with high debts, low growth and austerity measures that are hitting ordinary taxpayers.
“National tax laws have not kept pace with the globalization of corporations and the digital economy, leaving gaps that can be exploited by multinational corporations to artificially reduce their taxes,” the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said in a statement Friday announcing the new tax plan. It was unveiled at a meeting of the Group of 20 finance ministers in Moscow.
The Paris-based OECD says that the new 15-point plan includes ways to close loopholes and allow countries to tax profits held in offshore subsidiaries. If it is adopted, the measures would be implemented over the next two years and target such practices as deducting the same expense more than once, in more than one country.
The plan also has a special focus on the digital economy, where commerce flows across borders constantly and it’s harder to tie revenue and profit to a single country.
G20 finance officials are also looking at giving countries a score of 1 to 4 depending on how cooperative they are with other governments on tax evasion, tax fraud and money laundering.
The plan’s designers insist it isn’t anti-business, and is in part aimed at making things more consistent for companies and governments.
Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, the host of Friday’s G20 meetings, said it’s aimed at allowing “multinational corporations to prosper without loading a higher tax burden on domestic companies and individual taxpayers.”
The OECD has been at the forefront of efforts to tackle tax evasion, especially since the global financial meltdown five years ago. But repeated pledges at G20 meetings have not always lived up to their promise, and companies around the world continue to turn regularly to tax havens.
The problem has gained urgency as European governments, struggling with exceptionally tight budgets, become more determined to recover any revenue they can from rich companies seen as avoiding fair taxes.
Over the past year, Britain, France and Germany have pushed particularly hard for more coordinated international efforts to get corporations paying more taxes. But some countries in Europe, such as Ireland and Luxembourg, have been reluctant to join in because they currently attract major companies by offering low corporate taxes.....http://www.timesargus.com/article/20130720/BUSINESS03/707209991/1006/BUSINESS
21/7/13
G20 on warpath against tax dodging...
ReplyDeleteMultinational companies could face tough new tax rules within two years after the Group of 20 backed a plan to stop blatant – but now legal – tax-minimisation strategies.
Tax experts said the ambitious plan could lead to more changes to laws in Australia despite recent tightening to restrict profit shifting, and companies were already paying attention.
“Multinationals are taking it into account when they put together their global tax plans – they have to,” said Clayton Utz partner Niv Tadmore.
The action plan, which recommends 15 new principles for nations to adopt, was drafted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and endorsed by G20 finance ministers in Moscow over the weekend, including Treasurer Chris Bowen.
It includes rules to stop companies from deducting debt in high-taxing nations where the interest receipts are not taxed elsewhere, using “conduit” companies that funnel money to tax havens, and shifting intellectual property offshore to avoid tax.
The two-year plan endorses greater transparency of schemes adopted and taxes paid by multinationals.
Dr Tadmore said the changes could include new rules that “deem” values for IP, to address concerns that companies move the valuable assets to havens where they can amass profits. Deeming values could attribute higher prices to an IP asset, meaning its transfer could attract more tax in the origin country.
The past year has seen a surge in appetite among Western nations to attack multinationals, after revelations of complex – but legal – structures adopted by the likes of Google, Apple and Starbucks to minimise tax.
The proposals go further than controversial changes adopted in Australia in the past year, including updated transfer pricing laws, a crackdown on interest deductions relating to tax-exempt foreign dividends, and the Australian Taxation Office publication of profits and taxes of big businesses.
The new transfer pricing rules automatically adopt any changes the OECD might make to its rules.
This week, Treasury is due to release a scoping paper exploring ways to stop the erosion of tax revenues due to complex profit shifting by multinationals.
Dr Tadmore said the OECD plan’s ambitious two-year timeline was not “pie in the sky” and would lead to changes. But its success would depend on “unprecedented levels of co-operation among tax authorities”, he said.
Multilateral support ‘vital’....http://www.afr.com/p/national/on_warpath_against_tax_dodging_eIKRsEOqlns6aJg2qmp9uM
21/7/13
G20 Ministers Focus on Tax Evasion, Stimulus Measures...
ReplyDeleteThe fight against tax evasion by multinational corporations and measures to ensure recovery amid the global economic turbulence came into the limelight at the two-day meeting of Group of 20 finance ministers that finished in Moscow on Saturday.
Finance ministers and central bank governors of the world's 20 biggest economies agreed to focus on boosting employment and economic growth and continue the policy of monetary support where needed, according to the closing communique from the meeting.
"The global economy remains too weak and its recovery is still fragile and uneven. Unemployment remains excessively high in many countries," the communique said. "Strengthening growth and creating jobs remain our priority, and we are fully committed to taking decisive actions to return to a robust, job-rich growth path".
To make that growth possible, the officials agreed to develop an action plan to be presented at the summit of the G20 leaders in September. The plan will include "a comprehensive series of structural reforms that will increase productivity, labor force participation and employment," the communique said.
Among such reforms is a major tax move proposed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and aimed at increasing the transparency of taxation systems globally......Read more: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/g20-ministers-focus-on-tax-evasion-stimulus-measures/483443.html#ixzz2Zkl9piEv
The Moscow Times
22/7/13