States’ Corporate Sales Tax Enforcement Doesn’t Go Far Enough

States’ Corporate Sales Tax Enforcement Doesn’t Go Far Enough

Sales tax compliance is a bit of an unknown quantity in the US. Calculating the tax gap—the difference between taxes collected and taxes owed—in sales and use tax is much more difficult than the income tax gap. For income tax, there are secondary sources of information available from employers; in sales tax, there is no … Read more

Should There Be A “T” In ESG?

Should There Be A “T” In ESG?

A recent paper in the Vanderbilt Law Review raised a fascinating question about the growing links between corporate tax policy and environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy. As new global regulations like the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) start requiring corporations to disclose more detail than ever … Read more

Are real property taxes set to increase?

Are real property taxes set to increase?

Republic Act No. 12001 has been signed into law by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. This new law is called the Real Property Valuation and Assessment Reform Act (RPVARA). Simply put, the RPVARA seeks to provide a uniform valuation for real properties in the country. It also creates the Real Property Information System, which shall maintain … Read more

Challenges & changes: The evolving landscape of indirect tax compliance – Thomson Reuters Institute

Challenges & changes: The evolving landscape of indirect tax compliance - Thomson Reuters Institute

A new report shows that indirect tax professionals are challenged by the increasingly global and digital business environment — and more tech means they need more people with tech skills In a world in which business operations are increasingly global and digital, the challenges surrounding indirect tax and compliance are becoming more complex. To learn … Read more

How the IRS went soft on billionaires and corporate tax cheats – ICIJ

How the IRS went soft on billionaires and corporate tax cheats - ICIJ

Michael Welu worked at the IRS for decades as a specialist in helping agents identify and investigate possible tax crimes. In an agency known for offices working in their own silos, Welu had the rare ability to move between divisions, dissecting and learning each office’s particular customs and procedures. But that experience had its own … Read more

Fairness, Transparency, and Enforcement: Principles for Taxing U.S. Multinational Corporations In 2025

Fairness, Transparency, and Enforcement: Principles for Taxing U.S. Multinational Corporations In 2025

Click here to download Briefing Memo on Foreign-Derived Intangible Income (FDII) The 2017 tax reform massively reshaped how U.S. multinationals are taxed on their foreign income, including through the application of a global minimum tax that grants corporations a substantial discount on their foreign profits. This discount gave big multinationals new incentives to stash their … Read more

High corporate tax rates – a barrier to MNCs | The Express Tribune

High corporate tax rates – a barrier to MNCs | The Express Tribune

KARACHI: Approximately 210 multinational companies (MNCs) in Pakistan operating in sectors like tobacco, oil, auto, pharmaceuticals, banking and others contribute a third of the total tax collection and make a major contribution to the national exchequer. They also reinvest in their respective units or inject capital into some new ones. Moreover, they make investments of … Read more

Cypriot firm secures strategic investment for European expansion

Cypriot firm secures strategic investment for European expansion

Ask Wire, a Cypriot firm, successfully completed an equity extension round to support its expansion into key European markets, particularly Greece and Romania. The majority of the funding was provided by existing investors, with significant participation from Lars Rasmussen, co-founder of Google Maps. Additional investment came from high-net-worth individuals in Greece and Romania, as well as Founders Bridge, a Stockholm-based venture capital fund. Ask Wire’s platform provides property profiles, market analysis, and risk assessments using data from various sources.

Corporate Tax Breaks

Corporate Tax Breaks

Fact: A bipartisan group of lawmakers, including both liberal and conservative members, supported a bill that would change the rules allowing corporations wide discretion to choose who gets their online sales taxes, potentially funneling billion in tax kickbacks back to communities across the state.

Muslim schools caught up in France, ’s fight against Islamism

Sihame Denguir enrolled her teenage son and daughter in France’s largest Muslim private school, Averroes, in Lille, which lost government funding due to not complying with secular principles.