Multinationale selskabers skattefusk et kæmpe problem

Guardian gennemgår her en stribe analyser og rapporter, som indikerer, at multinationale selskabers skattefusk er et enormt globalt problem, som går ud over mange landes velfærd. En gruppe forskere har udviklet nogle overordnede principper for, hvordan myndighederne kan begynde at forholde sig mere aktivt til problemstillingerne: ”Through several rounds of responding to one another’s ideas and arguments, the experts came to agree on some key reforms designed to increase financial transparency at both the domestic and global levels, including that all governments should mandate: 1. Each company, trust or foundation disclose the person(s) who own or control it; 2. Each multinational corporation report profits and other tax-relevant information separately for each country so as to make apparent when tax havens account for a much larger share of its profits than of its operations; 3. National tax authorities automatically exchange tax relevant financial information worldwide to make it easier to detect and prosecute tax evasion by corporations and individuals; 4. Corporations publicly report on funds they pay to governments for the extraction of natural resources; 5. Tough sanctions, including jail time, be imposed on senior officers of global banks, accounting firms, law firms, insurance companies and hedge funds for facilitating tax evasion.”