Multinational Enterprises and Transparent Tax Reporting

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-17571-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 231 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Accounting

This book examines tax transparency as part of multinational enterprises’ corporate social responsibility (CSR). It considers revelations like the Panama and Paradise Papers that shed light on corporations’ tax practices and the growing public dissatisfaction, resulting in legislative projects, such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) base erosion and profit shifting. Tax transparency is defined as companies’ voluntary disclosure of numerical tax data (e.g. taxes paid by country) and other tax-related information (e.g. tax policies). It is set apart from tax avoidance and tax evasion to clarify the often-blurred concepts.

In this book, tax transparency is placed in a historical context and possible drivers and hindering factors to tax transparency are investigated. Tax transparency is discussed in the light of socio-economic theories (stakeholder, legitimacy, institutional theory and reputation risk management), as well as economic theories (agency theory, signalling, proprietary costs) and information overload theory. The book provides examples of tax transparency development of the largest multinational enterprises in five countries (France, Germany, UK, Finland and USA) in six years, 2012–2017, a period featuring increased media coverage of tax matters and legislative movement in the OECD and the European Union. The future of tax transparency is discussed in light of quality characteristics, assurance of information and potential use of artificial intelligence.

Companies’ managers and tax and CSR specialists benefit from the book by gaining insight into how to design transparent, high-quality tax reporting. Assurance professionals can use information about the quality criteria of tax transparency. Regulators can track historical development and see examples of voluntary tax transparency in companies’ reporting. Scholars and students obtain theoretical framework for analysing the tax transparency phenomenon and the ability to distinguish between the concepts of tax transparency, planning, avoidance and evasion.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Middleton, Alexandra

Muttonen, Jenni

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen: Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Öffentliche Finanzwirtschaft, Besteuerung
• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensfinanzen Betriebliches Rechnungswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Overview of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) and tax landscape 2. Defining Tax Transparency 3. Drivers and theories behind tax transparency 4. Current status of tax transparency in CSR reporting 5. Future of tax transparency

Über Autor(innen)

Alexandra Middleton is an assistant professor with a PhD in financial accounting from the University of Oulu, Finland. Her research interests include tax transparency, CSR and sustainable business development in the Arctic.

Jenni Muttonen is an assurance professional working in financial and sustainability audits. She holds a master of science in economics and business administration from the University of Oulu, Finland, and a master of arts in international relations from the University of St Andrews, UK.