The corporate sector seems unimpressed by civil society's arguments justifying the need for country-by-country tax transparency (the controversial public country-by-country reporting).
At an event hosted by the ALDE group on Thursday 1 June, James Watson of BusinessEurope (the organisation representing European employers) reiterated a very simple fact: confidential reporting to the tax administrations exists. It has even been the subject of an international agreement under the aegis of the...