Multinational tax integrity and tax avoidance by the fossil fuel industry: Part 2 – Pearls and Irritations

Tax concept, Withholding taxes binders files on document report in business office. Retention taxes is income tax to be paid to government by payer of income rather than by recipient of the income.

According to a report published in 2020 by the Global Alliance for Tax Justice, corporate ‘profit shifting’, a.k.a. ‘tax avoidance’, cost countries $620 billion in lost tax revenue in that year alone. Nowhere is this kind of behaviour more evident than in the operations of the global fossil fuel industry.

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