Tag: multinationals
“The multinationals take the lion’s share”
Grandstand. Chocolate is the most popular confectionery in the world, tasted with relish by billions of people. At a time when consumers are attaching more and more importance to issues…
Against the tide of many multinationals, large French companies want to stay in Russia
The Danone factory in Chekhov (Russia), in July 2017. YURI KADOBNOV / AFP It was on tiptoe that Hermès was the first, on Friday morning March 4, to announce its…
Western multinationals prepare for sanctions against Moscow -More Inter
Alistair MacDonald, The Wall Street Journal LONDON (Agefi-Dow Jones)–Western companies operating in Russia and Ukraine are preparing for the potential impact of economic sanctions announced against Moscow on their operations…
“We must hold French multinationals to account”
Vincent Vicard in 2017. CEPII For Vincent Vicard, deputy director of the Center for Prospective Studies and International Information, policies focused on lowering production costs have not improved France’s competitiveness.…
They knew exactly that the climate was changing: as the oil multinationals have lied to us since 1971
The oil multinationals already knew 50 years ago that their business was fueling climate change. Internally, the most catastrophic consequences were warned, officially denied – because of the profit. BP,…
“Multinationals will be able to continue their arrangements in complete opacity to avoid tax”
Tribune. MEPs are going to adopt a directive on tax transparency for large multinational companies, the content of which has been so weakened that it will not meet its objective:…
“The Venice agreement on the taxation of multinationals remains to be negotiated”
Tribune. The agreement signed Saturday, July 10 in Venice by the G20 countries is a considerable step forward for the taxation of multinationals, and in particular that of digital giants,…
Historic agreement of the G20 countries for an international taxation of multinationals
Paolo Gentiloni (European Commissioner for the Economy), Chrystia Freeland (Minister of Finance of Canada), Janet Yellen (US Secretary of the Treasury) and Hong Nam-ki (Minister of Finance of South Korea)…
the tax on multinationals at 15%, “a real license to defraud for the most powerful players”
G7 finance ministers meeting at Lancaster House, London, June 5, 2021. HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP Chronic. G7 ministers announced on Saturday, June 5, their intention to apply a minimum tax…
“The taxation of multinationals risks not only making winners”
Tribune. The G7 finance ministers, meeting in London on June 4 and 5, aligned themselves with the reform proposed by the American president: they agreed on the introduction of a…
“The new method of tax sharing could worsen the tax situation of European multinationals”
Tribune. On June 5, 2021, the G7 finance ministers solemnly affirmed that they supported the efforts undertaken under the aegis of the OECD to distribute the tax bases more equitably…
“Well done to the G7 countries, but taxing multinationals will not solve everything”
Chronic. Let’s not shy away from our pleasure, well done to the G7 countries for having decided to impose a minimum taxation of their profits of 15% on multinationals. This…