Tax avoidance

The European Union’s inability to agree on taxing Internet giants like Google and Amazon shows the need for majority voting at the soon-to-be 27-member bloc, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said.

The country hopes to reverse swelling outflows to international tax havens.

Prior to the Tax Reform Act of 1986, the tax code was full of loopholes that individuals could take advantage of, especially movie stars.

A no-deal Brexit could create yet another headache for the European Union as it prepares to hand dozens of U.K.-based companies a tax bill that is expected to top $1.5 billion.

Sebastian Kurz will meet at the World Economic Forum with top officers of Alibaba, Facebook and Uber at the Alpine resort.

Tax authorities in Ireland are asking tougher questions of multinational companies that have been taking advantage of the country's low tax rates.

The European Union’s executive arm will propose the abolition of national vetoes on tax policy, which national governments are almost certain to reject.

The sportswear maker is the latest multinational to become embroiled in the European Union’s crackdown on corporate tax avoidance.

The nation’s super-rich are running for cover on concern the government will make up the shortfall by going after the wealthy.

Tax authorities swooped in on Walt Disney Co.’s Paris premises last year hunting for evidence to determine whether the entertainment giant improperly shifted revenue abroad, according to a series of court rulings from this month that tossed out claims the raids were illegal.

The chief executive officer of Denmark’s biggest fund will step down for allegedly trying to dodge Swiss taxes while running a unit of Nordea Bank a decade ago.

Many U.S. multinational corporations have packed up or are choosing to open subsidiaries in low-tax, rather than no-tax, countries that are seen as more legitimate than the formerly popular island destinations of the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas.

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire’s efforts to rally his European Union colleagues around a new tax on tech giants fell short.

Finance ministers are trying to strike a balance between luring business and addressing popular discontent about companies not paying their fair share.

The U.K. just joined a growing array of countries telling Big Tech it’s time to pay up.

Amazon.com Inc. and Starbucks Corp. were picked out by Britain’s top competition cop in a warning over tax arrangements that may help big companies thwart smaller rivals.

The Internal Revenue Service is hoping to expand the number of states who share data with the IRS as part of a joint federal and state program that’s trying to crack down on tax evasion.

Bankers, athletes and celebrities are suing Ingenious Media Holdings Plc, saying that they were misled about investments in the film industry that were later branded tax avoidance by the U.K. government.

Apple Inc. must still pay 5 billion euros ($5.8 billion) to comply with a European Union back-tax order, nearly two years after the company’s fiscal deals with Ireland were ruled illegal.

It’s easy to be outraged about multinational corporations’ shifting of profits to tax havens, but much harder to figure out how to stop them from doing it without hurting the economy. Evidence exists that curbing tax avoidance opportunities makes these firms move actual jobs, not just accounting profits, overseas.