Tax avoidance

Some common planning techniques have emerged to maintain favorable IP tax rates.

A group of Democrats in the House and Senate has introduced legislation that would require large multinational corporations to provide country-by-country financial reports indicating whether they are using offshore tax havens.

Spain will introduce a digital services tax at the end of the year that would hit the revenue of companies such as Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google in a move likely to draw the ire of the U.S. administration.

Updating global tax rules could boost government revenue by as much as $100 billion, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Thursday in an effort to spur complex negotiations between world powers.

About 135 of the world's countries are negotiating a radical change to the rules about where and how much multinational companies pay in taxes.

Apple Inc. reduced a massive back tax bill it must pay Ireland after other governments claimed a slice of the payment last year, according to regulatory filings.

Companies are using “clawbacks” to recover incentive compensation that was given to executives through erroneous financial reporting while lowering their effective tax rates, but clawback adoption could be having some negative consequences, according to a new study.

The Global Reporting Initiative has issued a new international tax reporting standard that aims to ensure multinational companies are much clearer about how much they pay in taxes, and where.

A little-noticed decision by the Internal Revenue Service’s appeals unit may spell trouble for legendary investor Jim Simons, who’s embroiled in a multibillion-dollar tax dispute with the agency.

The Internal Revenue Service has a message for companies that owe taxes on overseas profits: Auditors are closely watching.