As a result of the confidential sharing of data among tax authorities in different jurisdictions, effective tax rates have risen by between one and two percentage points. This demonstrates that the rules in place are working. By contrast, the publication of sensitive corporate data online makes...

Last year, a total of 1,700 new protectionist measures were introduced around the world. This marks a new record. Even before the war in the Ukraine, political disputes were increasingly handled using economic sanctions - an approach which leads to high economic costs. Family companies in...