World events in the first decade of this century led many to question the state of the international tax regime and the role it could play in solving national fiscal problems. In 2012, leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) set the OECD an ambitious agenda of working out how tax base erosion and...

The proprietary nature of corporate management tax policy and corporate tax return information results in very little information being known about the tax aggressive behaviour of these entities. Despite this lack of inside knowledge, tax scholars have continued to attempt to identify corporate...

As part of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Base Erosion and Profit Shifting project, country-by-country reporting (CbCR) has been promoted as a mechanism to enhance transparency with respect to the operations and tax planning activities of large multinational...

In the 1970s, the Australian income tax system was subject to a wave of avoidance and evasion unprecedented in this country and probably unmatched anywhere else in the world. The episode cost revenue billions of dollars, did untold damage to the social fabric of our country and permanently...