Country-by-country reporting aims to curb tax avoidance by multinational corporations and increase transparency in the tax system. This paper provides the first evidence of the effect of country-by-country in developing countries, focusing on the market response of the African stock market to...

Tax fraud is a serious problem for fiscal authorities worldwide, not only in countries regarded as "hightax" like Germany. Besides longterm tax reforms, tax amnesties are used to bring back taxable amounts into the legal sector. The German tax amnesty of 2004/2005 was one of the last examples in...