Multinational financial institutions (MNFIs) play a significant role in financing the activities of their clients in developing nations. Consistent with the ‘follow-the-customer' phenomenon which explains financial institution expansion, these entities are increasingly profiting from...

Recently, the Organisation for Economic Co‑operation and Development (OECD), at the invitation of G20 countries, developed what it refers to as the new single global standard for the automatic exchange of information (AEOI) between key revenue authorities worldwide. This standard, if adopted...

On 21 September 1999 Division 152 was inserted into the Income Tax Assessment Act (1997) (ITAA 1997). Division 152 contains the small business CGT concessions, which enables eligible small business taxpayers to reduce the amount of tax payable on capital gains arising from certain CGT events...

The issue of corporate accountability is as old as the corporate form. Regulators have conventionally sought to ensure corporate financial accountability by requiring companies to make public financial disclosures, with shareholders and creditors able to act on that information in their dealings...