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FACT Provides Comments to Financial Accounting Standards Board Urging Country-by-Country Tax Reporting

FACT recently sent comments to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) urging them to adopt country-by-country tax reporting as part of its public consultation on the Board’s priorities. FASB sets and oversees the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, the standard followed by most U.S. corporations in their financial reporting, and so could bring about widespread adoption of public country-by-country reporting as a way to ensure investors are fully able to assess reputational and regulatory risks in their portfolios.

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FACT Sheet: The Urgent Case for U.S. International Tax Reform

Concerns about competitiveness and how the OECD negotiations may interact with U.S. international tax reform consistent with the President’s Made in America Tax Plan, the Senate Finance Committee Framework for International Tax Reform, and the No Tax Breaks for Outsourcing Act, or NTBOA (H.R. 1785), are overstated—or, worse—purposefully misleading. To improve competitiveness for American working families and domestic businesses, and to ensure an OECD agreement is reached, Congress should act now on U.S. international tax reform.

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