In comments submitted April 28, FACT welcomed the application of strong reporting requirements largely in line with – and in some cases improving upon – international best practices for a wide variety of multinational enterprises, and offered recommendations to ensure the ultimate efficacy of Australia’s proposed public country-by-country reporting regime
In comments submitted on April 28, FACT applauded the Australian government’s draft legislation to mandate public country-by-country reporting of tax data from large multinationals, and offered recommendations for effective implementation of the new tax transparency regime.
Australia introduces public country-by-country reporting legislation with global reach, and FACT, Transparency International U.S., and Main Street Alliance submit their defense of the Corporate Transparency Act in court.
The legislation – expected to pass through the Australian Parliament this year – represents the first public country-by-country reporting regime with global reach to be advanced by any major jurisdiction.
Why 2023 is the year that FACT is pushing the SEC to use its authority to advance public country-by-country tax and operations reporting.
Australia may become the first country to require a wide range of MNEs (multinational enterprises), including some headquartered in the United States, to report key tax and operating information that is fully disaggregated on a country-by-country basis,
