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US pillar two side-by-side deal will cost UK £700m per year The Office for Budget Responsibility’s pessimistic pillar two forecast accompanied the UK chancellor’s muted Spring Statement, dubbed ‘as dull as possible’ by one adviser

The UK will take in 30% less global minimum tax due to the unfair exemptions granted to US multinationals in January. A £700m reduction on the £2.3bn that was previously estimated. First country-level estimate anywhere in the world I think. www.internationaltaxreview.com/article/2g23...

A taxing week: Pillar two will prosper despite US side-by-side arrangement The political optics of the US’s carve-out deal are poor, but as the Fair Tax Foundation’s Paul Monaghan writes, it preserves pillar two’s guiding ethos

The Trump Administration has done it's utmost to try and torpedo the Global Minimum Tax on MNCs. But it's still very much alive because it's still a bloody good idea, and mainstream business knows this. My Op Ed for ITR.
www.internationaltaxreview.com/article/2g15...

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Triodos Bank secure Fair Tax Mark Netherlands-headquartered ethical bank achieve world’s first accreditation for responsible tax conduct: the Fair Tax Mark

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Trump’s Tax Law Sharply Cuts Amazon’s Corporate Tax Bill Breaks for investment and research lowered the company’s payments to the U.S. government.

Despite leap in revenues (up $79bn) and profits (up $29bn), Amazon’s corporate income tax has plummeted by a third ($4bn) and now equates to just 8.5% of profits in 2025. Fall driven by big reduction in tax paid in US, a result of enormously generous tax reliefs in Trump’s Big Beautiful Tax Bill

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Triodos Bank secure Fair Tax Mark Netherlands-headquartered ethical bank achieve world’s first accreditation for responsible tax conduct: the Fair Tax Mark

📢Delighted to announce @triodosuk.bsky.social 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐓𝐚𝐱 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤 - the first international bank to do so.

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Latest Fair Tax Foundation mailing is out. Analysis on:
- Why corporate income tax is the most critical of all taxes
- The global minimum tax is bruised, but very much alive and kicking
- MNCs seem divided on tax transparency, with US multinationals laggards
- And more
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The global minimum tax is bruised but very much alive and kicking - Fair Tax Foundation Don't believe the hype - the global minimum tax is still advancing and there is much to celebrate

Despite exempting US multinationals at the expense of public revenue, the latest #OECD tax deal preserves the important corporate global minimum tax. Check out @fairtaxfoundation.bsky.social for a more detailed analysis of the side-by-side deal here:
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Why small business tax dodgers should be as big a concern as big business tax avoidance - Fair Tax Foundation Small business tax avoidance is as real and substantive an issue as big business tax avoidance, especially in the UK

And if you want more detail on why this u-turn should be deplored and why it's so important to the health of UK high-streets that small business are forced to disclose their income, profits and taxes - visit this information hub fairtaxmark.net/smallbusines...

Whoah, Facebook's / Meta's accounts just out in the US. Corporate income tax paid is the lowest it's been in a decade (at just 9% of profits). But, thankfully, they're looking at big top-up tax payments due to the 15% Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax (CAMT) that Biden created.

Government delays small company filing of P&L beyond 2027 A major overhaul of accounts filing rules has been dropped as government says introduction of mandatory software only accounts filing will not go ahead in 2027

Really disappointing to see. Calls into question how serious current UK Government is at tackling the epidemic of tax dodging that we are seeing among small business. HMRC say that small business accounts for 60% of the UK's £47bn tax gap
www.accountancydaily.co/government-d...

Fair Tax Foundation: Global aftale om minimumsskat virker Ifølge Fair Tax Foundation er der – trods store bump på vejen – meget at fejre ved OECD’s globale minimumsskat, der blev aftalt i 2021 og som er ved at blive rullet ud på verdensplan. I en kommentar h...

Denmark's leading financial newspaper covers our recent deep dive on the corporate global minimum tax, and why the lamentation needs to be dialled down a few notches. ugebrev.dk/samfundsansv...

Latest Fair Tax Foundation mailing is out. Analysis on:
- Why corporate income tax is the most critical of all taxes
- The global minimum tax is bruised, but very much alive and kicking
- MNCs seem divided on tax transparency, with US multinationals laggards
- And more
mailchi.mp/fairtaxmark/...

The global minimum tax is bruised but very much alive and kicking - Fair Tax Foundation Don't believe the hype - the global minimum tax is still advancing and there is much to celebrate

There has been so many angry words written about the OECD global minimum tax in recent days that we thought we'd try and sort the Pillar Two wheat from the chaff.
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The global minimum tax is bruised but very much alive and kicking - Fair Tax Foundation Don't believe the hype - the global minimum tax is still advancing and there is much to celebrate

There has been so many angry words written about the OECD global minimum tax in recent days that we thought we'd try and sort the Pillar Two wheat from the chaff.
fairtaxmark.net/the-global-m...

ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Paul Monaghan Monaghan is CEO of the Fair Tax Foundation

Delighted to be back in the International Tax Review's Global Tax 50 - a list of international tax influencers, for both good and ill www.internationaltaxreview.com/article/2fo6...

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Research reveals that multinationals are divided on tax transparency, with MNEs from the United States increasingly laggards - Fair Tax Foundation 56% of the 190 corporate tax transparency reports published by large MNEs in connection with the EU pCbCR Directive are good, solid attempts

Decent application of the EU corporate tax transparency directive is substantially above average among MNEs headquartered in Japan (at 72%) and the UK (71%), but substantially below average in Switzerland (43%) and (surprise, surprise) among US multinationals (40%). fairtaxmark.net/pcbcr-across...

Research reveals that multinationals are divided on tax transparency, with MNEs from the United States increasingly laggards - Fair Tax Foundation 56% of the 190 corporate tax transparency reports published by large MNEs in connection with the EU pCbCR Directive are good, solid attempts

Decent application of the EU corporate tax transparency directive is substantially above average among MNEs headquartered in Japan (at 72%) and the UK (71%), but substantially below average in Switzerland (43%) and (surprise, surprise) among US multinationals (40%). fairtaxmark.net/pcbcr-across...

Corporate Income Tax information hub launched - Fair Tax Foundation Corporate Income Tax information hub launched. No other tax borne or collected by business comes close to having so many positive impacts.

No other tax comes close to having so many positive impacts. Corporation tax is more than a vital revenue raiser for public services. It is crucial to fair business competition, improved national productivity and reduced inequality. fairtaxmark.net/corporate-in...

Why Corporate Income Tax is the most critical of all taxes - Fair Tax Foundation Corporate income tax is a critical revenue raiser for public services. It's also crucial to fair competition, improved productivity and reduced inequality.

And here is chapter and verse on why corporation tax is the ultimate wealth tax fairtaxmark.net/resources/co...

Reform UK councils unveil plans for tax rises and service cuts Party controls nine English councils and leads three minority administrations after last year’s local election wins

Hilarious: this is verbatim what Labour said after taking power, but they called bullshit to that

Reform UK said it had “inherited broken councils with extremely challenging financial positions following years of incompetent Conservative administrations” www.ft.com/content/6837...

It's great to see the incredible achievements detailed in Clean for Good's 2025 Impact Report - including five years of Fax Tax Mark certification, signifying their commitment to paying tax fairly & transparently.

Full report here: www.cleanforgood.co.uk/impact-reports

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US wins exemptions from global minimum tax rules Agreement weakens 2021 deal brokered by OECD

This is the ugliest of compromises, but keeps the global minimum tax alive. Which is what really matters.

Worth remembering that the US already has a global minimum tax of 15% of sorts, albeit far inferior to the OECD's as is blended. www.ft.com/content/7d8e...

Tax-avoiding firms face higher investment costs due to lack of transparency Companies that engage in aggressive tax avoidance may be saving money in the short term, but they are paying a hidden price in the eyes of investors. According to a new study by the University of Port...

Research finds that:
- investors are rewarding increased corporate transparency and tax-responsible behaviour by lowering the cost of equity capital 😃
- tax avoiders tend to be rather averse to disclosing country-by-country information 😡
phys.org/news/2025-12...

Anti-fraud law sparks ‘dramatic fall’ in new company registrations Companies House now requires new directors and beneficial owners to verify their identity

Get ready for a swath of economically illiterate plonkers saying that this is a bad thing. The uk company register has been rammed with fraudsters for years. This fall is a GOOD THING www.thetimes.com/business/com...

Corporate Income Tax information hub launched - Fair Tax Foundation Corporate Income Tax information hub launched. No other tax borne or collected by business comes close to having so many positive impacts.

No other tax comes close to having so many positive impacts. Corporation tax is more than a vital revenue raiser for public services. It is crucial to fair business competition, improved national productivity and reduced inequality. fairtaxmark.net/corporate-in...

Corporate Income Tax information hub launched - Fair Tax Foundation Corporate Income Tax information hub launched. No other tax borne or collected by business comes close to having so many positive impacts.

No other tax comes close to having so many positive impacts. Corporation tax is more than a vital revenue raiser for public services. It is crucial to fair business competition, improved national productivity and reduced inequality. fairtaxmark.net/corporate-in...

Tax-avoiding firms face higher investment costs due to lack of transparency Companies that engage in aggressive tax avoidance may be saving money in the short term, but they are paying a hidden price in the eyes of investors. According to a new study by the University of Port...

Research finds that:
- investors are rewarding increased corporate transparency and tax-responsible behaviour by lowering the cost of equity capital 😃
- tax avoiders tend to be rather averse to disclosing country-by-country information 😡
phys.org/news/2025-12...