Taxation and Corporate Social Responsibility

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			              Taxation and Corporate Social Responsibility
Elwin Poortman, Analyst, Netherlands, Premium Member
TAX AVOIDANCE BY LARGE COMPANIES

The Panama Papers showed that tax avoidance takes place on a large scale. Taxation strategies of some large MNE’s involve aggressive tax planning, including transferring profits and using artificial structures in combination with tax havens to achieve lower taxes and larger profits as a result. Putting this into a CSR-context, such tactics can be seen as immoral strategies.

THE IMPACT OF TAX

Taxes have a contradictive meaning:

- On the one hand, taxes are like any other costs for a company.

- However on the other hand, they are an economic contribution to the society in which the business is conducted. Therefore, aggressive tax planning can have sign... Read more? Sign up for free
			            
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															Lillian Nabwire, Student (MBA), Kenya, Member
			                  		
			                  			Over Taxation to Pay Those Who Does not Work

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			                  			Taxation and CSR in Lithuania

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			                  			Multinational Companies, Taxation and CSR

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			                  			The Role of Society in Taxation and CSR

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															Mohammed kabashi - Geophysicist, Student (MBA), Sudan, Member
			                  		
			                  			Issues with Locating Tax Within CSR

															Mohammed kabashi - Geophysicist, Student (MBA), Sudan, Member
			                  		
			                  			Guidance with Locating Tax Within CSR

															Mohammed kabashi - Geophysicist, Student (MBA), Sudan, Member
			                  		
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