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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...
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Taxation and CSR
Lillian Nabwire, Student (MBA), Kenya, Member It is unruly that tax evasion has become uncontrollable in our large organizations today as this bounces back to us through a poor economy. The prevai...
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Over Taxation to Pay Those Who Does not Work
Unre Visagie, Entrepreneur, South Africa, Member High taxes are responsible to force defensive behaviors.
We simply move our means of production so that more capital can create more jobs, rather...
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Taxation and CSR at Banks
zephir, engineer, France, Member When a bank buys planes that an airline will rent, that is not seen as a tax evasion. But in fact the bank doesn't have any use of planes in order to ...
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Taxation and CSR in Lithuania
Valentina Burksiene, Lecturer, Lithuania, Member It seems that in Lithuania till now it is (and hopefully will remain) only a storm in a teacup. No interesting names of politicians were found on that...
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Multinational Companies, Taxation and CSR
nadeem zia, Student (University), Member In emerging economies the level of corruption is so high, the regulator has no authority to implement laws and regulations in a true sense. The word '...
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The Role of Society in Taxation and CSR
j.a. karman, ICT Consultant, Netherlands, Member Marvelous: "THE IMPACT OF TAX. Taxes have a contradictive meaning:
- On the one hand, taxes are like any other costs for a company.
- Howev...
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Taxation and Corporate Social Responsibility
Mohammed kabashi - Geophysicist, Student (MBA), Sudan, Member Jane Frecknall Hughes and Keith W. Glaister (2009) in their article "Taxation and Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from UK Firms" found the f...
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Issues with Locating Tax Within CSR
Mohammed kabashi - Geophysicist, Student (MBA), Sudan, Member Here are some problems, when we're thinking about Corporate Social Responsibility in relation to taxation.
- How widely should we inter...
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Guidance with Locating Tax Within CSR
Mohammed kabashi - Geophysicist, Student (MBA), Sudan, Member Commentators do generally agree on certain concepts being relevant to CSR:
1. TRANSPARENCY/OPENNESS; is there necessarily a problem if you disclo...
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Ismael Bena - MBA
