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Global banana distributor Agrofair first Dutch multinational to gain fair tax mark

Experts from KPMG explore what tax transparency means for multinationals around the world

This week, SPD leader Olaf Scholz secured a coalition agreement with the Greens and the FDP. The deal included a proposal to introduce a carbon floor price, propelling EU ETS prices to a record high.

Biden however, is expected to face stiff opposition from Republicans and would need cross-party support to steer the plan through a Congress that is split 50-50. In a sign of the challenge facing the president, the centrist Democrat senator Joe Manchin has already said he would favour a 25% corporate tax rate, rather than 28%. The proposals to the OECD came after G20 finance ministers agreed on Wednesday to make progress on seeking an international consensus on tackling tax avoidance. They inte...

CHRIS ROPER: Soon, you won’t have to let people die Microsoft has patented technology that will allow it to use the data of the deceased to turn them into chatbots 28 January 2021 - 05:00 Chris Roper Picture: 123RF/dbayan If you visit the website of the US patent & trademark office, you’ll find patent number 10,853,717 B2, filed on December 1 2020 by "inventors" Dustin I Abramson and Joseph Johnson jnr, on behalf of Microsoft. Its 21 pages of dense text can be boiled ...