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Paying their Fair Share: Will changes in corporate tax rules help international development?

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Thursday, November 12, 2015
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Peter Barnes
Rethinking Development Policy

Starbucks. Apple. Google. Amazon. The OECD and other experts assert that multinational corporations avoid between $100 billion and $240 billion a year in corporate taxes by shifting profits to lower-taxed countries. The OECD and G20 have just endorsed a 15-step action plan to limit this profit shifting. Will it work? What is in the plan? Will it help the developing world? Learn more about the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting initiative from Peter Barnes, senior fellow at DCID and former senior international tax counsel for General Electric.

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