3.2 Country-by-Country Reporting
and Beneficial Ownership
Transparency is key to many problems around tax evasion.
Accordingly, information on transnational companies
is required that reveals the geographical distribution
of their corporate figures – assets, staff, sales, etc. –
on the one hand, and their payments to governments,
including taxes, on the other; this often referred to as
»country-by-country reporting« (Murphy 2012). It is
then possible to compare the two across countries and
detect any mismatches between them.