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Base Erosion And Profit Shifting: Options, Opportunities And Alternatives, James Mohs, Martin Goldberg, David Palacio Buitrago
Base Erosion And Profit Shifting: Options, Opportunities And Alternatives, James Mohs, Martin Goldberg, David Palacio Buitrago
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Base erosion and profit shifting is generally defined as tax strategies that serve to exploit gaps or inconsistencies in global tax systems that allow an enterprise to shift profits to lower tax jurisdictions. This can be accomplished by either shifting income to lower tax jurisdiction or shifting deductible expenses to higher tax jurisdictions. Historically, these shifting strategies have been handled on a country by country basis with no centralized framework. In 2015 the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development proposed modifications through its Base Erosion and Profit Shifting project that if adopted by the member countries, would reverse the adverse …