The world’s tax authorities are showing much greater interest in evaluating how a company’s tax matters are governed. For example, current tax authority risk assessment programs in the UK, Australia and the Netherlands explicitly address the strength of a company’s tax governance policies.
Tax authorities are also demanding more transparency in compliance processes. For example, in the UK, senior accounting officers of large companies must annually certify that their tax systems and controls are adequate. The US requires companies to report the impact of “uncertain tax positions” on their balance sheets and tax returns. Using these disclosures, tax authorities will focus on areas of potential non-compliance or differing interpretation, with the expectation of resolving disputes and settling tax assessments more efficiently.
Other regulators and non-governmental organizations are also looking at how a company’s approach to tax management is helping fulfill what are seen as its wider corporate responsibilities. For example, reporting requirements under the Dodd-Frank Act in the US and the proposed EU Transparency Directive will require detailed country-by-country (or project-by-project in some cases) tax data. A company’s own need for timely and accurate financial data is also challenging the tax department to think more widely about what its responsibilities entail and how to fulfill them.
Since our last survey in 2009, boards and finance executives are clearly responding to this rising focus on the management of tax. The current survey shows senior executives and directors are taking more interest in, and responsibility for, tax matters
The world’s tax authorities are showing much greater interest in evaluating how a company’s tax matters are governed. For example, current tax authority risk assessment programs in the UK, Australia and the Netherlands explicitly address the strength of a company’s tax governance policies.
Tax authorities are also demanding more transparency in compliance processes. For example, in the UK, senior accounting officers of large companies must annually certify that their tax systems and controls are adequate. The US requires companies to report the impact of “uncertain tax positions” on their balance sheets and tax returns. Using these disclosures, tax authorities will focus on areas of potential non-compliance or differing interpretation, with the expectation of resolving disputes and settling tax assessments more efficiently.
Other regulators and non-governmental organizations are also looking at how a company’s approach to tax management is helping fulfill what are seen as its wider corporate responsibilities. For example, reporting requirements under the Dodd-Frank Act in the US and the proposed EU Transparency Directive will require detailed country-by-country (or project-by-project in some cases) tax data. A company’s own need for timely and accurate financial data is also challenging the tax department to think more widely about what its responsibilities entail and how to fulfill them.
Since our last survey in 2009, boards and finance executives are clearly responding to this rising focus on the management of tax. The current survey shows senior executives and directors are taking more interest in, and responsibility for, tax matters
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