ICTD researcher Rasmus Corlin Christensen was featured in Danish national newspaper Weekendavisen for his work in tax research. Read the article online here.
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Rasmus Corlin Christensen featured in Danish national newspaper
ICTD brief on UN tax negotiations cited in Tax Notes report
Following the first round of substance negotiations for a new UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (UN Tax Convention), Tax Notes featured extensively ICTD Policy Brief 19, on the trade-offs surrounding Protocol 1.
The article also quoted ICTD Associate Postdoctoral Fellow Frederik Heitmüller, who attended the first week of the sessions earlier this month, saying in part: “Delegates were still divided on the scope of the protocol and which services would be covered.”
Read the full article here and more about our work on the UN Tax Convention here.
Martin Hearson weighs in on 15% global tax deal in The Conversation Weekly podcast
ICTD Research Director Martin Hearson, who also leads the Centre’s International Tax programme, was interviewed in a recent episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast about the October 2021 global tax deal that requires large multinational companies to pay at least 15% in corporate tax.
Frederik Heitmüller cited in Tax Notes article on UN tax convention talks
ICTD Associate Postdoctoral Fellow Frederik Heitmüller weighed in on likely scenarios as negotiations for a new UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (UN Tax Convention) progress in 2025, in a Tax Notes article.
Heitmüller said it’s “important for Global North countries to be involved in the process somehow”, particularly in finding a cooperative solution on how to tax cross-border digital services, which many developing countries and emerging economies would like the convention to tackle.
“If you want to find a consensus solution between countries on how to tax [cross-border digital services] in a way that does not generate double taxation or that taxes net income as closely as possible, then you need the Global North on board,” he said, as quoted in the report.
Read the full article here, and click here to know more about our work on International Tax.