Multinational Tax Avoidance: Virtue Ethics and the Role of Accountants

The techniques that some large multinational corporations use to reduce their tax liability have come under increasing public scrutiny in recent years, alongside governmental investigations and international commitments aimed at curbing opportunities for tax avoidance. Although discussion of tax avo...

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Main Author: West, Andrew (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer 2018
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2018, Volume: 153, Issue: 4, Pages: 1143-1156
Further subjects:B transfer pricing
B Accounting ethics
B Fraud triangle
B Tax evasion
B Tax avoidance
B MacIntyre
B Multinational Corporations
B Virtue Ethics
B Professional Ethics
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