European Commission Tax Fairness Conference: Taxing fairly – Taxing global

Today is day 2 of the European Commission Tax Fairness Conference, and the first session was entitled Taxing fairly – Taxing global. The key theme was to discuss how tax policy can ensure that large businesses pay a fair share of tax, when tax is fundamentally a national issue.

The panel consisted of:

• Valère Moutarlier, Director for Direct taxation, DG Taxation and Customs Union, European Commission

• Richard Murphy, Professor of Practice in International Political Economy at City University; Director at Tax Research UK and the Fair Tax Mark

• Jim Clarken, Executive Director of Oxfam Ireland

• Will Morris, Deputy Global Tax Policy Leader, PwC; Chair of the BIAC Tax Committee 

These are some of the key comments from the session.