In 2015, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development member countries came up with 15 action points to minimise tax avoidance.treaties are usually signed between two countries to principally facilitate international trade and commerce to achieve tax neutrality without taxation becoming an impediment.
In the event the specific treaty provisions cannot resolve the problems, there is an overriding provision in most treaties that allows the relevant countries to invoke dispute resolution measures such as Mutual Agreement Procedures where the government authorities of the countries in dispute will meet with one-another to negotiate a settlement. In the case of the European Union, if a dispute cannot be resolved between the countries involved, the parties concerned have to resort to arbitration.
Large companies would be trading internationally but would argue that they have either no presence or insignificant presence in the countries they operate, and they would legally park their income in tax havens, in countries where the taxation regime is lax, or in countries where the tax rates are very low.In 2015, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development member countries came up with 15 action points to minimise tax avoidance.