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Why Responsible Tax
Key Themes
- Societal impacts of Tax Governments and world markets require a certain amount of tax revenue to function.
- Digital Taxation Digital goods and services and their potential impact on evasion, avoidance and tax morale.
- Corporation Tax Most corporations recognize the important role they play in contributing to society.
- Environmental Taxation Tax is being seen as increasingly important in the environmental agenda.
- Governance & Tax Transparency What tax strategies are being followed by companies globally?
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John Thornhill

Innovation Editor

Financial Times

John Thornhill is the Innovation Editor at the Financial Times (FT) writing a regular column on the impact of technology. He is also the founder of the FT125 forum, which holds monthly events for senior business executives, and host of Tech Tonic, the FT’s weekly podcast on technology.

John was previously deputy editor and news editor of the FT in London. He has also been Europe editor, Paris bureau chief, Asia editor, Moscow correspondent and Lex columnist.

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Digital Taxation

Data as a commodity

If designed correctly, a form of tax paid in data could not only benefit the public sector and help improve government services, it could also stimulate a new wave of innovation.Data companies are set to grow increasingly rich and powerful. New-generation tech companies are particularly elusive entities to tax. Movement towards partial payment of taxes in data rather than money...