How can we effectively tax multi-national corporations (MNCs) to benefit developing countries? This is an increasingly pressing issue in a globalised world in which MNCs frequently avoid or evade tax altogether, thereby undermining the possibility of global tax justice. This question goes to the heart of the trade-off faced by many developing countries between attracting foreign direct investment and getting a fair deal from taxation.

Edmund Valpy FitzGerald is an Emeritus Professor of International Development Finance at Oxford University. Until recently, he served as Head of the Department of International Development at Oxford. Professor FitzGerald is a Commissioner for the Independent Commission on the Reform of International Corporate Taxation alongside other pre-eminent economists including Joseph Stiglitz and Thomas Piketty. He has acted as adviser to a number of governments (including the UK and Mexico), international institutions (including the UN and the OECD) and civil society agencies (including Oxfam).

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