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Award-winning coverage from the FT and ProPublica which dissects the battle by banks and companies to preserve tax and save them billions of dollars
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Barclays’ tax deals face US scrutiny
The IRS is set to square off with Bank of New York Mellon in court in the first of several lawsuits over deals the UK lender structured for banks
Analysis: Global taxation, fiscal frustrations
A clampdown on a complex tax structure used by banks poses a test of US efforts to curb cross-border schemes. By Megan Murphy and Jeff Gerth
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Day one
Tax wars: A fight worth billions
US banks’ deals with Barclays come under scrutiny, write Vanessa Houlder, and Megan Murphy of the FT and Jeff Gerth of ProPublica
Big banks targeted by IRS on tax breaks
Banks’ cross-border financial transactions are worth billions of dollars in tax benefits, finds joint investigation by the Financial Times and ProPublica
AIG “a pioneer” in tax credit deals
Lawsuit involves transactions of more than $2bn in financing with foreign banks that resulted in $62m in tax credits
Day two
Tax wars: the accidental billion-dollar break
A simple rule meant to cut paperwork for US companies has grown into one of the biggest multinational tax breaks
Tax policymakers consider global crackdown
OECD experts focus on companies’ ‘tax arbitrage’ tactics that exploit differing treatments between countries
Taxing problem of foreign credits
With the shift in US policy now evident and support among some EU member states, there has never been a better opportunity to move towards the goal of a harmonised tax base
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Tax wars: Looking at STARS
How banks and companies have used the tax system to their own advantage
Tax wars: The documents
Browse the database of documents, drawn from court filings and publicly available documents relating to the FT-ProPublica tax investigation.
