In October 2015, final recommendations on Base Erosion and Profits Shifting (BEPS) were released, setting in motion epochal changes that will impact the global effective tax rate (ETR) of multinational enterprises (MNE) in the coming years.

Country-by-Country Reporting (CbCR) is the first, almost globally adopted output of the BEPS process currently facing MNEs. It raises some potentially far-reaching questions with respect to traditional operating models and supply chain structures, and also affects the future of cross-border dispute resolution. Harnessing the potential upsides and downsides of these and the other evolutions will be a driver of the future ETR of MNEs.

View the five-minute video below, in which McDermott lawyers discuss the implications of Country-by-Country Reporting for MNEs.