Joe Stanley-Smith

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Joe manages ITR’s online and print coverage, and the publication’s events worldwide. He covers a range of tax issues affecting multinational corporations, particularly indirect tax matters and case studies.

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France and the US clash over digital service tax plans

The US has ramped up its opposition to France’s digital services tax (DST) by opening an investigation into it, but French senators have defiantly approved the so-called ‘GAFA’ tax anyway.

Joe Stanley-Smith, July 12 2019
Companies measure tax departments on their ability to cut risk, not effective tax rates

Managing tax risk is the most important metric by which tax departments are measured, with the more traditional target of lowering the company’s effective tax rate being less important to tax heads. However, CEOs seem to know little about tax KPIs and how, or why, they are chosen.

Joe Stanley-Smith, July 10 2019
Out with the old, in with the new

International Tax Review, founded in 1989, is three years older than me – and we’re both on the move this month.

Joe Stanley-Smith, July 10 2019
OECD won’t rush ICAP expansion despite scheme’s popularity

The OECD’s Achim Pross says his ultimate aim is to expand the International Compliance Assurance Programme (ICAP), but companies may be disappointed to learn that it could be a relatively slow process.

Joe Stanley-Smith, July 10 2019
Case study: Shell’s participation in ICAP

Danny Houben, project lead for Shell’s ICAP team, talks to International Tax Review about how his company got ready to participate in the OECD’s International Compliance Assurance Programme (ICAP).

Joe Stanley-Smith, July 10 2019
Case study: Repsol’s participation in ICAP

Rocío Bermúdez, tax global practices & transfer pricing senior manager at Repsol, spoke to ITR about her company’s participation in the first pilot of the International Compliance Assurance Programme.

Joe Stanley-Smith, July 10 2019