Episodes

  • PCbCR: Congratulations, You're Transparent Now!
    May 13 2026

    For years, your country-by-country data sat in a government database that nobody read. That's over. The EU and Australia now require the same jurisdiction-level revenues, profits, and tax figures to be published on the open internet — in machine-readable formats explicitly designed for automated analysis. In this episode, we break down what's actually required, who's caught by thresholds they didn't see coming, why hub entity selection in Europe can make or break your compliance strategy, and what it means that a journalist can now write one script and fish for headlines across every multinational's filing simultaneously. The data is what it is. The question is whether you see your own story before someone else tells it for you.


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    32 mins
  • The International Emergency Economic Podcast — SCOTUS Strips White House of Its Favorite Trade Weapon
    Feb 20 2026

    The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that IEEPA does not authorize presidential tariffs. Roberts held that "regulate … importation" doesn't include the power to tax — a power the Constitution reserves to Congress. The ruling invalidates the reciprocal and drug-trafficking tariffs but leaves Section 232/301 duties intact. Refund exposure may top $175B. The administration vows to reimpose tariffs under other statutes, but those tools are narrower, capped, and require formal investigations IEEPA never demanded.


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    18 mins
  • 15.5% and Chill: India Finally Makes the Safe Harbor Worth Taking
    Feb 19 2026

    India just collapsed four safe harbor categories into one, cut the margin to 15.5%, and raised the threshold to ₹2,000 crore — which means the annual benchmarking fight that has defined Indian TP compliance for two decades might actually be over for most IT services captives. But "streamlined" is not "free," and the price of certainty includes a margin above arm's length, secondary adjustment obligations, and surrendering your right to MAP. This article explains what changed, what it costs, what still applies, and why India decided now was the moment to stop auditing its way to an answer everyone already knew.


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    17 mins
  • Substance Called—CRA Wants Its Residual Back: Bill C-15, OECD delineation, and the 30-day documentation squeeze
    Jan 23 2026

    CRA’s been aggressive for years—now Canada wants OECD-style “actual conduct” baked into the statute. Bill C-15 shrinks the doc clock to 30 days and makes “contracts say” a weaker defense when reality says otherwise. If your residual lives offshore but decisions live in Canada, expect the phone to ring.


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    17 mins
  • B.O.G. (Bazookas Over Greenland): The EU's Nuclear Option
    Jan 20 2026

    The EU's Anti-Coercion Instrument—nicknamed the "trade bazooka"—lets Brussels retaliate against economic bullying without unanimous member state approval. Adopted in 2023, it authorizes tariffs, procurement bans, IP restrictions, and financial market exclusions against countries weaponizing trade to influence EU policy.

    Built after Trump's 2018 tariffs and China's pressure on Lithuania, it's now facing its first real test: US threats over Greenland. The legal case looks clear—using tariffs to obtain territory is textbook coercion. But with $1.3 trillion in annual trade at stake, the political will to pull the trigger remains uncertain. Deterrence only works if your adversary believes you'll act.

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    16 mins
  • Amount B: The Ghost of Transfer Pricing Simplification Lives
    Jan 16 2026

    Amount B promised to simplify transfer pricing for routine distribution—a genuine problem consuming six-figure fees on 3% margin transactions. Instead, it haunts the international tax system as a specter of what could have been. The 2025 OECD Model Convention builds elaborate dispute resolution infrastructure for a framework that, per France's July 2025 guidance, "no jurisdiction meets the conditions" to trigger. Developed economies won't implement domestically; covered jurisdictions haven't adopted. Only the US breathed life into it via Notice 2025-4—while simultaneously repudiating the Global Tax Deal. The ghost of transfer pricing simplification lives. It just hasn't found a body yet.


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    13 mins
  • OECD's P2 Side By Side Package : It's Not You, It's Your UTPR
    Jan 14 2026

    The US and Pillar Two were never going to be a perfect match. After a threatened tax war, a last-minute G7 deal, and a "revenge tax" that got pulled days before passage, the two systems have agreed to coexist—awkwardly. On January 5, 2026, the OECD made it official: US-parented multinationals can elect out of IIR and UTPR starting this year. But don't cancel your compliance subscriptions just yet. QDMTTs still apply, 2024–2025 filings are still due, and the GIR still needs to be filed. In this episode, we break down what Side-by-Side actually means for US MNEs, why transfer pricing is now your primary Pillar Two battleground, and what happens if you lose an audit in a QDMTT jurisdiction. The honeymoon is over. The paperwork isn't.


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    39 mins
  • Josh Post Explains OBBBA 's Impact on BEAT
    Aug 26 2025

    Analysis of the how BEAT changes under the OBBA.

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    12 mins