Following a final debate between MEPs in the European Parliament plenary session, a majority of MEPs voted on 11 November to pass changes to amend Directive 2013/34/EU, which deals with financial reporting of certain types of undertakings (the EU Accounting Directive). This vote (and the adopted text of the proposal available here) follows the political agreement reached with the Council in June and a further updated text that was agreed in September 2021, available here . The amendments have become known as public country-by-country reporting (pCbCR) requirements.
The agreed changes to the EU Accounting Directive will require multinational groups or standalone undertakings with a total consolidated revenue of at least €750m, over a period of two consecutive financial years, whether headquartered within the European Union or not, to publicly disclose the corporate income tax they pay in each EU Member State plus in each of the countries that are either on the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes (the ‘EU’s blacklist’), or listed for two consecutive years on the list of jurisdictions that do not yet comply with all international tax standards but have committed to reform (the ‘EU’s grey list’).