[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4938 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4938

   To amend the Securities Act of 1934 to require country-by-country 
                               reporting.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 26, 2023

Ms. Pettersen introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Securities Act of 1934 to require country-by-country 
                               reporting.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Disclosure of Tax Havens and 
Offshoring Act''.

SEC. 2. COUNTRY-BY-COUNTRY REPORTING.

    (a) Country-by-Country Reporting.--Section 13 of the Securities 
Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78m) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new subsection:
    ``(t) Disclosure of Financial Performance on a Country-by-Country 
Basis.--
            ``(1) Definitions.--In this subsection--
                    ``(A) the term `constituent entity' means, with 
                respect to a covered issuer, any separate business 
                entity of the covered issuer;
                    ``(B) the term `covered issuer' means an issuer 
                who--
                            ``(i) is a member of a multinational 
                        enterprise group; and
                            ``(ii) the multinational enterprise group 
                        of which the issuer is a member has annual 
                        revenue for the preceding calendar year of not 
                        less than an amount determined by the 
                        Commission to conform to United States or 
                        international standards for country-by-country 
                        reporting; and
                    ``(C) the term `tax jurisdiction'--
                            ``(i) means a country or a jurisdiction 
                        that is not a country but that has fiscal 
                        autonomy; and
                            ``(ii) includes a territory or possession 
                        of the United States that has fiscal autonomy.
            ``(2) Disclosure.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Each covered issuer shall file a 
                report with the Commission that includes information 
                described in subparagraph (B), and any other 
                information required by the Commission, with respect to 
                the reporting period described in subparagraph (C).
                    ``(B) Information required.--The information 
                described in this subparagraph is as follows:
                            ``(i) Constituent entity information.--
                        Information on the constituent entity, 
                        including the following:
                                    ``(I) The complete legal name of 
                                the constituent entity.
                                    ``(II) The tax jurisdiction, if 
                                any, in which the constituent entity is 
                                resident for tax purposes.
                                    ``(III) The tax jurisdiction in 
                                which the constituent entity is 
                                organized or incorporated (if different 
                                from the tax jurisdiction of 
                                residence).
                                    ``(IV) The tax identification 
                                number, if any, used for the 
                                constituent entity by the tax 
                                administration of the constituent 
                                entity's tax jurisdiction of residence.
                                    ``(V) The main business activity or 
                                activities of the constituent entity.
                            ``(ii) Tax jurisdiction.--Information on 
                        each tax jurisdiction in which one or more 
                        constituent entities is resident, presented as 
                        an aggregated or consolidated form of the 
                        information for the constituent entities 
                        resident in each tax jurisdiction, including 
                        the following:
                                    ``(I) Revenues generated from 
                                transactions with other constituent 
                                entities.
                                    ``(II) Revenues not generated from 
                                transactions with other constituent 
                                entities.
                                    ``(III) Profit or loss before 
                                income tax.
                                    ``(IV) Total income tax paid on a 
                                cash basis to all tax jurisdictions.
                                    ``(V) Total accrued tax expense 
                                recorded on taxable profits or losses.
                                    ``(VI) Stated capital.
                                    ``(VII) Total accumulated earnings.
                                    ``(VIII) Total number of employees 
                                on a full-time equivalent basis.
                                    ``(IX) Net book value of tangible 
                                assets, which, for purposes of this 
                                section, does not include cash or cash 
                                equivalents, intangibles, or financial 
                                assets.
                            ``(iii) Special rules.--The information 
                        listed in clause (ii) shall be provided, in 
                        aggregated or consolidated form, for any 
                        constituent entity or entities that have no tax 
                        jurisdiction of residence. In addition, if a 
                        constituent entity is an owner of a constituent 
                        entity that does not have a jurisdiction of tax 
                        residence, then the owner's share of such 
                        entity's revenues and profits will be 
                        aggregated or consolidated with the information 
                        for the owner's tax jurisdiction of residence.
                    ``(C) Reporting period.--The reporting period 
                covered by this paragraph is the period of the covered 
                entity's applicable financial statement prepared for 
                the 12-month period that ends with or within the 
                taxable year of the covered issuer. If the covered 
                issuer does not prepare an annual applicable financial 
                statement, then the reporting period covered by this 
                paragraph is the 12-month period that ends on the last 
                day of the taxable year of the covered issuer.
                    ``(D) Filing deadline.--Each covered issuer shall 
                submit to the Commission a report required under this 
                section on or before the due date (including 
                extensions) for filing that covered issuer's tax return 
                in the tax jurisdiction in which the covered issuer's 
                multinational enterprise group is resident.
                    ``(E) Regulation.--The Commission shall, in 
                consultation with the Commissioner of the Internal 
                Revenue Service and Secretary of the Treasury--
                            ``(i) promulgate regulations carrying out 
                        this subsection that conform to United States 
                        or international standards for country-by-
                        country reporting, including regulations 
                        promulgated by the Internal Revenue Service; 
                        and
                            ``(ii) require disclosure of the accounting 
                        methods used in calculating the information 
                        contained in each report filed pursuant to this 
                        subsection.''.
    (b) Rulemaking.--
            (1) Deadlines.--The Securities and Exchange Commission (in 
        this section referred to as the ``Commission'') shall--
                    (A) not later than 1 year after the date of 
                enactment of this Act, issue a proposed rule to carry 
                out this section and the amendment made by this 
                section; and
                    (B) not later than 18 months after the date of 
                enactment of this Act, issue a final rule to carry out 
                this section and the amendment made by this section.
            (2) Data format.--The information required to be provided 
        by this section shall be provided by the issuer in a report in 
        a machine readable format prescribed by the Commission, and 
        such report shall be made available to the public online, in 
        such machine readable format as the Commission shall prescribe.
            (3) Effective date.--Subsection (t) of section 13 of the 
        Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as added by this section, 
        shall become effective 1 year after the date on which the 
        Commission issues a final rule under this section.
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