Lawyers say potential U.S. punishments are more than enough to dissuade companies from complying with European rules.

Such reporting could help to dissuade companies from shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions or those that apply no tax.

Possibly it doesn't: the payments aren't big enough yet to dissuade companies from making Android phones, and it still gets search share.

A key decision awaits the House Republicans' export-boosting BAT, intended to help pay for reforms while dissuading companies from moving assets, profits and jobs abroad.

Threats of being forced to delist and geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China is not dissuading companies from listing on the world's biggest stockmarket.