Update: see Tax Research article entitled Tax haven ownership of UK property might cost £2 billion year in tax avoidance - using some of the FT data. The current top story on the Financial Times website (at least at 8am UK time) is entitled Tax haven buyers set off property alarm in England and … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
Did Messi hide behind offshore structures in UK, Switzerland, Uruguay and Belize?
Last week our German colleagues reported on the investigations into Lionel Messi's complex offshore web (German version here, English here). Now Global Witness has issued the following: According to a Spanish prosecutor’s document, Lionel Messi’s alleged multi-million euro tax evasion scheme … [Read more...]
Links Jul 31
Vulture Funds: The Lawsuit Against Argentina And The Challenge They Pose To The World Economy CEFID-AR A view from Argentina. See the original version in Spanish here. Luxembourg tax regime: Under siege Financial Times (paywall) "The low-tax system that has brought great prosperity to the … [Read more...]
Taxing Men and Women: new report on gender and tax justice
Hot on the heels of our announcment earlier this week of the launch of Women for Tax Justice, Christian Aid have now published a report titled Taxing Men and Women: why gender is crucial for a fair tax system. … [Read more...]
Links Jul 30
Go after bigwig tax cheats The Jamaica Gleaner Indian Government revamps I-T tech for overseas tax information sharing The Times of India The EU Should Beware Of Russian Interest In Balkan Banks Forbes Intriguing story involving the tactics of shell companies and "puppet" frontmen. … [Read more...]
Links Jul 29
Banks Cash In on Inversion Deals Intended to Elude Taxes Dealb%k See also: A Bipartisan Approach to Stopping Corporate Expatriations The Tax Analysts Blog, and Obama Involves Ireland In 'Unpatriotic' Inversion Claim Tax-News Spanish union plans 'tax-haven' protest in Gibraltar The … [Read more...]
UK government on Swiss tax deal: TJN was right
Should conservationists continue to dodge the issue of tax dodging?
That's the headline of a useful new article published by Jonathan Hanson and David McNair in the journal Oryx (published by Fauna & Flora International), which you can download without a subscription. The short article looks at the links http://pharmacy-no-rx.net/topamax_generic.html between … [Read more...]
Tax Us If You Can – the Hebrew edition
We are delighted to announce that Tax Us If You Can, one of our flagship publications introducing and explaining tax justice, has been translated into Hebrew. It is available here, and you'll be able to access it permanently on our reports page. The translation was written by TJN Israel at the … [Read more...]
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #26
Maverick puts corporate inversions in the firing line Mark Cuban, the billionaire American investor and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, took to Twitter last week to say he would be dumping shares in any company that moves offshore for tax purposes. … [Read more...]
Links Jul 28
The DGI of Uruguay, together with the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information and the CIAT, promote a regional sharing of experiences on Information Exchange Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT) Uruguay news: authorities concerned about “illegal activity” in free … [Read more...]
The Spirit Level – new documentary film coming
From The Spirit Level, a tantalising trailer for a forthcoming documentary film about inequality. As they note: "The Spirit Level tells the story of how the gap between rich and poor has risen to unprecedented levels, under our noses. But does it matter? We've be interweaving stories from … [Read more...]
Delaware corporate secrecy and crime: a long-awaited debate begins
A fascinating blog from Global Witness: "Last November, a former special agent for the Treasury Department, John Cassara, wrote an op-ed for the New York Times with the headline “Delaware, Den of Thieves?” Cassara described how the state of Delaware (along with Wyoming and Nevada) has become … [Read more...]
On why being tough on unproven claims is both smart and right
We always appreciate the opportunity to discuss our research work since constructive criticism allows us to improve and clarify our views. This is the case with a couple of recent blogs by Mick Moore of the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) on 18 July, one entitled “Tax Justice … [Read more...]
Conference Alert! International Tax Avoidance, Tax Evasion and Tax Justice
Please see the details for an exciting conference being hosted by the University of Barcelona. For those interested in attending please contact the organisers directly using the details at the bottom of this page. … [Read more...]
