New Asia-Pacific taxation taskforce announced Accountants Daily Mauritius Overtakes Singapore as India’s Top Source of FDI India Briefing Putin Suggests Total Amnesty for Offshore Capital Returning to Russia Sputnik International EU Slows Macedonia Plan for Tax Haven Balkan Insight See … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
Links Dec 3
India has Less Than 1% Info on Black Money, Lots More I Can Offer, Whistle-blower Herve Falciani to NDTV Nigerian Governor Akpabio Named In Shady Possession Of St-Kitts And Nevis Passport Sahara Reporters Several high profile African figures are "economic citizens" of tax havens Africa’s … [Read more...]
Why We Can’t Afford the Rich
"Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu'il a été proprement fait." Le Père Goriot (1835) Honoré de Balzac ["The secret of the great fortunes without apparent cause is a forgotten crime, because it has been properly done."] Columbia University … [Read more...]
Links Dec 2
Open letter to the Heads of State and Ministers of Finance of the East African Community: Redouble efforts to end illicit financial flows and harmful tax incentives in the East African Community East Africa Tax & Governance Network (EATGN) Breaking bad habits: time for @amazonuk to face up … [Read more...]
Vladimir Putin, the KGB and the British and Swiss tax havens
From the New York Review of Books, a look at a book called Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia, by Karen Dawisha. The review itself is fascinating, and for TJN this paragraph is particularly interesting: "Dawisha nevertheless argues that the KGB’s return to power begins not in 2000, when Putin … [Read more...]
A scorecard on UK tax havens: promises, but little progress
Just over a year ago the British Prime Minister David Cameron, whose family has had tax haven interests for many years, tried to whitewash Britain's Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies with a statement saying: "I do not think it is fair any longer to refer to any of the Overseas Territories … [Read more...]
European Parliament must set up a committee of inquiry on tax avoidance
In the wake of the "Luxembourg Leaks" scandal, more than 30 organisations from the Tax Justice Europe network have written to members of the European Parliament strongly supporting a proposal from Green MEPs to set up a stand-alone investigative committee of the European Parliament to tackle … [Read more...]
Tax quotes of the day – Lewis Black, Edmund Burke
Two more, in an occasional series. You can find plenty more on our quotations page. “They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen, because, who the fuck needs them? Or firemen, son of a bitch, it's much more fun watching something burn … [Read more...]
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #42
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most corrupt of them all? This week sees the release of Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perception Index. The report measures perceived levels of corruption in the public sector in 177 countries. Certain countries in Africa, Latin America and … [Read more...]
Links Dec 1
United Nations starts pounding pavement on the road to Addis Ababa Eurodad Today UK oil and mining transparency becomes reality. U.S. take note. Global Witness See also: U.K. Resources Companies Ordered to Disclose Government Payments Bloomberg The tax wars of Europe The Hindu Business … [Read more...]
London protest on Dec 2 to end tax haven secrecy
From Christian Aid, via email (see also this Christian Aid / ActionAid poll (details here) showing that huge majorities think tax avoidance is wrong and that the UK government isn't doing enough about it): Tuesday 2 December: 8:30 am – 9:30 am Christian Aid protest calling for end to tax … [Read more...]
Intermediaries survey – help shape our engagement with the professions
Read The Professions Issue of Tax Justice Focus here. Take part in the survey here. … [Read more...]
Links Nov 26
Leadership needed on tax fairness in Australia The Sydney Morning Herald Multinational tax cases headed for court, Australian Tax Office says Financial Review Microsoft to pay China $140 million for 'tax evasion' Reuters Calls for reform and a resignation over LuxLeaks ICIJ … [Read more...]
CEO: EU Commission gets advice on tax policies from #LuxLeaks tax dodgers
From the Corporate Observatory Europe, an important article entitled Commission gets advice on tax policies from LuxLeaks tax dodgers. It begins: "LuxLeaks documents recently revealed that the consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has created questionable strategies enabling big businesses to … [Read more...]
Tax Justice Focus: The Professions Issue, volume 9, number 3
The latest edition of TJN's newsletter, Tax Justice Focus, is available for download here. … [Read more...]
