Tax Justice Focus – THE RESEARCH EDITION From the Editors July 18th, 2008 The Research Edition – click here … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
2008 – The Doha edition
Tax Justice Focus, 1st Quarter 2008, Vol. 4, Number 1 – THE DOHA EDITION From the Editors April 7th, 2008 The Doha Edition – click here The first quarter 2008 edition of Tax Justice Focus (TJF) is a special edition focusing on the preparations for the United Nations meeting on Finance … [Read more...]
2007 – The Islands edition
Tax Justice Focus, Fourth Quarter 2007, Vol. 3, Number 4 – THE ISLANDS EDITION From the Editors January 14th, 2008 The Islands Edition – click here The fourth quarter 2007 edition of Tax Justice Focus (TJF) is a special edition on islands, edited by Nicholas Shaxson and John … [Read more...]
2007 – The French edition
Tax Justice Focus, Third Quarter 2007, Vol. 3, Number 3 – THE FRENCH EDITION From the Editor October 5th, 2007 The French Edition – click here to see it In English and En Français The third quarter 2007 edition of Tax Justice Focus (TJF) is a special edition on accountability, … [Read more...]
2007 – Accountability
Tax Justice Focus, Second Quarter 2007, Vol. 3, Issue 2 – ACCOUNTABILITY From the Editor The Accountability Issue – click here The second quarter 2007 edition of Tax Justice Focus (TJF) is a special edition on accountability, co-edited by Nicholas Shaxson and John Christensen. A central … [Read more...]
US multinationals’ offshore cash piles grow $206bn
From Bloomberg: "The largest U.S.-based companies added $206 billion to their stockpiles of offshore profits last year, parking earnings in low-tax countries until Congress gives them a reason not to. … [Read more...]
Q1 2007: INEQUALITY
Tax Justice Focus, Volume 3, Number 1: INEQUALITY From the Editor The Inequality Issue (Click here) The first quarter 2007 edition of Tax Justice Focus is a special edition on inequality. In the editorial, “Trickling Down, or Gushing Up?”, we look at economic theories that inequality … [Read more...]
Links Mar 11
European Parliament gives overwhelming ‘yes’ vote to end secret corporate ownership Eurodad See also: MEPs vote for public registers on company ownership European Voice - But, UK Prime Minister does not want the rules applied to trusts … [Read more...]
Letter on derivatives: stop the offshore race to the bottom
Wall Street banks trade perhaps half of their derivatives activities through foreign banks. For them, foreign jurisdictions are an obvious escape route from U.S. financial regulations. Last June, Marcus Stanley of Americans for Financial Reform wrote: … [Read more...]
Global Witness wins TED prize; Skoll awards
Global Witness, the indefatigable investigators of corruption, tax havens and general monkey business, have been awarded two prestigious awards. They note: … [Read more...]
Bitcoin scandal: the role of Delaware secrecy
We have for many years been describing Delaware as an offshore secrecy jurisdiction (or tax haven) inside the United States. It is not so much tax, as secrecy and laissez-faire corporate governance (and ugly related matters) that are the tiny state's core offerings, along with all that judicial … [Read more...]
The Offshore Wrapper: A week in tax justice
Our weekly Offshore Wrapper, by George Turner The end of decency For years the attitude towards Russia from major offshore financial centres such as the City of London has been: “Give us your money, we don’t care where it comes from.” … [Read more...]
London spin machine tries to rebut NYT “City betrays US” thesis
Following our widely read analysis on Russia, Ukraine, the City of London, and national security - here's another must-read article in the New York Times from the same author, Ben Judah, who wrote the original one we cited. … [Read more...]
Links Mar 7
Swiss parliament relaxes terms for tax data exchange swissinfo "Parliament has approved a legal amendment that tax evaders will not always have to be told if Switzerland sends information about them to other countries." But to what extent is this just lip-service? How do trusts, foundations and … [Read more...]
IMF launches consultation on tax ‘spillover’
In a welcome step, the International Monetary Fund has announced it will be researching the consequences of existing and proposed changes to corporation tax regimes for lower income "source" countries. … [Read more...]
