Luxleaks committee demands overhaul of EU tax rules EUObserver LuxLeaks panel banks on voter rage Politico Benefits of 'double Irish' replacement tax in doubt Irish Independent Ireland is not paying ample tax — look at Danish model Irish Examiner How the Rich Can Keep Their Homes, … [Read more...]
Archives for 2015
Links Jul 30
International Tax Justice Academy: Financing Africa´s economic development Global Alliance for Tax Justice Rich Nations Reject Global Tax Body allAfrica / The Observer (Kampala) See also earlier blog: Global tax body: “After 3 days of bullying, developing countries were run over” UBS Deal … [Read more...]
The Amartya Sen Prize Contest for New Work on Tax Justice
Academics Stand Against Poverty, the Yale Global Justice Program, and Global Financial Integrity invite submissions of original essays of ca. 7,000 to 9,000 words on the intelligent use of incentives toward curtailing corporations’ use of tax evasion and avoidance, abusive transfer pricing and all … [Read more...]
Is it game over for money laundering in London’s property market?
Cross-posted from Finance: Uncovered Today, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom announced that the UK will publish information on property owned by foreign companies. In a speech in Singapore David Cameron said: “The UK must not become a safe haven for corrupt money from … [Read more...]
Links Jul 28
How tax havens are surviving Economia Cites TJN's Markus Meinzer How shedding light on company ownership will help beat financial crime The Guardian Moving Toward Exposing Corporate Secrecy in World Bank Contracting Global Witness Puerto Rico debt crisis: austerity for residents, but tax … [Read more...]
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #68
Insurance industry runs for cover The global insurance industry is increasingly worried by the G20’s attempt to improve multinationals’ tax compliance. Last week, the colourful International Underwriting Association put out a press release warning members of the problems that will be caused by … [Read more...]
Finance: Uncovered – financial investigative journalism training course
The Tax Justice Network and the Centre of Investigative Journalism are delighted to put out a call to journalists, campaigners and academics to attend our highly regarded five-day financial investigative journalism training course in London. The dates for our next training will be: 16 November … [Read more...]
Links Jul 23
U.N. hopes 'tax inspectors without borders' will combat tax dodging Reuters UK: Plans for new 'special measures' for tax-avoiding companies STEP See also: Criminal charges loom over facilitating tax evasion Financial Times Mystery on Baker Street: Brutal Kazakh official linked to £147m … [Read more...]
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #67
It’s a rich countries’ world The big event of the last week has been the UN Financing for Development (FfD) conference in Addis Ababa. Its purpose is to raise finance to reduce poverty in developing countries to meet new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These SDGs will replace the … [Read more...]
Links Jul 20
Beneficial Ownership and Transparency Panel – The Debriefing Taxlinked.net Panel includes TJN's research director Alex Cobham Reactions to the Addis Ababa Action Agenda Global Alliance for Tax Justice See also our earlier blog: Global tax body: “After 3 days of bullying, developing countries … [Read more...]
Will the patent box break BEPS?
By Alex Cobham, our research director: first posted at Uncounted. The UK has successfully defended the 'patent box' against the charge that it is a major avenue for multinational corporate tax abuse. Now everybody wants one, even though the evidence suggests that only multinationals will … [Read more...]
The Tax Justice Network Podcast, July 2015
In the July 2015 Taxcast: in a special extended programme we look at the crisis in Greece and ask whatever happened to European unity? Also: we discuss the European Parliament’s vote for multinational corporations to report their activities on a public, country by country basis: the push to give … [Read more...]
Global tax body: “After 3 days of bullying, developing countries were run over”
The Third International Conference on Financing for Development just held in Addis Ababa has held negotiations for an internationally agreed position to support the post-2015 development agenda. One of the key areas of dispute this year was international tax. More specifically, TJN and others … [Read more...]
Links Jul 15
Let's fix tax and fund development AVAAZ petition Latest posts from the Global Alliance for Tax Justice: Privatisation policies a major concern at FfD3 Snapshots: FfD3 in Addis Ababa Global Tax Body: in everyone’s interest How should the intergovernmental tax body be designed? Addis … [Read more...]
Quote of the day – Africa hit by global tax intrigues
Here's our quote of the day, via the Financial Transparency Coalition: “African nations are at the epicenter of the crisis of illicit financial flows, yet they are not even in the room when decisions are being made,” said Alvin Mosioma, Executive Director of the Tax Justice Network Africa. “A … [Read more...]
