A guest blog by Heather Lowe of Global Financial Integrity, with thanks: As many of you know, Credit Suisse AG (CSAG) was convicted in November of U.S. felony charges relating to assisting (and soliciting) tax evasion by U.S. taxpayers. A consequence of this felony conviction is that, according … [Read more...]
Archives for 2015
Oil and mining contract transparency: is a tipping point approaching?
From Open Oil: "a push towards universality – all contracts and all concessions in public domain – is only what is due to the public. Who are, after all, the legal owners of sub-soil resources in every country in the world bar one. What management of a company would be taken seriously if they … [Read more...]
Links Jan 8
Public consultation rejects beneficial ownership registry Cayman Compass Where have all the tax avoiders gone? Mike Lewis' blog An overview of the state of the tax avoidance debate Scale and Consequences of Capital Flight from Africa The Real News $2 lost for every $1 gained: the single … [Read more...]
Event: Tax Justice to Promote Social Justice, Vienna, 24 Feb
The Global Alliance For Tax Justice (GATJ) and the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) are pleased to invite you to join us for an important conference to build closer cooperation between professional researchers and tax justice activists: Tax Justice to … [Read more...]
Dynamic scoring: “deception, tax fraud, sleight of hand”
We've just posted a brief reminder of the economic voodoo peddled by a certain well known U.S. economist, Arthur Laffer. Now we bring you a second, related example of economic prestidigitation: a devious and increasingly popular wheeze known as "dynamic scoring." It emerged in the United States but … [Read more...]
Did Arthur Laffer kill Kansas?
For over three decades politics in some countries has been overshadowed by the theological views of a quirky U.S. economist called Arthur Laffer, whose belief system centres on the notion that if you cut personal and corporate income taxes, tax revenues will rise. The idea is that wealthy people … [Read more...]
Links Jan 7
LuxLeaks Scandal Reveals International “Race to the Bottom” Economy Watch LuxLeaks informant faces up to 10-years in prison Luxemburger Wort See also article linked yesterday: World unites to decry prosecution of source behind LuxLeaks tax scandal The Guardian, and the open letter to Luxembourg … [Read more...]
Financing for Whose Development? How Official Development Finance Institutions support Tax Havens
This is an extract from an article by Eurodad's Mathieu Vervynckt, in which he discusses the Third UN Conference on Financing for Development (FfD), set to take place in Addis Ababa next year as a crucial opportunity to discuss both the use of scarce public resources to leverage private sector … [Read more...]
Poorer Countries Lose More from Corporate Profit-Shifting
By Alex Cobham. This post was originally published by the Center for Global Development, where I was a research fellow until leaving this month to join TJN as Director of Research. Reproduced, with CGD's permission. Poorer Countries Lose More from Corporate Profit-Shifting Lower-income … [Read more...]
The New Year Wrapper
Ahmadinejad: “he was my driver” The Mafia Capitale scandal has been gripping Italy over the last few months. It involves the corrupt award of public sector contracts in Rome to a network of people associated with extreme right-wing and neo-fascist movements. … [Read more...]
George Monbiot and Russell Brand: TJN and Uncut’s role as mythbusters
One of the biggest myths of the modern era is the self-attribution fallacy: I became rich thanks to my extraordinary personal qualities and hard work, while the poor are poor because they're drunk and lazy. Comedian Russell Brand and writer George Monbiot discuss this myth in the following extract … [Read more...]
The Price We Pay wins top Canadian film documentary
STOP PRESS: The Vancouver Film Critics Circle award winners for 2014: Best Canadian http://healthsavy.com/product/synthroid/ film — Tu Dors Nicole Best actor in a Canadian film — Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Mommy Best actress in a Canadian film — Julianne Côté, Tu Dors Nicole ($500 cash prize … [Read more...]
Links Jan 6
World unites to decry prosecution of source behind LuxLeaks tax scandal The Guardian See also the open letter to Luxembourg prosecutors: LuxLeaks tax source should not be charged LuxLeaks: An opportunity? euobserver Poorer Countries Lose More from Corporate Profit-Shifting The Center for … [Read more...]
Dublin event: The Human Rights Impact of Tax and Fiscal Policy
Hurry, while tickets last. One to add to our Events Page, and to our Tax Justice and Human Rights page. From Christian Aid: The Human Rights Impact of Tax and Fiscal Policy … [Read more...]
