Nigeria calls on UK anti-corruption summit to back registers of ownership The Guardian A month after Panama Papers, South Africa commits to end anonymous companies Financial Transparency Coalition, TJN-Africa, & the Economic Justice Network LuxLeaks trial Deltour 'proud' to have advanced … [Read more...]
Archives for 2016
The Economist – How to crack a shell
We love this cartoon from this week's edition of The Economist, which comes from a lengthy article about the forthcoming anti-corruption summit in London. … [Read more...]
Links May 5
UN urges countries to stem tide of firms profit-shifting to tax havens The Guardian See also: Companies put $221 billion into low-tax jurisdictions in 2015: U.N. Reuters European Central Bank has not sought access to Panama Papers Reuters France's trust ownership registry to be opened to the … [Read more...]
Lessons from Iceland, where offshore created an onshore bubble free of rules and regulations
Lessons from Iceland, where offshore created an onshore bubble free of rules and regulations A guest blog by Sigrún Davíðsdóttir In a matter of a few years tiny Iceland became the world’s most ‘offshored’ country, both proportionally in terms of the number of clients the banks “sent offshore,” and … [Read more...]
Links May 3
India's Experience with Exchange of Information Agreements CBGA Missing Tax: Real Consequences - Public Services International May Day Statement Global Alliance for Tax Justice Tax & Human Rights advocacy tool (second in series) Global Alliance for Tax Justice How Nigeria’s lucrative … [Read more...]
Links May 2
How Barclays turned a billion profit into a tax loss Reuters By booking proceeds via Luxembourg ... LuxLeaks trial: refusal of EU Commissioner Vestager to give evidence is a poor show Sven Giegold #PanamaPapers: How ex-Nigerian minister bought two penthouses in Panama for N837million … [Read more...]
Tax Justice Focus – The Corruption Issue
As Britain prepares to host a global Corruption Summit in London next week, the Panama Papers have raised awkward questions about the country's role as an enabler of transnational organised crime. Meanwhile evidence is emerging that ordinary people in Britain no longer accept the elites' version of … [Read more...]
Tax haven Jersey – the North Korea connection
Recently, in The Guardian: "Jersey, for example, offers a stable political and fiscal environment along with strong, internationally recognised regulation and financial expertise. Jersey has no secrecy laws but respects client confidentiality. Furthermore, Jersey is a co-operative jurisdiction … [Read more...]
On Luxembourg’s contribution to financial instability
Since the global financial crisis erupted we've been running a web section called tax havens & financial crisis - which looks at the risks that tax havens pose to financial stability. Perhaps the strongest thread running through this page is the fact that tax havens provide escape routes … [Read more...]
Links Apr 28
Panama Papers: ICIJ To Release Searchable Online Database of Data OCCRP Deltour in the dock The Economist See also our earlier blog: In the dock: Antoine Deltour, Edouard Perrin – or Luxembourg? France backs defendant as LuxLeaks trial starts BBC Panama's finance minister faces French … [Read more...]
Links Apr 26
LuxLeaks trial to be whistleblower showcase euobserver See also our earlier blog In the dock: Antoine Deltour, Edouard Perrin – or Luxembourg? Whistleblowing International Network calls on PricewaterhouseCoopers to withdraw its complaint against LuxLeaks whistleblower Public Concern At … [Read more...]
Event: Illicit financial flows after ‘Panamania’: Seizing the moment
The first evening of our annual research workshop at City University will feature a special public event, jointly organised with the Royal African Society, on the policy implications of the Panama Papers, and the future of financial secrecy. Thursday, 28 April 2016 - 6:00pm to … [Read more...]
In the dock: Antoine Deltour, Edouard Perrin – or Luxembourg?
Who is in the dock? The whistleblowers? Or the tax haven of Luxembourg and PWC, the multinational that has been behind this trial? … [Read more...]
Links Apr 25
Tell Luxembourg: Don’t jail whistleblower “heroes” Global Alliance for Tax Justice See the article for support websites for whistleblower Antoine Deltour and French journalist Edouard Perrin. In our April 2016 Podcast, we ask why protections for whistleblowers are being eroded and what it says … [Read more...]
TJN Annual Discussion Workshop on Corruption and the Role of Tax Havens – programme
Discussion Workshop Corruption and the Role of Tax Havens #tjn16 City University, London, 28th – 29th April 2016 Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre, Northampton Square EC1V 0HB FINAL PROGRAMME … [Read more...]
