Transparency’s Tipping Point: The 7th Financial Transparency Conference Peer Pressure: Tax competition and developing economies The World Bank Read about tax ‘competition’ and tax wars here. The U.S. Is a Good Place for Bad People to Stash Their Money The Atlantic Brazil Shuts Down … [Read more...]
Archives for 2017
RB tax avoidance – company calls for public country by country reporting after Oxfam report reveals profit shifting
Oxfam has today released a report on tax dodging by RB, the company formerly known as Reckitt Benckiser and the maker of thousands of well known household products. The report looks at the 2012 restructuring of the company which saw it set up ‘hubs’ in the Netherlands, Dubai and Singapore, all … [Read more...]
Post-Panama Papers sunlight on New Zealand Trusts
UPDATE BELOW, 24/07/2017 If you ever wondered what kind of response to a financial transparency law might indicate a corrupted financial secrecy industry, look no further. We reported recently on what’s been happening to trusts in New Zealand in our Offshore Wrapper (our weekly take on tax justice … [Read more...]
Half measures mean Mauritius will continue to be a tax haven for the developing world
There was news this week that Mauritius has signed the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (MLI). This is an initiative from the OECD to allow countries to take measures designed to stop tax avoidance by multinational companies … [Read more...]
Our July 2017 Spanish language Podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast de julio 2017
Welcome to this month’s latest podcast and radio programme in Spanish with Marcelo Justo and Marta Nuñez, downloaded and broadcast on radio networks across Latin America and Spain. ¡Bienvenidos y bienvenidas a nuestro podcast y programa radiofónica! (abajo en castellano). In the July 2017 … [Read more...]
Links Jul 10
Ecuador lawmakers approve ‘historic’ tax haven law International Investment Cites TJN's chief executive @alexcobham Some UK offshore entities’ beneficial ownership registries start date pushed back International Investment … [Read more...]
G20: Pressure rising on tax haven USA
Whilst the eyes of the world focused on the isolation of the US from the ‘G19’ position on climate change, something remarkable played out elsewhere in the process. Following closely the common EU position that we highlighted a few days ago, the G20 communique devotes important space to tax … [Read more...]
EU-US tax war comes to the G20
The Juncker/Tusk letter of 4 July setting out common positions for the EU at the G20 throws down a direct challenge to the Trump administration, on Tax Justice Network priorities in particular - dealing with tax avoidance, tax evasion and anonymous ownership of companies, trusts and foundations. … [Read more...]
Links Jul 5
UN: Tax competition and corporate tax avoidance "inconsistent" with human rights Global Alliance for Tax Justice Tax transparency in Europe: a dangerous loophole Global Alliance for Tax Justice See also: Tax transparency on the way despite MEPs’ still bowing to big business Oxfam International, … [Read more...]
Recovering Africa’s Stolen Assets: from Jersey to Kenya
An interesting event has come to our attention that we'd like to share, taking place at Chatham House in London. Full event details here. Recovering Africa's Stolen Assets: Lessons from the Windward Trading Case A report by the World Bank’s Stolen Asset Recovery programme found that, while … [Read more...]
Will the G20 ever end the global problem of tax avoidance and tax evasion?
Ahead of the G20 Summit in Hamburg this week our own George Turner has published this op-ed in the German newspaper Die Tageszeitung today. The article discusses why, despite sustained political engagement from world leaders, we are still some way from solving the problem of tax avoidance and tax … [Read more...]
Redistributive hypocrisy: The growing dominance of tax haven USA
We're delighted to bring you a guest blog by Lukas Hakelberg, a researcher from the University of Bamberg - one of our partners in the EC-funded COFFERS project. The blog outlines the motivation and key findings of a study by Lukas and a colleague, Max Schaub. We've been raising the alarm about … [Read more...]
The Offshore Wrapper – 30 June
Welcome to the Offshore Wrapper, our weekly round up of news from the world of tax justice. If you would like to receive the wrapper directly in your inbox every week, sign up to our email list. … [Read more...]
Links Jun 30
Tax competition and corporate tax avoidance 'inconsistent with human rights - UN treaty body Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) Andean region: towards a new fiscal reform agenda for equality and rights Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) See video here, and the report in … [Read more...]
Tax Justice Annual Conference 2017, 5-6 July: Final Programme
#tjn17 GLOBAL TAX JUSTICE AT A CROSSROADS SOUTHERN LEADERSHIP AND THE CHALLENGES OF TRUMP AND BREXIT City, University of London, 5-6 July 2017 The Association for Accountancy & Business Affairs (AABA), City, University of London (CityPERC), and the Tax Justice Network (TJN), are … [Read more...]
