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The Offshore Wrapper – Sunday 1 October
Welcome to the Offshore Wrapper, a weekly roundup of news from the world of tax and tax havens. If you want to receive the wrapper in your inbox every week, you can subscribe here. Taxing times lie ahead for President Trump For years, US politicians have debated what to do with the multi-trillion dollar cash pile stashed by US corporates
Read the full article…The Offshore Wrapper – Friday 8 September
Welcome to the Offshore Wrapper, a weekly roundup of news from the world of tax and tax havens. If you want to receive the wrapper in your inbox every week, you can subscribe here. Tax the rich? President Trump’s plans to reform the US tax system have led to a growing debate around the world on the taxation of the
Read the full article…Access to Swiss banking information for developing countries hangs in the balance
The attack on the commitment by Switzerland to share data on bank accounts with some developing countries has failed, for now. However, the issue of which restrictions should be put in place in data sharing is still a live one, opening the door for Swiss politicians to curtail this vital measure to combat corruption and tax evasion. In August we
Read the full article…The Offshore Wrapper – Friday 18 August
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Swiss Politicians seek to block automatic exchange of banking information with developing countries
Could we be seeing a return to the bad old days of Swiss Banking? A right wing party in Switzerland, the Swiss People’s Party, has launched an assault on the automatic exchange of banking information, according to Swiss Daily Newspaper Tages Anzeiger. TweetShare
The Offshore Wrapper – Data havens and new crackdowns on tax avoidance
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Open data for tax justice – designing a new CbCR database
This week, TJN participated in a design sprint in London organised by Open Knowledge International. The purpose of the sprint was to bring together coders and tax justice advocates to start work on building a database for the new country by country reporting data that we hope will be released in the future, if public CbCR is implemented. Below is
Read the full article…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 well known corporate tax havens, and demonstrates the continuing
Read the full article…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 and put them into their existing network of tax treaties without renegotiating those
Read the full article…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 justice. It’s so good we quote it in full below. But
Read the full article…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 evasion. Here’s an English translation of the article: TweetShare
The Offshore Wrapper – 30 June
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UN must defend target to curtail multinational companies’ tax abuse
The Tax Justice Network, The Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation, and the Global Alliance for Tax Justice call on the UN Secretary General to make sure the commitment to action on tax abuses by multinational companies remains part of the new UN Sustainable Development Goals. TweetShare
Questions mount for the SFA
As the mess that is the financial collapse of Rangers Football Club continues to play out in the courts, more evidence emerges of financial foul play by the club in the years leading up to the crash. And that evidence confirms the accuracy of what has been reported here, and the critical questions that the Scottish FA continues to refuse
Read the full article…Event: Making Tax Work for Women in the UK and Globally
On Wednesday 28th June 2017 at 16.30 our very own Liz Nelson will be speaking at an event in London that aims to bring together gender and tax justice advocates to highlight the need for coherent and gender-responsive fiscal policies to safeguard the rights of women and girls both in the UK and globally. The event is being http://healthsavy.com/product/nolvadex/ organised
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