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Economists and academics back the Tax Dodging Bill
TJN’s John Christensen joins up with almost 70 other economists and academics in the following letter backing the Tax Dodging Bill proposal published in The Times today: TweetShare
Oxfam calls for World Tax Summit
From the Oxfam blog: The corporate tax rules we live with today are from a by-gone era and remain essentially unchanged since the 1920s, from a time when world trade was less than 1 percent of what it is today, a time when companies “resided” very clearly in one country and “sourced” from another, a time when the digital economy
Read the full article…Greece’s swamp of offshore corruption
From the Guardian’s letter page: Your news, editorial and speculations about Syriza’s victory might now be followed by an analysis of where Greece’s past decades of wealth, present revenues, EU grants, loans and gifts have gone. TweetShare
Financing for Development talks snowed under in New York
29th January 2015 – UPDATE: Here is a copy of the civil society response to the Financing for Development ‘Elements’ paper that acts as the starting point for the first drafting session today in New York. Guest blog from Christian Aid’s Dr Matti Kohonen in New York Snow blizzard was gathering around the UN building just on the eve
Read the full article…UK campaigners call on political parties to adopt tax dodging bill
Today a coalition of 17 UK organisations including TJN, ActionAid, Oxfam, Christian Aid, the NUS and the Equality Trust is launching a campaign to tackle the scandal of corporate ta avoidance in the run-up to the next UK general election in May. TweetShare
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #48
Greece is the word Syriza’s election triumph in Greece has provoked media and financial markets hysteria. Overnight the Euro hit a ten year low against the dollar. Here at Wrapper Towers we have been reflecting on the politics of debt reduction and would like to sprinkle some facts. TweetShare
Luxembourg, Amazon, and the State aid connection
Earlier this month Bloomberg reported that the European Union had stated that: “Luxembourg hastily approved a “cosmetic” tax deal with Amazon.com Inc. in 11 days, allowing the company to shift profits to a tax-free unit. The EU told Luxembourg officials in a letter that the deal, based on a “cosmetic arrangement,” gives the Internet retailer an unfair advantage over competitors and
Read the full article…The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #46
HSBC: the world’s local naughtiest bank? The Lagarde list, a leaked document containing the names of thousands of people with secret bank accounts at HSBC Switzerland, continues to cause problems for the global banking giant. TweetShare
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 will work harder, invest more, employ more labour, and as a result more
Read the full article…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 finance, and the fight against international tax avoidance and evasion.
Read the full article…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. TweetShare
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 from Brand’s Trews series. TweetShare
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 sponsored by the Union of BC Performers) Best supporting actor in a Canadian film — Marc-André
Read the full article…Please contribute to the update of The End of Poverty?
Films play an important part in shaping new understandings about the structural causes of poverty and inequality. In 2007 we participated in the making of The End Of Poverty?, which has enjoyed huge critical success and has been watched by millions of people around the world. The makers of The End of Poverty? – Philippe Diaz and Beth Portello at
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