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4th Illicit Finance Journalism Programme – November 2014 Course
City University London, Northampton Square, EC1V 0HB 4 November 2014 – 7 November 2014 The Tax Justice Network and the Centre of Investigative Journalism have announced the dates for the fourth Illicit Finance Journalism Programme four day training course at City University London. TweetShare
Jean-Claude Juncker and the rise of extremism
We have previously blogged about the role played by the former Luxembourg prime minister in shaping the rise of tax haven Luxembourg. Europe now faces the prospect that he will be elected the next president of the European Commission this coming week. If this happens, those politicians who vote for Juncker will be directly contributing to the re-emergence of extremist
Read the full article…Amazon and the author who smelled a rat
World famous children’s author Allan Ahlberg has rejected a lifetime achievement award because it is sponsored by the tax-abusing retailer Amazon. Ahlberg, whose many books include The Children Who Smelled a Rat, was due to receive his award at the Booktrust Best Book Awards ceremony last week. Writing to the Bookseller, he explained that he declined the award on principle
Read the full article…Love and Taxes – the live show and forthcoming major motion picture
We at TJN hear endless bleating – mainly from tax abusers and their pet news outlets – about the horrors of tax. We certainly don’t often hear it FOR tax. TweetShare
Tax avoidance: a note to editors
Tax practitioner Noel Hodson has just issued the following notes to editors about the term ‘tax avoidance’: Most media, even the BBC, persist in quoting notorious professional tax-planners, embedded in the establishment, that “tax avoidance is completely legal”. My 50+ years of practical, hands-on case work tells me that elaborate tax schemes, particularly via the 74 tax-havens are illegal in
Read the full article…The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice
Forever in your debt Last week saw news of a major decision from the US Supreme Court on the long running feud between the Government of Argentina and vulture fund, NML Capital. TweetShare
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice
The Offshore Wrapper is written by George Turner Football: a game of two halves – corruption and scandal The World Cup of scandal and corruption rolls on. This week Global Witness has exposed the role of the Brazilian Development Bank, Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social, in funding a number of questionable deals. TweetShare
Unequal Britain: tax system is much less progressive than people believe
More evidence, if this was needed, that people can be fooled most of the time by the repetitive drip, drip feed of tax nonsense coming from much of the media, some parts of academia and think-tanks, and from far too many politicians. TweetShare
Islands (or how to play dirty and get away with it)
We are delighted to be associated with a new play by award-winning Caroline Horton called Islands (or how to play dirty and get away with it). In Caroline’s words: “Islands will be an illuminating, absurd and powerful new show about tax havens, little empires, enormous greed and the few who have it all – yes, your bit too.” We’ve been
Read the full article…From The Namibian: an open letter to De Beers on transfer pricing
FROM TODAY’S EDITION LETTERS AS NAMIBIAN political activists, we are writing to you because we are greatly concerned about your transfer-pricing methods. We know that transfer-pricing occurs when two companies from the same multinational corporation trade with each other. TweetShare
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice
The Offshore Wrapper is written by George Turner The Togo triangle: where stolen Nigerian oil disappears Nigeria: the land of lost opportunity. Billions of dollars from oil revenue has literally been siphoned out of the country. The story – and corruption – has run for decades. TweetShare
Alliance Boots: tax cheats
BOOTS AVOIDING TAXES RISKS PUBLIC HEALTH JOIN WAR ON WANT, UNITE, MEDACT AND CHANGE TO WIN TO PROTEST BOOTS’ TAX AVOIDANCE AND ITS IMPACTS ON PUBLIC HEALTH TweetShare
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice
Did Qatar bribe its way to host World Cup 2022? The UK’s Sunday Times is filled with explosive allegations that Qatar bought the right to host the 2022 World Cup through a series of bribes to FIFA officials. The reports are based on a leak of a database to the paper. TweetShare
Who’s in control – nation states or global corporations?
We probably know the answer to that one, but in raising the question The Guardian’s Gary Younge – always a perceptive commentator – misses out on an important aspect of the question: we, the people, want democratically accountable states in order to raise money and spend it on our behalves to achieve a variety of collective goals (education, health, justice
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