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Guest blog: Depositors disciplining banks. What’s the impact of scandals?
We’re pleased to share this guest blog from Mikael Homanen, a PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Finance at Cass Business School in the UK. Can depositor (or customer) activism make a real difference? New research presented at the Chicago Booth Stigler Center suggests that banks see significant decreases in deposit growth after experiencing tax evasion, corruption and environmental scandals.
Read the full article…Addressing profit shifting in the mining sector through excessive interest deductions: our advice
The Tax Justice Network has responded to the following call by the OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development: For many resource-rich developing countries, mineral resources present an unparalleled economic opportunity to increase government revenue. Tax base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS), combined with gaps in the capabilities of tax authorities
Read the full article…#LuxLeaks verdict: hope for whistleblowers as Antoine Deltour is acquitted
We’ve always said that the #LuxLeaks whistleblowers Antoine Deltour, Raphaël Halet and investigative journalist Edouard Perrin should never have been charged because the disclosures they were involved in were so obviously in the public interest, helping to expose the industrial scale on which Luxembourg tax authorities were rubber-stamping corporate tax dodging schemes and draining huge amounts of revenue from the
Read the full article…Our May 2018 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, mayo 2018
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 this month’s programme: The use of private data taken from facebook users: what other skeletons do Facebook, Google, Apple
Read the full article…Unhappy meal: tax avoidance still on the menu at McDonald’s
We’re sharing this press release from EPSU, the European Public Service Union which comprises 8 million public service workers from over 265 trade unions. Here’s their joint statement on their new research on McDonald’s, entitled Unhappy Meal report. Today we release a new report on McDonald’s tax practices, focusing on the company’s use of tax avoidance mechanisms in Europe and
Read the full article…Guest blog: Tax incentives – common ground between business and civil society?
Tax incentives – common ground between business and civil society By Oliver Pearce, Oxfam Tax Policy Advisor Tax is a highly contested issue, but there is more common ground than might be thought. A new paper published by the Confederation of British Business (CBI) and development NGOs Action Aid, Christian Aid and Oxfam outlines overlapping perspectives on when and how
Read the full article…Video discussion: ‘Taming Digital Capitalism’ through public country by country reporting
There were some important debates in Brussels recently where Hans Böckler Stiftung held a two-day symposium with the European Trade Union Institute looking at the changes citizens in Europe are facing in the workplace and examining the challenges for the new leaders who will be in place as a result of the May 2019 EU elections. As the Hans Böckler
Read the full article…Tax justice, women and UN human rights conventions: our April 2018 podcast
In this month’s Taxcast: Tax justice, women and UN human rights conventions: how we may be beginning to hold governments to account. Also: we discuss scandal-hit Facebook’s checks on whether overseas influencers are funding political ads in the United States and why they won’t work. And is it time for a new model? How Mark Zuckerberg could become a hero.
Read the full article…Veils of secrecy: enhancing tax and ownership transparency in development projects
We’re sharing here new research from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights which evaluates the role played by a member of the World Bank Group, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in development projects. The full title of their research is Veils of secrecy: evaluating the IFC’s role in enhancing tax and ownership transparency in development projects. On their website the
Read the full article…Our April 2018 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, abril 2018
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 this month’s programme: This month there was an international day against tax havens: as part of that we discuss
Read the full article…Your emails and us: an important notice
New European Union regulations for personal data protection are coming into force on the 25th May 2018. At the Tax Justice Network we’re committed to sharing our ideas and research with a broad global audience, in pursuit of tax justice across the world. We do some of this through our email list of subscribers to whom we send details of the
Read the full article…Edition 3 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast/radio show الجباية ببساطة
Here’s the third edition of our new monthly Arabic podcast/radio show Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة contributing to tax justice public debate around the world. (In Arabic below) Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة is produced and presented by Walid Ben Rhouma It’s available for listeners to download and it’s also available for free to any radio stations who would like to broadcast it.
Read the full article…How come Mauritius is the biggest foreign investor in India?
We’re pleased to share a new study by Suraj Jaiswal for the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability on Foreign Direct Investment in India and the role of tax havens. As their summary of this study says: Governments across the world are trying to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as a policy tool to promote growth, employment, etc. India has
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