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#ParadisePapers: The onshore heart of the offshore industry
We’re sharing this blog in its entirety from Icelandic journalist Sigrun Davidsdottir‘s excellent Icelog. The Paradise Papers emphasises, yet again, that the damaging effect of offshore is much more pervasive that robbing countries of tax. Offshore creates a two-tier business environment, hiding ownership and in general throwing an opaque veil over the offshored part, thus undermining competition, regulation and ultimately
Read the full article…#ParadisePapers: residency for sale to the rich and famous
Among the scandals exposed by the Paradise Papers is that of residency for sale, something I covered just last month (along with passports for sale) as a special feature in our monthly podcast and radio show, the Taxcast, which you can listen to below. The name Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll showed up in leaked Paradise Papers documents. Like many other
Read the full article…Master of Tax Course: Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators
We’d like to share the details of a fascinating course for those working on tax issues within the public and private spheres in Europe. It’s run by the COFFERS project team. COFFERS (Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators) is an EU Horizon 2020 Project. We’re sharing the details from the news section of their website here: TweetShare
Passports and residency for sale in our October 2017 podcast
In this month’s Taxcast we look at the booming business of passports and residency for sale, and why it should worry us all. Also: even the IMF now advocates wealth taxes to combat inequality, yet governments around the world – most recently President Macron of France – are going in the opposite direction despite all the evidence that it’s a
Read the full article…Our October 2017 Spanish language Podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast de octubre 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 October 2017 programme: The presidential elections in Chile: the Chilean model and tax at the heart of the
Read the full article…Podcast: A New Vision for the British Economy, a Taxcast Extra
According to the Institute for Public Policy Research’s Commission on Economic Justice report called Time for Change: A New Vision for the British Economy, we need a “fundamental reform of the British economy on a scale comparable with the Atlee reforms of the 1940s and the Thatcher revolution of the 1980s.” Like many so-called developed economies around the world, the
Read the full article…The Dutch government cuts its corporate tax rate…
The new Dutch government is to announce that it will cut its corporate tax rate according to leaked details of the current round of coalition talks. This move is the equivalent to the country jumping into the race to the bottom pool with both feet. We’ve always highlighted the false narrative behind the race to the bottom tax ‘competition’ on
Read the full article…Tax Justice video: How can we avoid another crisis? Expert panel discussion
In this video we hear fascinating presentations and discussion from an expert panel on how another global financial crisis can be avoided, ten years after the first. They focus on the UK, not only on the financial sector itself and the finance curse, but also on the role of the wider financial system, considering a range of factors including debt
Read the full article…European Commission orders Luxembourg to claim back 250 million in taxes from Amazon – TJN Reaction
There are two very welcome pieces of tax justice news today. Firstly, the European Commission has ordered the tax haven of Luxembourg to recover 250 million euros in taxes from Amazon, finding that the benefits extended to the company amount to illegal state aid. The support Amazon received, allowed it a competitive advantage over domestically located retailers. In her announcement
Read the full article…Tax justice in the Arab world: new research
We’re pleased to be able to share the recent work of the Arab NGO Network for Development, a regional network in 12 Arab countries. They’ve released research (available in English here and in Arabic here) which assesses tax systems in a number of Arab countries from an economic and social justice perspective (focusing in particular on Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan and
Read the full article…Brexit and Corporate Welfare: ‘take back control’?
It’s an ill-wind that blows no one any good, as they say. There was a call that really seemed to resonate with those British voters who opted for their country to leave the European Union in the referendum: ‘take back control’. And who doesn’t want to do that? But as Dr Kevin Farnsworth of Corporate Welfare Watch points out in
Read the full article…The great escape: how tax havens continue to undermine new transparency measures: guest post
We’re pleased to share this blog from Senior Policy Advisor at Oxfam Novib, Francis Weyzig, originally published here on how tax havens continue to undermine the OECD’s Common Reporting Standard, an information standard for the automatic exchange of tax and financial information on a global level. The first exchanges take place this month, but tax havens have other devices up their sleeve,
Read the full article…Hurricanes, disaster capitalism, bitcoin and over-reliance on unhelpful economic measures: our Sept 2017 podcast
In edition 69 of our monthly podcast, the September 2017 Taxcast we look at our over-reliance on unhelpful economic measures like Gross Domestic Product and how it constrains us. Also: we discuss hurricanes, tax havens and disaster capitalism the bitcoin bubble – China may be closing its doors on it for the moment but tax havens like Switzerland are very
Read the full article…4 million Canadians form a new Coalition for Tax Fairness
Campaigns for tax justice are gathering pace around the world. Tax consciousness is taking its place at the heart of political debate, where it belongs. We’re pleased to share this week’s news of the newly formed Coalition for Tax Fairness, which is made up of groups representing over 4 million Canadians to support more government action on tax reform. TweetShare
Our September 2017 Spanish language Podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast de septiembre 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 September 2017 programme: Is Argentina turning itself into a tax haven? Peru and the Brazilian scandals of the
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