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European Commission to Investigate Secret #LuxLeaks Tax Deal
The European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager has announced she is now going to investigate what we hope is the first of many secret tax deals arranged between accountancy firm PwC and the Luxembourg tax authorities. We asked recently along with Simon Bowers of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and John Christensen why the European Competition Commissioner, still hadn’t investigated
Read the full article…Edition 14 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast/radio show, 14# الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the fourteenth edition of our 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 and Osama Diab of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, also an investigative journalist. The programme is available for listeners to download
Read the full article…The #LuxLeaks corporate tax deals – still no investigation? Plus financialisation of ‘aid’ in the Tax Justice Network February 2019 podcast
In Edition 86 of the February 2019 Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast (available on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and other podcast platforms): why hasn’t the European Commission investigated any of the secret tax deals that were exposed by the LuxLeaks whistleblowers where tax authorities gave multi-national companies outrageously low tax rates? Plus ‘aid’ for whom? We discuss the
Read the full article…Fair Tax Week in the UK
We’re sharing this information below from our friends and colleagues at the Fair Tax Mark, who are doing so much great work to celebrate those many businesses which do pay their fair taxes by awarding them the Fair Tax Mark, moving towards a fairer economy for all. Their Fair Tax Week takes place from the 6th – 14th July 2019.
Read the full article…The Tax Justice Network’s February 2019 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, febrero 2019
Welcome to this month’s latest podcast and radio programme in Spanish with Marcelo Justo and Marta Nuñez, free to download 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: A story of two worlds: yet more poor people and more billonaires How some
Read the full article…Why has the European Commission not investigated #LuxLeaks tax deals?
Today Simon Bowers of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists asks a very pertinent question, which you can read in full here. Some of the deals signed behind closed doors, brokered by accountancy firm PwC, known as “tax rulings” — meant some companies were able to pay less than 1 per cent tax in Luxembourg, stripping tax revenue away from
Read the full article…Edition 13 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast/radio show, 13# الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the thirteenth edition of our 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 and Osama Diab of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, also an investigative journalist. The programme is available for listeners to download
Read the full article…Oligopoly Capitalism: economic and democratic threats: the Tax Justice Network’s January 2019 podcast
In Edition 85 of the January 2019 Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast (available on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and other podcast platforms): Naomi Fowler talks to investor and author Jonathan Tepper who’s co-written a book called ‘The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the death of capitalism’ and explore monopolies, the dangers to consumers and citizens, and the suppression
Read the full article…The Tax Justice Network’s January 2019 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, enero 2019
Welcome to this month’s latest podcast and radio programme in Spanish with Marcelo Justo and Marta Nuñez, free to download 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: Is Latin America prepared for the coming global economic storms in 2019? Financialisation –
Read the full article…Edition 12 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast/radio show, 12# الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the twelth edition of our 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 and Osama Diab of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, also an investigative journalist. The programme is available for listeners to download
Read the full article…The gilets jaunes and how NOT to implement an environmental tax: the Tax Justice Network’s December 2018 podcast
In edition 84 of the December 2018 Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast: time’s running out to tackle the climate crisis facing us all. We look at environmental taxes and making them fair, speaking to the authors of new report A Climate of Fairness: Environmental Taxation and Tax Justice in Developing Countries Plus: we discuss the gilets jaunes in
Read the full article…The Tax Justice Network’s December 2018 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, diciembre 2018
Welcome to this month’s latest podcast and radio programme in Spanish with Marcelo Justo and Marta Nuñez, free to download 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 challenges for Mexico’s new president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador: can he fulfill his
Read the full article…Edition 11 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast/radio show, 11# الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the eleventh edition of our 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 and Osama Diab of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, also an investigative journalist. The programme is available for listeners to download
Read the full article…To tackle tax abuse and crime, we must take on the enablers
There is increasing public awareness worldwide of the level of malpractice by (and lack of accountability of) banks, law firms, the offshore magic circle, real estate agents, trust companies, large corporations and so on. Yet the ‘enabler industry’ is mounting a fightback against the modest yet significant transparency obligations imposed on it after Lux Leaks, Swiss Leaks, Panama Papers,
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