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UN wants to abolish tax havens worldwide Dawn GUE/NGL MEPs – blog on the European Parliament’s Committee of Inquiry into the Panama Papers Deltour: We need EU-level protection for whistleblowers Rudolf Elmer: Multinationals and rich individuals are cheating civil society BNP Paribas executives at the heart of a tax scandal in Argentina Libération (In French) See also: BNP Paribas implicated in
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UN urged to hold conference on abolishing tax havens The Nation Inequality, business and human rights: the new frontier? Open Democracy FACT Coalition Welcomes Rule to Stem Multinational Corporate Tax Avoidance BRICS countries keen on reining in tax-dodging MNCs says India’s Economic Relations Secretary Business Standard Luxembourg in a tricky position Delano “Luxembourg is cooperative only on the surface, but it
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Singapore shuts down 2nd Swiss bank, Falcon, & fines UBS, in crackdown re Malaysian sovereign fund 1MDB scandal swissinfo See also Falcon Bosses Ignored Staff Warnings on 1MDB finews, and (from July 2016) How Malaysia’s 1MDB Fund Scandal Reaches Around the World Bloomberg Swiss banks chasing Asia cash stung by dirty money crackdown The Straits Times Uber’s main UK business
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Australia: Oil and gas tax may raise no extra revenue for decades ABC News See also: Turnbull government called on to explain where Australia’s offshore gas wealth is going The Sydney Morning Herald #Appletax ruling: “the need for a new way of taxing profits” ICRICT / Global Alliance for Tax Justice eBay pays £1.1m UK tax on revenues it told
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Curbing Illicit Financial Flows and dismantling secrecy jurisdictions to advance women’s human rights Global Alliance for Tax Justice Panama Papers honored with a Gold Barlett & Steele Award for Investigative Journalism ICIJ Swiss AG says “serious suspicion” of Swiss banks being involved in alleged Malaysian state fund 1MDB graft Reuters See also: Swiss prosecutors probe suspected $800 million misappropriation from
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G20 finance chiefs to discuss risks to economy, ending secret company ownership Reuters Study: 73% of Fortune 500 Companies Used Tax Havens in 2015 U.S. PIRG See also: Offshore Shell Games 2016 When It Comes to Tax Avoidance, Donald Trump’s Just a Small Fry The New York Times Trump thinks not paying taxes is smart. But it’s a threat to
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The Real Scandal Behind the Panama Papers Vanity Fair Panama has passed a law to implement sanctions vs anyone who calls it a tax haven E&N (In Spanish) Capital mobility: The good, the bad and the ugly The Economist ‘True FDI is an unalloyed benefit. But the growing practice of using offshore investment to avoid corporate tax might make capital
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U.S. Senate’s top tax lawmaker targets corporate offshore profits Reuters Battling Apple and the Giants naked capitalism Pakistan Supreme Court clears way for hearing on Panama Papers Gulf News Europe calls on journalists’ Panama Papers expertise ICIJ See also: Panama Papers: European parliament opens inquiry The Guardian, and Ambition meets reality in EU tax leaks probe EUObserver Canadians in Panama
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Looted funds: Nigeria Labour Congress threatens protest in Switzerland Today “I think we must have a national day to demand for tax justice” Legislators introduce bill to shed more light on US multinationals Financial Transparency Coalition See also: U.S. Bill to require country-by-country reporting Tax Research UK Apple’s Tax Bill: Why EU Should Take Its $14B Bite To The Core
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Ecuador steps up campaign for a UN #Globaltaxbody Global Alliance for Tax Justice How to hide it: inside the secret world of wealth managers The Guardian “They know more about their clients than the clients’ own wives. They are loyal in the face of appalling behaviour. They are the brains behind the most ingenious tax avoidance schemes. And there are
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Al Jazeera Investigates: Stealing Paradise Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has uncovered corruption in the Maldives. Secretly filmed interviews describe how men on mopeds carried millions in cash to the Maldives’ political elite. Gender & Tax, from a union perspective Global Alliance for Tax Justice UK overseas territories could be affected by EU tax crackdown The Guardian “Jersey, British Virgin Islands
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An Intergovernmental UN Tax Body – why we need it and how we can get it Eurodad Taking action for tax justice at World Social Forum 2016 Global Alliance for Tax Justice New report reveals the “dark side” of European Investment Bank funds: How the EU’s bank supports non-transparent investment funds based in tax havens Counter Balance Roundtable discussion: Tax
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How the multinationals do it ABC On multinationals, the Big 4 & tax havens. Interview includes TJN’s Nicholas Shaxson, author of Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World. World’s Biggest Corporations Won’t Pay Taxes at the Olympics telesur Brazil will lose about a billion dollars in revenue thanks to a law that turns the Olympics into a
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Indonesia plans tax haven on two islands near Singapore The Straits Times See also: Tax Haven in Indonesia? Corporate Income Tax Indonesia Slashed? Indonesia Investments, and Read about Tax Wars here Some shell companies sidestep new UK transparency rules Reuters Scotland formally calls on UK to close “tax haven” loophole Herald Scotland ‘Scotland has become a money-laundering factory for Soviet
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Small but not too beautiful: Europe’s micro-countries may be places where people are up to no good, but so are bigger ones The Economist New Zealand Foreign Trusts: the Scandals, the Reforms, and Some Throat-Clearing From the EU naked capitalism Joseph E. Stiglitz and Mark Pieth: Why We Left the Panama Commission Time Panama Papers: Iceland calls elections six months
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