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Links Aug 10
World Social Forum 2016 – Tax Justice and Fight against Poverty World Social Forum 2016 – Women & Girls, Equality & Tax Justice World Social Forum 2016 – Disarm finance and achieve tax justice World Social Forum 2016 – Tax Justice & Human Rights Forum World Social Forum 2016 – Campaign Training: Tax Justice & the Extractive Industries World’s Largest
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Experts Quit Panama’s Transparency Committee Over Lack of Transparency ICIJ Developing Nations Seek Tax Body to Curb Illicit Financial Flows Inter Press Service DRC’s largest mine was just sold. And DRC got nothing. Oxfam: The Politics of Poverty How PWYP-Indonesia is Turning Extractives Transparency into Accountability Publish What You Pay New leak reveals Africa’s ‘big men’ aren’t who you think
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Latin American tax clampdown latest threat to Swiss bank accounts Reuters Rio-2016: The Olympic tax binge Outras Palavras (In Portuguese) German state shares Swiss bank details swissinfo Panama Papers: EU Parliament to ask Mossack Fonseca representatives to testify The Parliament Magazine Why India Must Keep This International Tax Reform On Top Of BRICS Summit Agenda Huffington Post India TweetShare
Links Aug 3
LuxLeaks is not over – Luxembourg Prosecutor appeals against LuxLeaks outcome Luxemburger Wort See our blog The #LuxLeaks whistleblowers verdict: our statement On debt and taxation, rich and poor countries are worlds apart The Guardian Mapping global business opinions on human rights openDemocracy See here for resources on tax and human rights Are we entering the era of responsible tax?
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Christian Aid Calls On UK’s Prime Minister To Start Her Tax Haven Clean Up Close To Home One year after Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa, rich countries blocking UN from working on tax, again Financial Transparency Coalition Is India close to passing a law to identify true ownership of corporates First Post Africa and the Panama Papers Geeska
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Secret Offshore Deals Deprive Africa of Billions in Natural Resource Dollars ICIJ “The Panama Papers show politicians and mining, oil and gas interests benefit from secrecy and dubious multimillion dollar transfers” Staunching tax “haemorrhage” from poorest countries United Nations Radio See also our earlier blog: Some countries “lose” 2/3 of exports to misinvoicing “Developed countries preach fair play, but do
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African MPs support push against illicit financial flows Tax Justice Network – Africa Illicit financial inflows and low tax revenue bedevil Africa’s development BDlive New Research Shows Transparency Does Not Negatively Affect Business Competitiveness Transparency International TweetShare
Links Jul 12
Asian Development Bank Updates Policy In Wake Of Global Tax Developments Uganda: Free Zones Authority to Push for Tax Incentives allAfrica / The Observer (Kampala) See also: Visualising Uganda’s (and others’) tax treaties Martin Hearson’s Blog, and our recent blog: Quote of the day – tax incentives as official tax evasion “Hidden Menace: How secret company owners are putting troops
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Revenue Mobilization in the Developing World: Changes, Challenges and Chances Review of International Political Economy Swiss banking sector seeks to enlist Britain for EU negotiations Reuters France, Luxembourg roll out red carpet for post-Brexit business Yahoo News Panama Papers: the biggest leak in history – Guardian Live event TweetShare
Links Jul 5
Poverty amidst plenty: How Africans are robbed of benefits of mineral wealth Pambazuka News Zambia’s New Mining Tax Regime May Fail the Test of Time National Resource Governance Institute Rich landowners are reaping billions from a tax loophole meant to benefit India’s poor farmers Bloomberg TweetShare
Links Jun 30
LuxLeaks: Luxembourg court condemned for guilty verdicts The Parliament See also: Grand dodgy – The good deeds of the Luxembourg leakers do not go unpunished The Economist, Campaigners condemn punishment of Luxleaks whistleblowers who acted in the public interest Global Alliance for Tax Justice, and our earlier blog: The #LuxLeaks whistleblowers verdict: our statement Mossack Fonseca’s US operations under pressure, island
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The Great Trump Tax Mysteries: Is He Hiding Loopholes, Errors, or Something More Serious? Vanity Fair By TJN’s @nickshaxson, author of Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World Join a special “fanzone” in Paris for the match between multinationals and whistleblowers PFJ (In French) Calling on supporters of LuxLeaks whistleblowers Antoine Deltour and Raphaël Halet, and
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Defending public services together! PSI “We need to ensure multinationals pay their fair share of tax and that governments use this revenue to drive public sector growth through investment in universal, quality public services” Opinion for the public hearing of the Finance Committee of the German Bundestag – Impact of tax avoidance and evasion on developing countries TJN Germany Blog
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Call for papers on “Human Rights and Tax in an Unequal World” Global Alliance for Tax Justice LATINDADD’s Reports on Extractive Industry and Tax Avoidance in Latin America via Eurodad June 2016 could be a crucial moment for whistleblowers’ protection Eurodad Still Racing Toward The Bottom? Corporate Tax Incentives in East Africa ActionAid and TJN- Africa TweetShare
Links Jun 17
African Governments Should Harness Taxation Opportunities To Improve Investment In Children TJN – Africa The Panama Papers – what they mean and why they are important for Africa Financial Transparency Coalition India: Here’s What PM Modi Can And Cannot Do About Offshore Black Money Huffington Post India Democracy: What does it have to do with a fair taxation system? Financial
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