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How Barclays turned a billion profit into a tax loss Reuters By booking proceeds via Luxembourg … LuxLeaks trial: refusal of EU Commissioner Vestager to give evidence is a poor show Sven Giegold #PanamaPapers: How ex-Nigerian minister bought two penthouses in Panama for N837million Premium Times Pakistan: Panama trail Dawn ‘Establishing wrongdoing through a ‘forensic audit’ will not be an
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Panama Papers: ICIJ To Release Searchable Online Database of Data OCCRP Deltour in the dock The Economist See also our earlier blog: In the dock: Antoine Deltour, Edouard Perrin – or Luxembourg? France backs defendant as LuxLeaks trial starts BBC Panama’s finance minister faces French counterpart in Paris over tax spat Reuters 4 big obstacles to the elimination of tax havens
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LuxLeaks trial to be whistleblower showcase euobserver See also our earlier blog In the dock: Antoine Deltour, Edouard Perrin – or Luxembourg? Whistleblowing International Network calls on PricewaterhouseCoopers to withdraw its complaint against LuxLeaks whistleblower Public Concern At Work CSO voices: Financing for Development April 2016 Global Alliance for TaxJustice How to get inequality on the global policy agenda Open
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Tell Luxembourg: Don’t jail whistleblower “heroes” Global Alliance for Tax Justice See the article for support websites for whistleblower Antoine Deltour and French journalist Edouard Perrin. In our April 2016 Podcast, we ask why protections for whistleblowers are being eroded and what it says about the state of our democracy. Former PwC employees face trial over role in LuxLeaks scandal
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‘Global tax collaboration platform’ yet another distracting measure Global Alliance for Tax Justice “An inclusive UN global tax body is the only real solution to broken international system” Measuring illicit flows in the SDGs Deliver2030.org By TJN’s research director @alexcobham LuxLeaks triak: Whistleblowers pay a price for transparency CCFD-Solidaire(In French) Support Antoine Deltour here. Luxembourg Criticised Over LuxLeaks In Press
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Event on 26 April: S&D Conference: Together for Tax Justice: Why EU tax policy matters for developing countries Developing countries left out of global tax decisions Eco-Business An obvious solution for offshore: Transparency Economía Crítica (In Spanish) UK’s Chancellor Osborne Exempts Members of Parliament, Other “Politically Exposed Persons” From Money Laundering Oversight naked capitalism Germany: Are things moving now? The
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Winners announced of 2016 Tax Justice and Human Rights Essay Competition See our blog post on the competition here. Friedrich List and the pre-history of Modern-Day Competitiveness Thinking Fools’ Gold – rethinking competition How Ghana started but failed to remain a tax haven Ghana Business News Nigeria loses $2.9bn annually to tax incentives – ActionAid National Mirror Offshore assets belong
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Press release: The world needs a United Nations Global Tax Body now Global Alliance for Tax Justice “The most equitable way to create a fairer global tax system.” Oxfam report: The IFC and tax havens Global Alliance forTax Justice “51 of the 68 companies that were lent money by the World Bank’s private lending arm in 2015 to finance investments
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LuxLeaks trial: “Deltour regrets nothing” Luxemburger Wort See also our blog: Will Antoine Deltour become a prisoner of conscience? Panama Papers: Is the U.S. giving Mossack Fonseca a Pass? Newsweek “There’s an old rule to conducting criminal raids for authorities who would, frankly, rather not find anything…” HSBC risks losing US banking licence as pressure mounts over Panama Papers
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What the Panama Papers Mean for Global Development Inter Press Service The Panama Papers: Working Towards A Solution Huffington Post Canada Cites @nickshaxson‘s book Treasure Islands: Tax Havens And The Men Who Stole The World Broken at the top: How America’s dysfunctional tax system costs billions in corporate tax dodging Oxfam See also: US corporations have $1.4tn hidden in tax
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‘A system of privilege and benefits’: is a global tax body needed? The Guardian Panama Papers and the broken global tax system ActionAid UK “It is the world’s poorest people who are paying the price.” ActionAid: 2016 Make Tax Fair Everywhere Speaker Tour Activists from Africa & Latin America visit Europe Panama Leak Spurs Global Zeal to Crack Shell Companies,
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After ‘Panama Papers’ leak, UN expert calls for end of financial secrecy to halt illicit fund flows UN News Centre Panama Papers Shows Yet Again Why We Need An Intergovernmental Tax Commission In The UN Huffington Post Counting The Cost – Panama Papers: Inside The Shadowy World of Tax Havens The Global Herald How a US president and JP Morgan
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The Panama Papers: Victims of Offshore ICIJ Video animation: “Behind the email chains, invoices and documents that make up the Panama Papers are often unseen victims of wrongdoing enabled by this shadowy industry. This is their story.” The fallout from Panama Papers revelations so far, country by country The Guardian Global Banks Team with Law Firms To Help the Wealthy
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Press Release: As Panama Papers break, Europe plans to water down company ownership transparency Just as the Panama papers reveal the mayhem that can be caused by secret shell companies, the European Union is set to relax ownership transparency requirements for shell companies in its forthcoming Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive. The Tax Justice Network is calling for the European Parliament, the
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The Panama Papers’ Sprawling Web of Corruption The New York Times Op Ed: “The papers chronicle a global industry developed to enable an international elite enriched by corrupt or illegal means to conceal its wealth and dealings from taxation, prosecution and public wrath.” The Panama Papers Expose the Hidden Wealth of the World’s Super-Rich The Nation ‘A Lot Of People
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