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Panama Papers: Hunting the pinstriped octopus hiding in offshore tax havens International Business Times By TJN director John Christensen Panama is only one head of the tax haven Hydra Financial Times (paywall) By TJN’s Nicholas Shaxson, author of Treasure Islands #PanamaPapers – stories from Africa: How the Elite Hide their Wealth African Network of Centers for Investigative Reporting (ANCIR) Stories
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The Panama Papers: world reacts to huge offshore tax files leak – live The Guardian Panama Papers: Leaks spur global investigations BBC World figures deny wrongdoing as ‘Panama Papers’ turn spotlight on tax evasion Reuters The Panama Papers – Secrets of the Super Rich abc Panama Papers: The secret offshore world of the elite The Irish Times Panama Papers put
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Unfamiliar with irony, Swiss bankers are complaining of a “lack of transparency” Quartz New Zealand Foreign Trusts and the Unaoil Scandal: More Chickens Coming Home to Roost, and They’re Big naked capitalism See also: Mainstream Media Ignores Blockbuster Expose of Massive Bribery in Iraq by Unaoil Closing tax havens will create fairer global society: U.S. Economist Xinhua “Stopping abuse of
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There’s A Huge New Corporate Corruption Scandal. Here’s Why Everyone Should Care HuffPost See also: The Bribe Factory The Age / HuffPost – “An extraordinary case of bribery and corruption in the oil industry, centred on Monaco-based company Unaoil”. Canada Joins 21st Century Fight against Tax Dodgers The Tyee Tax Policy and Human Rights In Times Of Austerity TJN Latin
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The gnomes of Zurich are silent no longer Financial Times “Past actions are catching up with some Swiss banking clients”. On links between Brazil’s Petrobras, Malaysia’s 1MDB, Fifa, and Spanish political slush fund scandals… Swiss banks to cooperate in probe of Venezuela’s state oil and gas company, PDVSA Kallanish Energy Switzerland Rejects Dutch Taxpayer Info Request Tax-News Tax Justice in
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Financial Transparency Coalition Newsletter January – March 2016 Credit Suisse, the Jailed Banker and an Oligarch’s Millions Bloomberg Swiss Banks Land in Middle of Money-Laundering Probe — Again Bloomberg “U.S. said to seek banking records in widening Venezuela probe” OECD warns that tax evasion weakens economies in Latin America TJN Latin America and Caribbean (In Spanish) Canada: Breathe Easy Bank
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How Much International Tax Evasion is There? naked capitalism $181 billion Indian black money in tax havens? The Times of India Head of joint OECD/UNDP Tax Inspectors Without Borders initiative appointed – James Karanja, of the Kenya Revenue Authority OECD For background, read our August 2014 blog on Tax Inspectors Without Borders. Equity Bank surrenders staff to Kenya Revenue Authority
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HSBC’s Money Laundering Nightmare (2): Mossack Fonseca, a Year in Words and Pictures, March 2015-March 2016 naked capitalism Story involves Panama, Brazil, Moldova, Malta, New Zealand, Azerbaijan, Germany, Luxembourg, USA, Hong Kong … Global tax enforcement puts Cayman in the crosshairs The Cayman Reporter See also our recent blog “Squeaky clean” Cayman caught in the act – again Brazil sets
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You’re A Rich Tax Dodger? No Problem, Says Canada Revenue Authority Canadians for Tax Fairness See also: Critics want public hearings into Canada Revenue amnesty for KPMG offshore tax dodgers CBC US and EU clash over tax practice clampdown The Irish Times “Washington urges Brussels to ‘reconsider’ its approach to American multinationals” Industry body helping Cayman Islands Government dodge public
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Time To Kill Corporate Tax? Tax-News See also our report Ten Reasons to Defend the Corporate Income Tax ECOFIN agreement a missed chance, campaigners say Financial Transparency Coalition E.U. Ministers Agree to Share Tax Details on Multinationals The New York Times See also: European Council – Corporate tax avoidance: Council agrees its stance on the exchange of tax-related information on
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The Billionaires’ Loophole The New Yorker EU competition chief warns Apple tax challenge will take a while BDlive Facebook looks set to pay more UK tax but it might not be as much as you think The Conversation By TJN senior adviser Prem Sikka. See also Facebook to award staff £280m in bonuses by the end of 2018 to cut
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AEoI as the new global standard: OECD Standard and EU Tax Cooperation, Keynote presentation at 2nd Turkish-German Biennial on International Tax Law, by TJN’s Markus Meinzer, Istanbul Switzerland’s Financial Secrecy Brought Under Human Rights Spotlight Center for Economic and Social Rights Corporate tax – an opportunity as well as a threat The Great Business Debate Is Singapore the New Switzerland for Tax
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Withdrawal Symptoms: Why tax cuts aren’t the best way to incentivise work The Equality Trust Global elite continues to make billions from rigged economic system, Forbes rich list shows Oxfam America How curious $3.3 million tax holiday to Shell, Total, Eni, is killing Nigerians – Report Premium Times Italy logs record income from unpaid tax recovery Deutsche Welle Includes video
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Tackle Tax Evasion to Fuel Africa’s Development allAfrica / The Point (Banjul) Bangladesh: MNCs abuse relaxed taxation to deprive government of crucial revenue Dhaka Tribune India To Introduce Patent Box Regime, Country-by-Country Reporting Tax-News Pakistan: Government can negotiate with Swiss banks to bring back wealth, says Swiss envoy Business Recorder Rogue Wealth Manager: Billionaire Georgian Oligarch’s complaint raises liability issue
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