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Links Dec 15
Regional Week of Action in Latin America! Global Alliance for Tax Justice Measuring illicit flows in the SDGs Uncounted Why would an international tax lawyer join Oxfam? The Politics of Poverty National Tax Justice Youth Film Festival Tax Justice Coalition Pakistan Tackling corporate tax avoidance is an alternative to EU austerity The Guardian By Richard Murphy Cayman: Central public
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Abusive Tax Avoidance and Responsibilities of Tax Professionals Journal of Human Development and Capabilities Global Looting – A Snapshot The Corner House Illicit Financial Flows: Overview of Concepts, Methodologies and Regional Perspectives CBGA Las Vegas Review-Journal Staffers Want To Know Who Owns Their Newspaper Huffington Post TweetShare
Links Dec 10
KPMG’s Regulatory Arbitrage Culture Paper by Dr. Atul K. Shah “The Big 4 … Overwhelming evidence has been emerging in recent decades about their pro-active roles in tax avoidance and arbitrage…” Trade Secrets: Coca-Cola’s Hidden Formula for Avoiding Taxes 100Reporters Shell and Eni’s Misadventures in Nigeria Global Witness “The OPL 245 case provides a clear and compelling example of why
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Latin America and Caribbean Tax Administration Dialogue on International Taxation in Quito Global Alliance for Tax Justice Country-by-Country regime passed by Australian Parliament Global Alliance for Tax Justice New Study: Illicit Financial Flows Hit US$1.1 Trillion in 2013 Financial Transparency Coalition Blog Bermuda link in Botswana president tax row The Royal Gazette Improve domestic resource mobilisation, African countries urged News
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The determinants of tax haven FDI Science Direct Paper examines the determinants of a multinational enterprise’s (MNEs) decision to set up tax haven subsidiaries. Cayman Islands fraudsters may have moved $450 million to Cuba Caribbean News Now! Very interesting report by Kenneth Rijock, a contributor to our Tax Justice Focus: The Whistleblower Edition Bermuda Premier: critics show ‘a lack of
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Exploring the Panorama of Inequality… ActionAid A battle over billions in business tax incentives CBS News Tax systems: A channel for corruption – or a way to fight it? Transparency International The sun starts setting on our financial industry Malta Today “… a race to the bottom on tax rates can work against us in the long term” Exxon and
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Revealed: how Southeast Asia’s biggest drug lord used shell companies to become a jade kingpin Global Witness For Facebook’s Zuckerberg, Charity Is in Eye of Beholder Bloomberg Gabriel Zucman points out: “A society where rich people decide for themselves how much taxes they pay and to what public goods they are willing to contribute is not a civilized society.” See
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Art & Money Laundering in Switzerland – secrecy is weakening Bilan (In French) Article in English here. EAC states adopt new measures to curb tax loss The East African European Parliament tax investigation continued: Strong mandate for new committee to continue tax investigation Sven Giegold Near-Record U.S. Penalty Seen for VimpelCom in Uzbek Case Bloomberg Uzbekistan graft story involves money flows
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HSBC whistleblower given five years’ jail over biggest leak in banking history The Guardian See also: ‘Sentencing Changes Nothing, Will Help Black Money Probe,’ Says Herve Falciani NDTV, The Snowden Of Swiss Bank Accounts Is Sentenced To Prison While White Collar Criminals Go Free ThinkProgress, and the Whistleblower edition of Tax Justice Focus Tax justice for Climate justice Global Alliance for
Read the full article…How the U.S.A. became a secrecy jurisdiction
This month we published our fourth Financial Secrecy Index (FSI), complete with a series of reports about each of the biggest tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions, looking into the political and economic histories of how and why they went offshore, who was involved, and where the bodies are buried. Here is our story about how the United States became a secrecy jurisdiction. For a pretty pdf
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An uneven playing field: inequality, human rights and taxation inesc “The Latin American experience shows that progressive tax systems are crucial to reducing inequality.” EU lawmakers step up pressure to tackle tax dodging Reuters See also: EP tax investigation: EP president Schulz blocking investigative work Sven Giegold, and Successor to Special Committee on Tax Rulings European Parliament EU citizens back
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European Parliament tax investigation: Special committee extension blocked to protect Juncker and Dijsselbloem Sven Giegold Special Report: Greek shipowners talk up their role to protect tax breaks Reuters Wanted: central bank boss to fix 1,700-year-old European tax haven Reuters So Pfizer will bring its tax bonanza back to the U.S.? Uh-huh CBS News See also: Americans are queuing up to
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Tackling tax across borders Public Finance International Mozambique PM rues Africa tax collection crisis Star Africa India: Are shell companies behind the over-estimation of GDP? LiveMint Bob Jessop: an historical approach to national competitiveness Fools’ Gold – rethinking competition Pfizer’s Big Breakthrough: Global Tax Avoidance The New York Times “The $160 billion deal to combine Pfizer and Allergan, the maker
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Crackdown on Caribbean tax havens a surprise boon for Hong Kong South China Morning Post Why we need public country by country reporting Global Alliance for Tax Justice UN Principles for Responsible Investment: Engagement guidance on corporate tax responsibility Investor Brief on Tax Evasion and Avoidance: Why it matters for long term investors Committee on Worker Capital Concerns over illicit
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”Global citizenship is essentially a branding exercise” and passport shopping is big business Quartz Fascinating piece on citizenship-for-sale, and speaking on the tax issues Getting to Good – towards responsible corporate tax behaviour Discussion paper by Christian Aid, ActionAid and Oxfam G20: global tax system tweaked– not fixed Global Alliance for Tax Justice Ghana will join fight to stop illicit
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