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Links Jul 23
U.N. hopes ‘tax inspectors without borders’ will combat tax dodging Reuters UK: Plans for new ‘special measures’ for tax-avoiding companies STEP See also: Criminal charges loom over facilitating tax evasion Financial Times Mystery on Baker Street: Brutal Kazakh official linked to £147m London property empire Global Witness South Africa: Revenue Services convenes cross-border forum on illicit financial flows South African
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It’s a rich countries’ world The big event of the last week has been the UN Financing for Development (FfD) conference in Addis Ababa. Its purpose is to raise finance to reduce poverty in developing countries to meet new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These SDGs will replace the Millennium Development Goals that expire this year. Tax justice is at the
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Beneficial Ownership and Transparency Panel – The Debriefing Taxlinked.net Panel includes TJN’s research director Alex Cobham Reactions to the Addis Ababa Action Agenda Global Alliance for Tax Justice See also our earlier blog: Global tax body: “After 3 days of bullying, developing countries were run over” TweetShare
Will the patent box break BEPS?
By Alex Cobham, our research director: first posted at Uncounted. The UK has successfully defended the ‘patent box’ against the charge that it is a major avenue for multinational corporate tax abuse. Now everybody wants one, even though the evidence suggests that only multinationals will benefit. Will countries take the last chance for productive cooperation offered by BEPS; or will
Read the full article…The Tax Justice Network Podcast, July 2015
In the July 2015 Taxcast: in a special extended programme we look at the crisis in Greece and ask whatever happened to European unity? Also: we discuss the European Parliament’s vote for multinational corporations to report their activities on a public, country by country basis: the push to give poorer nations a say in international tax rule-making fails after three
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Let’s fix tax and fund development AVAAZ petition Latest posts from the Global Alliance for Tax Justice: Privatisation policies a major concern at FfD3 Snapshots: FfD3 in Addis Ababa Global Tax Body: in everyone’s interest How should the intergovernmental tax body be designed? Addis Ababa talks risk deadlock over UN agency for tax The Guardian UK Government blocking progress on
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Addis #FFD: An intergovernmental tax body? Uncounted Financing development: Tax them and they will grow The Economist “Poor countries need to get better at raising tax, and multinational firms need to get better at paying it” Building Tax Capacity in Developing Countries – Policy Briefing ICTD / IDS TweetShare
Links Jul 9
Tax Inspectors Shrug Off Borders to Track Multinational Evasion Bloomberg Cites TJN Director John Christensen Could tax breaks be on the agenda for big oil companies? World Finance Cites TJN’s Nicholas Shaxson ‘Corporate tax deals are robbing poor countries of teachers and nurses’ The Guardian Luxembourg tax authority listed as customer of surveillance software company Luxemburger Wort EU tax shelter
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European Parliament sets the stage for Europe to embrace more corporate fiscal transparency Financial Transparency Coalition See also: The EU Parliament votes for public country-by-country reporting Tax Research UK The £93bn handshake: businesses pocket huge subsidies and tax breaks The Guardian Can Africa fund its own growth? Africa Renewal TweetShare
Links Jun 26
Stop the Bleeding campaign launched in Nairobi Global Alliance for Tax Justice See also: Stop Africa’s $50 billion a year illicit outflow, campaigners say Reuters ActionAid: Tax Competition’s Impact on Developing Countries – Panel Discussion, 7 July, London Tax havens and tax evasion: a justice issue Global Alliance for Tax Justice Forum organized by Plateforme Paradis Fiscaux et Judiciaires Tax Justice
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A “historic day” for the Fair Tax Mark UN estimates on tax dodging: Offshore tax zones cost developing countries $100 bln a year – U.N. Reuters, and Companies Avoid Paying $200 Billion in Tax The Wall Street Journal How could you not be excited by the Palma? Uncounted – Alex Cobham’s Blog TJN’s research director debates with inequality guru Branko
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Global Week of Action: final push for #TaxJustice Global Alliance for Tax Justice Tax Justice to fund free, quality Public Services Global Alliance for Tax Justice French Economist Piketty: Europe’s Stance on Greek Tax Reform Is Hypocritical Greek Reporter Tax matters – Greece bailout deal hinges on collection rates The Guardian “Then, there is Greece’s big shipping industry. “And that
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The parallel financial universe of the Cayman Islands Cayman Reporter “…the people of these islands are waking up to the reality that has been kept masked under many shrouds for decades.” US official says British government undermined progress on tax avoidance The Guardian See also: Could UK and US squabbling on international tax reform just be an agreed ruse to
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Follow the money: inside the world’s tax havens The Guardian Global Week of Action for #TaxJustice: coming events Global Alliance for Tax Justice The BEPS Monitoring Group – Comments on BEPS Action 8: Hard-to-Value Intangibles Tip of the iceberg: the role of the banks in the FIFA story Global Witness Towards Measuring Fair Tax Systems in Developing Countries Make Tax
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Exposed: the million tax dodge ActionAid See the report: An Extractive Affair: How on Australian mining company’s ax dealings are costing the world’s poorest country millions Nigeria: Remedy for a Trillion Dollar Problem? allAfrica Africa: How everybody holds the continent back New Zimbabwe How tax wars affect UK small and big business Fools’ Gold – rethinking competition MEPs have voiced
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