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Links Jun 16
The Week of Action for #TaxJustice kicks off! Global Alliance for Tax Justice Q&A on Financing for Development and the international tax body Global Alliance for Tax Justice A Billion-Dollar Bank Fraud in Moldova, and 20,000 Opaque British Corporations naked capitalism Desperate for Tax Money, Indonesia Ready to Grant Criminals Amnesty Jakarta Globe TweetShare
The Fair Tax Pledge is launched – please add your support and sign
Welcoming the launch of the Fair Tax Pledge – As described by Richard Murphy: The Fair Tax Pledge is a new idea from the Fair Tax Mark, of which I’m a director. The Fair Tax Mark is aimed at those businesses that are run as limited companies but we’ve always known that there are small, unincorporated businesses and many individuals who
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Global Week of Action: the Campaign Toolkit is ready! Global Alliance for Tax Justice See also earlier blog Join the Global Week of Action for #TaxJustice, June 16-23 World Bank Shifting Policies To Disclose The Real Owners Of Contract Winners Global Witness See also: 107 groups urge World Bank to end corporate anonymity in public procurement The FCPA Blog Africa:
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G7 fails to stop the dirty money trail, tax evasion The Sydney Morning Herald World Bank wants to stop anonymous firms winning contracts Thomson Reuters Corruption watchdog says UK blocked just 7 suspect deals in year Financial Times (paywall) Pakistan: ‘Access Interpol to bring back $97 bn from Swiss banks’ The News More tax havens to share black money data
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Cross-posted from our sister organisation the Global Alliance for Tax Justice The Global Week of Action for #TaxJustice, which will take place in June 16-23, 2015, aims to encourage and cross-promote diverse activities that are initiated across our tax justice communities, to increase public pressure on governments across the world. Members and allies of the Global Alliance for Tax
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Gender and tax justice Open Democracy An article from the Tax Justice Focus: the Gender Edition New Oxfam report: ‘Africa: Rising for the few’ Global Alliance for Tax Justice U.S. Tax Informant Dodged Prison, Now Seeks $22 Million Reward Bloomberg BVI gives UK non-doms four more months to opt out of automatic reporting STEP TweetShare
Links Jun 8
End transnationals’ 2 billion tax dodge on poorest countries The Ecologist Legal but secret: the story of tax rulings Europarl TV See also: Eurodad: Statement to the European Parliament’s Special Committee on Tax Rulings and Other Measures Similar in Nature or Effect Blowing the whistle on corporate secrecy Eurodad TweetShare
Links Jun 5
Tax haven: Belgium to blacklist Luxembourg Luxemburger Wort Belgium targets £390m in unpaid tax as HSBC considers job cuts The Guardian How the Cayman Islands Became a FIFA Power The New York Times See also: A U.S. Tax Investigation Snowballed to Stun the Soccer World The New YorkTimes, Banks wary of doing FIFA business in wake of bribery scandal Reuters,
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Support-antoine.org – newsletter: We support Antoine Deltour, the whistleblower of the Luxleaks revelations! Your can donate to the Support Committee for Antoine Deltour here. Luxleaks whistle-blower Deltour wins broad support in European Parliament European Parliament News Luxleaks committee to be extended until October eurActiv Development MEPs call for action to target tax evasion in developing countries European Parliament News TweetShare
Links May 29
How to tackle tax evasion and tax avoidance? The case for tax transparency to contain and end tax wars Presentation by TJN’s Markus Meinzer at the ALDE seminar: How to tackle tax evasion and tax avoidance? Paving the way for fair tax competition in Europe. Reflecting on Progressive Realisation and the Financing of the MDGs: An African Analysis Fiscal Law
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In the Tax Justice Network’s May 2015 Podcast: Do our politicians believe in the societies they serve or not? The Taxcast looks at making the tax returns of our elected representatives public and the inspirational achievement of award winning journalist Umar Cheema of the Centre for Investigative Reporting in making Pakistan only the fourth country in the world to publish
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Special Report – Britain’s home-grown tax haven Reuters Costa Rican bill would allow tax authority to seize assets without court order STEP See the article in Spanish here. Swiss Bankers Respond To Privacy Initiative Tax-News TweetShare
Links May 21
Alan Rusbridger: press can’t afford to cover corruption and tax avoidance The Guardian “Guardian editor-in-chief says newspapers retain the power to hold companies to account, but their declining fortunes are making it difficult” Lux Leaks Scandal. Juncker Gets A Step Closer to Hot Seat European Business Express LuxLeaks: Grand Duchy puts limits on transparency EU Observer EU parliament cracks down
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Should tax targets for post-2015 be rejected? Uncounted – Alex Cobham’s Blog Uncounted: has the post-2015 data revolution failed already? Uncounted – Alex Cobham’s Blog UNESCAP and Government of Indonesia – Asia Pacific High Level Consultation for Financing for Development Equity BD Links to civil society joint statements and other resource materials Brazil team selection fixed by secret Cayman company
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OECD insists tax playing field will be level swissinfo See also: OECD approval uncertain over tax transparency request procedures STEP (note references to “stolen” rather than leaked data), and see recent blogs: When a tax haven invokes the ‘level playing field’, run for the hills, and Swiss reject OECD’s new transparency project Swiss Cabinet plans to clarify stolen data question
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