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Links May 14
Live! Tax justice TV drama! Global Alliance for Tax Justice View recent sessions of the UN Financing for Development negotiations, including the paragraph by paragraph debate of text relating to tax justice Lessons and legacies of the financial crisis in Latin America Global Alliance for Tax Justice Australia: Not all corporate tax avoiders will be snared by new rules The
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European Parliament’s special tax committee running out of time The Parliament LuxLeaks special committee’s first country visit: Belgium is breaching EU tax law Sven Giegold Charged LuxLeaks journalist calls for more whistleblower protection Europe Online Magazine See also: Members of European Parliament voice support for whistleblowers Prague Post, and Tax: Warm welcome for whistleblowers and investigative journalists EU Reporter Glencore
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Upcoming EU presidency faces whistleblows and calls for transparency Eurodad See also: Letter to Ambassador of Luxembourg in Denmark, on tax avoidance and whistleblowers Exposing South Africa’s “Lettergate” Scandal World Policy Blog See also: recent TJN blog South Africa’s diamond companies: $11m royalties on $1.73bn of production Tax Justice Network Australia reacts to the Government’s proposed crackdown on tax avoidance
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Turkish finance minister Mehmet ?imsek: World should fight against tax evasion like it fights against terror Daily Sabah Estimating illicit funds in global tax havens moneylife Taking on the banks: a conversation with Anat Admati The New Yorker Lawmakers Embrace Patent Tax Breaks The Wall Street Journal “U.S. considering ‘patent box’ approach similar to U.K. in piecemeal approach to reform”.
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Optimistic about the state: Martin Wolf’s searing attack on the Competitiveness Agenda Fools’ Gold – rethinking competitiveness Tax probes frustrate EU competition chief EU Observer Unitary Taxation: Tax Base and the Role of Accounting International Centre for Tax and Development Former JP Morgan vice-president Hernán Arbizu: banks work together to evade taxes Buenos Aires Herald “Tax evasion is a “cancer” caused
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Shock at Luxembourg’s decision to charge LuxLeaks reporter Reporters Without Borders Responsible Tax Practice by Companies: A Mapping and Review of Current Proposals ActionAid Towards a Common African Position on Financing for Development: Governments and Civil Society Debate in Addis Ababa Regions Refocus 2015 See also: Language Map and Civil Society Recommendations emerging from the Africa Regional Consultation on FfD
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Luxembourg court charges French journalist over LuxLeaks role Reuters See also: Charges against #LuxLeaks reporter by Luxembourg authorities threaten press freedom ICIJ, Luxembourg court charges LuxLeaks journalist EU Business, and recent ICIJ article by Edouard Perrin ‘This story is global, it can only be told with a global eye’ Luxembourg unshaken after tax regime overhaul Financial Times (paywall) “An inflow
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Combatting Tax Havens: What has been done, and what should be done Eva Joly and Alternatives Economiques (In French, with English version available soon) EU must pull its weight to help create a better global financial system The Guardian Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley: Automatic info exchange only way to tackle black money Niti Central See TJN’s briefing on the
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Joint May Day statement: Working people pay taxes – corporations must pay their share! Global Alliance for Tax Justice Angola’s sovereign fund pays $100 million to a shell company index Commodity giants’ Singapore trading hubs under fire in tax probes Reuters Christine Lagarde, scourge of tax evaders, pays no tax The Guardian “IMF boss who caused international outrage when she suggested
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“Developing countries” Is it or isn’t it a spillover? Martin Hearson Too much focus on ‘spillover effects’ of tax policies might lead to an too-narrow analysis of the impacts of a jurisdiction’s tax policies on developing countries. America’s Most-Wanted Swiss Bankers Aren’t Hard to Find Bloomberg Financial secrecy: Cracking the shells – A hedge fund becomes an accidental hero of
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How anonymously owned companies are used to rip off government budgets Global Witness Taxing Multinationals: Is There a Pot of Gold of Finance for Development? Center for Global Development CSO Response to the Zero Draft of the Outcome Document of the Third Financing for Development Conference Eurodad India – We are fair but not a tax haven: Finance Minister Arun
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‘HSBC has specifically targeted Argentina’ Buenos Aires Herald “Tax Justice Network head John Christensen warns about the bank’s lobbying power” Getting the EU response to the tax dodging scandal right Eurodad See also: Corporate Tax Avoidance Crackdown, a Missed Opportunity for the EU Commission EuroPoint Australia: Senate tax avoidance inquiry: the secret of its success The Canberra Times Facebook in
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Despite Investment, Luxembourg Costs EU ‘Billions’ in Tax Breaks Sputnik International Transparency International Zambia Cautions Government Against Bending Too Much On Arriving At A Revised Tax Regime For Mines Foreign funds brace for India’s alternative tax demand FinancialTimes (paywall) India’s Finance Minister Arun Jaitley: “India is not so vulnerable that every legitimate tax demand can be considered as tax terrorism, because
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Tax justice to end inequality: World Social Forum 2015 Declaration Global Alliance for Tax Justice WSF: Activists call for governments to end inequality and deliver tax justice Global Alliance for Tax Justice Getting the EU response to the tax dodging scandal right Eurodad Eva Joly on a crusade against tax evasion in Greece Le Monde (In French) Taking advantage of
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Tax havens told to drop opposition to UK call for central register Financial Times (paywall) See also: UK demands ownership registry Cayman News Service Australia sovereign wealth Future Fund refuses to appear before Senate tax avoidance inquiry The Guardian Human Rights Institute: Rule of Law, mining taxation and economic and social rights in Zambia examined by IBAHRI delegation International Bar
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