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Links Dec 12
Panama Papers – start of sensible revolution in EU tax affairs? EU Observer Op-Ed by TJN’s George Turner EU finance ministers warn US over tax reform The Irish Times Promotions for Corrupt Officials, Shattered Windows for Whistleblowers OCCRP See also: No regrets ‘Some big companies in Hungary were stealing millions from the tax authorities through a complex scheme
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TJNA Statement on newly-published Oxfam report on tax and inequality in Kenya EU Finance Chiefs Ask Commission to Monitor U.S. Tax Reform Bloomberg BNA See also our blog: Human rights costs of the proposed U.S. tax cuts MEPs try to add EU member states to the blacklist of tax havens EurActiv See also: A tax haven blacklist without the UK
Read the full article…The EU flunks the tax haven test
The Tax Justice Network today expresses its deep frustration at the lack of effective action being taken by the EU following the publication of its so-called tax haven blacklist. Commenting on the publication of the list, Alex Cobham, chief executive of the Tax Justice Network said: “The EU has today missed a great opportunity to tackle the real issues lying
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Ending Fiscal Impunity, By Eva Joly Premium Times ‘In order to change the rules of the game, we must also go after the financial intermediaries by regulating their operations and demanding they explain their use of offshore structures. Each country must also declare the true nature of multinationals’ operations there, create databases of the companies’ ultimate beneficiaries and, finally, extend
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How Can Governments of Low-Income Countries Collect More Tax Revenue? International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) Luxleaks whistleblowers’ appeal starts Thursday Delano See also: EU still doesn’t have rules in place to ensure whistleblower protection The Greens in the European Parliament, and @support_antoine and @LuxLeaksRaphael What the Paradise Papers Tell Us About Global Business and Political Elites naked capitalism
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Paradise Papers: Tax havens, legal letters and other sticky questions answered by ICIJ Drug traffickers taught the rich how to hide money in tax havens The Guardian Paradise Papers Exposes Powerful Politicians, Prompts Calls For Inquiries Across Africa ICIJ Africa: Doing Without Advice From Deloitte? allAfrica / Pambazuka News Paradise Papers Lifts The Veil On The Role Of Offshore Finance
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Exposure, Control of Countries Hiding Corruption, Other Illegal Finances Should Involve UN, Helsinki Conference Agrees Tanzania Business News Illicit outflows hurting Africa’s revenue collections, development efforts The New Times, Rwanda After precipitating the latest Citizenship By Investment price war, St Kitts-Nevis says it will not engage in a race to the bottom Caribbean News Now! See also: Citizenship list
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Panama Papers investigation reveals Bolivia’s offshore connections ICIJ Exclusive: Swiss prosecutors seek widening of secrecy law to bankers abroad Reuters See our blog from last year: Trial of whistleblower Rudolf Elmer breaks open Swiss banking secrecy at a new level For One Swiss Banker, Crackdown Was Opportunity, Prosecutors Say Bloomberg Ireland: European digital tax
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State aid: European Commission opens in-depth investigation into UK tax scheme for multinationals European Commission Press release Multinationals still favored by governments, new EU tax investigation reveals Oxfam International EU to investigate UK tax loophole for multinationals The Guardian See also: The EU Competition Commissioner’s welcome move against UK government tax abuse Tax Research UK Panama Papers 2? The financial
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Tax affairs of the wealthy at risk after data hack economia Many of the world’s most famous people are terrified about a new cyber attack The Independent ‘The leak could be like the second round of the Panama Papers’. See also: Bermuda cyber hack: Offshore law firm data hack leaves super-rich bracing for financial details to be released The
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Tax justice: A powerful means to address inequality CIDSE A new global solution to money laundering will mainly just help rich countries Quartz On a report (linked yesterday) by the Financial Transparency Coalition and Christian AID. PANA Committee finds resistance to reforms by ‘some member states’ Malta Today Azerbaijan Laundromat shows UK is choice of crooks and despots, says Hodge
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Unequal Exchange: How poor countries are blindfolded in the global fight against banking secrecy Financial Transparency Coalition & Christian Aid Combating Illicit Financial Flows Through Corporate Tax Evasion, By Léonce Ndikumana Premium Times Strengthening regional collaboration in international taxation Tax Justice Network Latin America & Caribbean (In Spanish) Nigeria: Federal Government Cautioned on Use of Corporate Tax Incentives to Achieve
Read the full article…Malta & corruption: Investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia killed by car bomb
As reported by Reuters, Daphne Caruana Galizia, Malta’s best-known investigative journalist was killed today by a powerful bomb which blew up her car. Only fifteen days earlier she had reported threats against her to the police. Her absolutely fearless blog Running Commentary continually broke revelations about the corruption of Maltese politics (on all sides), and her work went way beyond Malta.
Read the full article…The campaign to subvert the UN Sustainable Development Goals – TJN presentation from the Pan Africa Conference on Illicit Financial Flows and Tax
Our CEO Alex Cobham recently addressed the 5th Pan Africa Conference on Illicit Financial Flows and Tax, organised by Tax Justice Network Africa and the UN Economic Commission for Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. Alex’s presentation focuses on the debate emerging over the inclusion of the goal to reduce illicit financial flows within the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Below you
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Missed Opportunity: How could funds lost to tax incentives in Africa be used to fill the education finance gap? ActionAid (via Curtis Research) Excluding corporate tax avoidance from definitions of illicit financial flows will undermine progress in fight – ECA and partners Ghana Business News Africa robbed of $50bn via treaties, weak tax laws News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
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