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Links Mar 17
The problems with measuring tax systems SPERI ‘In debates about tax policy we need to de-emphasise the role of economics and measurement and rekindle the politics’. Blog by TJN’s Nicholas Shaxson, author of Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World. Re-framing tax spillover SPERI By Andrew Baker and Richard Murphy. The Despot’s Guide to Wealth Management
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Corporate taxation key to protecting human rights in the global economy CESR UN urges US to not exploit American Samoa The Guam Daily Post ‘The United Nations has “strongly urged” the United States to refrain from using American Samoa as, among other things, a tax haven’. A significant shift? Development policy guidance recognises that tax havenry hurts the local population.
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Public Beneficial Ownership Registries- A Shot In The Arm In The Fight Against Illicit Financial Flows Financial Transparency Coalition European Parliament takes on financial crime with tough proposals Sven Giegold More evidence in the case against Luxembourg FT Alphaville TweetShare
Links Mar 9
Taxes & Women’s Rights? Global Alliance for Tax Justice See also: Happy International Women’s Day wrapup We managed tax transparency in Pakistan. Why not everywhere else?The Guardian By Umar Cheema. See Politicians and their tax returns: a new project from Finance Uncovered MEPs vote to include all trusts in beneficial ownership registers International Investment See Trusts – Weapons of Mass Injustice:
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Trusting the Process Kleptocracy Initiative KleptoCast interview with TJN’s Andres Knobel about how trusts became the next frontier in dodging taxes and shielding assets Panama Papers: European Parliament tax avoidance fact-finding mission in Luxembourg Luxemburger Wort See also: MEPs’ mission to Luxembourg on tax evasion practices yields more questions than answers GUE/NGL, and European Parliament’s delegation on money laundering to
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Book Review: Capital Without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent by Brooke Harrington LSE Blogs “… an important work for our increasingly unequal world”. – Listen to an interview with Brooke Harrington in our December 2015 podcast MP’s from Africa and Asia pledge to collaborate in illicit financial flows fight The Nation TweetShare
Links Feb 27
Trusts – the hole in the EU’s response to the Panama Papers? Global Witness See also, our report Trusts – Weapons of Mass Injustice HSBC discloses tax evasion probes in India other countries Economic Times Probes in U.S., France, Belgium, Argentina … See also: HSBC Sets Aside $773 Million for Tax Authority Investigations Bloomberg BNA Despots’ jackpots – Why
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It’s not all bad news coming out of the European Union this month. European Union rapporteurs have made some excellent proposals on the implementation of public country-by-country reporting for multinational companies which you can read about here and here. Now we hope the EU Commission will listen and take on board their recommendations. But, what’s not good news is that
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EU agrees new rules to tackle multinationals tax avoidance The Guardian Don’t bank on the EU to create a reliable list of tax havens, TJN’s Financial Secrecy Index is more credible. See also: EU finance minister meeting: Blacklist is whitewashing tax havens Sven Giegold Denmark would not oppose Britain turning itself into tax haven Reuters Read about the Race to
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Tackling Illicit Financial Flows – Can Africa Rise to the Challenge? United Nations Economic Commission for Africa / via allAfrica New Zealand to enact tighter foreign trust disclosure rules STEP See also: Trusts – Weapons of Mass Injustice: new Tax Justice Network report Ireland: Finance Minister Michael Noonan hits out at EU’s plan for tax disclosure Irish Independent TweetShare
Links Feb 15
Global Week of Action to #EndTaxHavens! – 1 to 7 April 2017 Global Alliance for Tax Justice ICTD Summary Brief 6: Tax and Gender in Developing Countries: What are the Issues? International Centre for Tax and Development The Political Economy of Long-Term Revenue Decline in Sri Lanka International Centre for Tax and Development Did a little-noticed tax exemption law turn
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Brazil’s corruption scandal spreads across South America The Guardian Founders of Panama Papers Law Firm Arrested on Money Laundering Charges ICIJ Swiss voters soundly reject corporate tax overhaul Reuters See also: Switzerland says no to yet more tax abuse Tax Research UK International experts debate how to end tax havens TJN Latin America & Caribbean (In Spanish) The case of
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New recommendations to help investors engage on tax UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Banks take bigger role in Latin America fight against tax evasion Reuters New Zealand, a haven for global billionaires to park their money, has a murky trust issue Bloomberg Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca offices raided over Odebrecht bribery scandal The Guardian See also: Swiss institute: Peru
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Global investment flowing through tax havens grows by 0bn Public Finance International Luxembourg expects more companies to leave over tax scrutiny Financial Times “Finance minister expects some international groups to follow lead set by McDonald’s” ‘Appealing Apple tax decision a mistake’ – academic Irish Independent Event: Maintaining the momentum for the SDGs – Latin America The Guardian TweetShare
Links Feb 3
U.S. Congress votes for corruption by overturning historic transparency law in gift to big oil Global Witness See also: U.S. Congress Votes to Kill Anti-Corruption Safeguard FACT Coalition, and Oxfam condemns Senate’s shameful gutting of bipartisan anti-corruption rule, Section 1504 Oxfam America Eradicating poverty requires far more than aid, says Christian Aid “The UK and its Overseas Territories are cornerstones
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