Video summaries of #LuxLeaks stunts Global Alliance for Tax Justice See also: #LuxLeaks anniversary marked with protests, calls for action ICIJ, A year after LuxLeaks, it is high time for EU action on corporate tax-dodging The Guardian, and A Year On, Europe's Tax Affairs Are Still A Mystery New … [Read more...]
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Links Nov 5
Note: tomorrow we'll be posting news of worldwide media coverage on our newly launched 2015 Financial Secrecy Index LuxLeaks anniversary: activists call for transparency Global Alliance for Tax Justice See also: Global Week of Action for #TaxJustice, Nov 2-6! 1 year on from #LuxLeaks - … [Read more...]
Fifty Shades of Tax Dodging: how EU helps support unjust global tax systems
A major new report written by civil society organisations in 14 countries across the EU, co-ordinated by Eurodad. Fifty Shades of Tax Dodging: the EU's role in supporting an unjust global tax system … [Read more...]
TJN unveils its new Financial Secrecy Index
Today the Tax Justice Network launches the 2015 Financial Secrecy Index, the biggest ever survey of global financial secrecy. This unique index combines a secrecy score with a weighting to create a ranking of the secrecy jurisdictions and countries that most actively promote secrecy in global … [Read more...]
Links Oct 29
Ten years in the campaign for tax justice - we have a long way to go Open Democracy By TJN Director John Christensen. See our recent blog New publication: The Greatest Invention – Tax and the Campaign for a Just Society Fighting tax evasion: EU and Liechtenstein sign new tax transparency … [Read more...]
Links Oct 26
Inside the Secretive World of Tax-Avoidance Experts The Atlantic Challenges for family offices in emerging markets IFC Review / Financial Times Reporting on a trend in developing economies - wealthy families setting up their own trust companies. Corruption and natural resources - A fight for … [Read more...]
Links Oct 22
Video: Taxation (ICTD/UNU-WIDER Special Session) 1/5 - 30th Anniversary Conference Extracting minerals, extracting wealth: how Zambia is losing $3 billion a year from corporate tax dodging War on Want After Blow to Europe Tax Havens, Some Promise More Staying Power Bloomberg Large-scale … [Read more...]
Links Oct 21
Starbucks and Fiat sweetheart tax deals with EU nations ruled unlawful The Guardian See also: Apple Stakes Raised as EU Orders Starbucks, Fiat Tax Repayments Bloomberg, and earlier blog European Commission determines state sponsored tax avoidance schemes illegal Switzerland Must Seize … [Read more...]
European Commission determines state sponsored tax avoidance schemes illegal
Today the European Commission is expected to announce that the 'comfort letters' signed between European tax havens and companies are a form of illegal state aid. … [Read more...]
Links Oct 19
Analysis: Can we beat tax avoiding multinationals? - Finance Uncovered/ Byline How to lose $4billion Global Witness New report, coming ahead of a pivotal meeting of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). "Credibility test for global transparency standard as $4bn lost to … [Read more...]
Will civil society shake up the world of tax treaties?
When a multinational company makes a cross-border investment, the relevant tax treaty between the two countries will generally sort out which country gets to tax which part of the ensuing activity and income streams. (Read more about tax treaties here.) A key question is this: how do the ensuing … [Read more...]
Links Oct 16
Tax avoidance by corporations is out of control. The United Nations must step in The Guardian Comment by José Antonio Ocampo and Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona The Bitter Taste of Tax Avoidance Huffington Post Finance Minister Minister announces tax amnesty for Luxembourg Luxembuger Wort "The … [Read more...]
Links Oct 15
In Norway, Everyone's Income Is Public—and So Is Tax Paid The Atlantic Big Data and Tax Haven Secrecy Social Science Research Network "... how tax haven secrecy enables elites in non-democratic countries to transfer their monies for ultimate investment in stable democratic countries." Via … [Read more...]
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #70
MTN’s Mauritian Billions A group of investigative journalists in Africa working with Finance Uncovered, a TJN supported project have discovered that Africa’s largest mobile phone network, MTN, has been moving billions of Rand in revenue to the island of Mauritius. … [Read more...]
What will BEPS fix, and who will gain?
A guest blog by Sol Picciotto, co-ordinator of the BEPS Monitoring Group. What will BEPS fix, and who will gain? The launch this week of the final reports from the G20/OECD project on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) has sparked two frequently asked questions. The first is: can we give … [Read more...]
