A Defeat for International Tax Cooperation Global Alliance for Tax Justice / Project Syndicate See also: Tax body blow in Addis weakens developing nations Mail & Guardian, and recent blog: Global tax body: “After 3 days of bullying, developing countries were run over” Tax inspection depends … [Read more...]
Finance Sector
Links Aug 3
Luxleaks committee demands overhaul of EU tax rules EUObserver LuxLeaks panel banks on voter rage Politico Benefits of 'double Irish' replacement tax in doubt Irish Independent Ireland is not paying ample tax — look at Danish model Irish Examiner How the Rich Can Keep Their Homes, … [Read more...]
Links Jul 30
International Tax Justice Academy: Financing Africa´s economic development Global Alliance for Tax Justice Rich Nations Reject Global Tax Body allAfrica / The Observer (Kampala) See also earlier blog: Global tax body: “After 3 days of bullying, developing countries were run over” UBS Deal … [Read more...]
Is it game over for money laundering in London’s property market?
Cross-posted from Finance: Uncovered Today, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom announced that the UK will publish information on property owned by foreign companies. In a speech in Singapore David Cameron said: “The UK must not become a safe haven for corrupt money from … [Read more...]
Links Jul 28
How tax havens are surviving Economia Cites TJN's Markus Meinzer How shedding light on company ownership will help beat financial crime The Guardian Moving Toward Exposing Corporate Secrecy in World Bank Contracting Global Witness Puerto Rico debt crisis: austerity for residents, but tax … [Read more...]
Links Jul 23
U.N. hopes 'tax inspectors without borders' will combat tax dodging Reuters UK: Plans for new 'special measures' for tax-avoiding companies STEP See also: Criminal charges loom over facilitating tax evasion Financial Times Mystery on Baker Street: Brutal Kazakh official linked to £147m … [Read more...]
Links Jul 20
Beneficial Ownership and Transparency Panel – The Debriefing Taxlinked.net Panel includes TJN's research director Alex Cobham Reactions to the Addis Ababa Action Agenda Global Alliance for Tax Justice See also our earlier blog: Global tax body: “After 3 days of bullying, developing countries … [Read more...]
The Tax Justice Network Podcast, July 2015
In the July 2015 Taxcast: in a special extended programme we look at the crisis in Greece and ask whatever happened to European unity? Also: we discuss the European Parliament’s vote for multinational corporations to report their activities on a public, country by country basis: the push to give … [Read more...]
Links Jul 15
Let's fix tax and fund development AVAAZ petition Latest posts from the Global Alliance for Tax Justice: Privatisation policies a major concern at FfD3 Snapshots: FfD3 in Addis Ababa Global Tax Body: in everyone’s interest How should the intergovernmental tax body be designed? Addis … [Read more...]
UK parliament: stop money laundering through UK property
More precisely, what is known as an Early Day Motion, so far signed by 20 UK MPs: "That this House notes the recent screening of From Russia with Cash on Channel 4; expresses its concern that the proceeds of corruption are being laundered through the London property market via the use of … [Read more...]
Links Jul 10
Addis #FFD: An intergovernmental tax body? Uncounted Financing development: Tax them and they will grow The Economist "Poor countries need to get better at raising tax, and multinational firms need to get better at paying it" Building Tax Capacity in Developing Countries - Policy Briefing … [Read more...]
Links Jul 9
Tax Inspectors Shrug Off Borders to Track Multinational Evasion Bloomberg Cites TJN Director John Christensen Could tax breaks be on the agenda for big oil companies? World Finance Cites TJN's Nicholas Shaxson 'Corporate tax deals are robbing poor countries of teachers and nurses' The … [Read more...]
Quote of the day: City of London and the drugs trade
Fresh from our brief discussion of the explosive documentary From Russia with Cash, we have a quote of the day from Roberto Saviano, an expert on the Italian crime organisation Camorra, via The Indendent: "The British treat it as not their problem because there aren’t corpses on the street." … [Read more...]
From Russia with cash: the London laundry exposed
From Britain's Channel 4, a superb exposé of Britain's high-end property circus market and the willingness of sellers to accept money from all sources, no matter how dubious. It is hilarious and ghastly, at the same time. This is money stolen from some of the world's poorest people, going into … [Read more...]
Links Jul 8
European Parliament sets the stage for Europe to embrace more corporate fiscal transparency Financial Transparency Coalition See also: The EU Parliament votes for public country-by-country reporting Tax Research UK The £93bn handshake: businesses pocket huge subsidies and tax breaks The … [Read more...]
