ECLAC Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean : Political Will and Productive and Fiscal Reforms Are Key to Fighting Inequality, Experts Agree at ECLAC 4-Traders Recent posts by The BEPS Monitoring Group (BMG): BMG: Presentation at the Regional Meeting for Latin America and … [Read more...]
Finance Sector
Quote of the day – accountants and austerity
Want to know why austerity is so popular among the political classes of so many countries? Well, there are many reasons, but here is one you may not have considered. From Prof. Prem Sikka, via email: "Accountants are trained to be class warriors and austerity is written into their psyche as they … [Read more...]
Links Mar 3
India doubles coal tax to promote renewables businessGreen Black money: Luxembourg offers to send financial experts team to India IBNLive Tax-dodgers are 'not acceptable': Luxembourg Finance Minister CNBC Barclays in Luxembourg: £593m profits, £4m tax, report reveals The … [Read more...]
The Tax Justice Research Bulletin – 1(2)
February 2015 This is the second Tax Justice Research Bulletin, a monthly series dedicated to tracking the latest developments in policy-relevant research on national and international taxation. … [Read more...]
Links Mar 2
Tax evasion: Leaks on tap The Economist Cites TJN and our report identifying more than 30 loopholes and exemptions in the OECD's Common Reporting Standard (CRS). Tax Power Campaign Africa Coordinator - Job Opportunity with ActionAid The Looting Machine: Warlords, tycoons, smugglers and the … [Read more...]
Links Feb 26
European Parliament tax evasion investigation kicks off; proper inquiry must be swiftly ramped-up Sven Giegold Indonesia to crack down on corporate tax avoidance via transfer pricing Reuters Zambia: Why discrepancies in our copper trade records? Zambia Daily Mail "... we cannot easily … [Read more...]
Links Feb 25
Unhappy Meal: €1 Billion in Tax Avoidance on the Menu at McDonald's War on Want HSBC bosses grilled over Swiss tax scandal - live updates The Guardian Abusive Tax Avoidance and Institutional Corruption: The Responsibilities of Tax Professionals Social Science Research Network Hat tip: … [Read more...]
The UK Gold – watch the UK Network Premiere
The documentary film UK Gold, looking at Britain's role in the world of tax havens and in international tax issues more generally, is having its first network premiere tonight, on London Live. The music score is now available, courtesy of UK Uncut, here. Details are here, with background … [Read more...]
Whistleblowers – the new countercultural heroes
From Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone magazine: "This is the age of the whistleblower. From Chelsea Manning to Edward Snowden to the latest cloak-and-dagger lifter of files, ex-HSBC employee Hervé Falciani, whistleblowers are becoming to this decade what rock stars were to the Sixties — pop culture … [Read more...]
Links Feb 24
Economic Campaigner of the Year Tax Research UK HSBC Scandal: why tax havens are fuelling global poverty and how you can help stop it ONE Sign the petition: ask BIS to release secret information about tax havens and expose corruption. Should the HSBC Scandal Spell the End For Trickle Down … [Read more...]
How the ‘competitiveness’ dogma made banks corrupt
We've come across an interview in The Atlantic with Stephen Platt, an expert on financial crime prevention, contained in an article entitled How Dirty Money Gets Into Banks. As much as anything, we've taken it as an excuse to reproduce this fabulous cartoon in Britain's Private Eye magazine, which … [Read more...]
Links Feb 23
Cayman Islands Financial Services: Publication of Beneficial Ownership Consultation Submissions The Quiet Man Who Made Big Trouble for Little Luxembourg Bloomberg See also: ‘I am not a martyr’, says LuxLeaks whistleblower facing jail Financial Times (paywall), and recent blog Will Antoine … [Read more...]
Transparency International calls on UK to prosecute HSBC
The leading anti-corruption group Transparency International has called on authorities in the United Kingdom to launch a criminal investigation into HSBC in light of recent accusations against the bank. … [Read more...]
Links Feb 20
Asian campaigners demand the OECD’s BEPS process do more for developing countries Global Alliance for Tax Justice India: Tax department to issue notice to HSBC on alleged money laundering The Times of India See also: India: Black money probe: Activists, experts fault government for tardy … [Read more...]
Links Feb 19
HSBC : University of Warwick - Top researchers in call for re-think over international undercutting; Expert team warns of 'race to the bottom' threatening living standards around the world 4-Traders TJN-Africa's most recent publications on Transfer Pricing in Africa: Transfer Pricing in … [Read more...]
