How Barclays turned a billion profit into a tax loss Reuters By booking proceeds via Luxembourg ... LuxLeaks trial: refusal of EU Commissioner Vestager to give evidence is a poor show Sven Giegold #PanamaPapers: How ex-Nigerian minister bought two penthouses in Panama for N837million … [Read more...]
Inequality & Democracy
Tax Justice Focus – The Corruption Issue
As Britain prepares to host a global Corruption Summit in London next week, the Panama Papers have raised awkward questions about the country's role as an enabler of transnational organised crime. Meanwhile evidence is emerging that ordinary people in Britain no longer accept the elites' version of … [Read more...]
Links Apr 28
Panama Papers: ICIJ To Release Searchable Online Database of Data OCCRP Deltour in the dock The Economist See also our earlier blog: In the dock: Antoine Deltour, Edouard Perrin – or Luxembourg? France backs defendant as LuxLeaks trial starts BBC Panama's finance minister faces French … [Read more...]
Links Apr 26
LuxLeaks trial to be whistleblower showcase euobserver See also our earlier blog In the dock: Antoine Deltour, Edouard Perrin – or Luxembourg? Whistleblowing International Network calls on PricewaterhouseCoopers to withdraw its complaint against LuxLeaks whistleblower Public Concern At … [Read more...]
Links Apr 25
Tell Luxembourg: Don’t jail whistleblower “heroes” Global Alliance for Tax Justice See the article for support websites for whistleblower Antoine Deltour and French journalist Edouard Perrin. In our April 2016 Podcast, we ask why protections for whistleblowers are being eroded and what it says … [Read more...]
TJN Annual Discussion Workshop on Corruption and the Role of Tax Havens – programme
Discussion Workshop Corruption and the Role of Tax Havens #tjn16 City University, London, 28th – 29th April 2016 Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre, Northampton Square EC1V 0HB FINAL PROGRAMME … [Read more...]
Guest blog: Panama, the secret garden of the Colombian oligarchy
Update: Colombia and Panama reach agreement on information-sharing. Panama, the secret garden of the Colombian oligarchy This guest blog is written by a political news writer in Colombia, who wishes to remain anonymous. As everywhere else in the world, the disclosure of the Mossack Fonseca … [Read more...]
Links Apr 22
‘Global tax collaboration platform’ yet another distracting measure Global Alliance for Tax Justice "An inclusive UN global tax body is the only real solution to broken international system" Measuring illicit flows in the SDGs Deliver2030.org By TJN's research director @alexcobham LuxLeaks … [Read more...]
Links Apr 21
Event on 26 April: S&D Conference: Together for Tax Justice: Why EU tax policy matters for developing countries Developing countries left out of global tax decisions Eco-Business An obvious solution for offshore: Transparency Economía Crítica (In Spanish) UK’s Chancellor Osborne … [Read more...]
Links Apr 19
Winners announced of 2016 Tax Justice and Human Rights Essay Competition See our blog post on the competition here. Friedrich List and the pre-history of Modern-Day Competitiveness Thinking Fools' Gold - rethinking competition How Ghana started but failed to remain a tax haven Ghana … [Read more...]
Links Apr 18
Press release: The world needs a United Nations Global Tax Body now Global Alliance for Tax Justice "The most equitable way to create a fairer global tax system." Oxfam report: The IFC and tax havens Global Alliance forTax Justice "51 of the 68 companies that were lent money by the World … [Read more...]
Links Apr 15
LuxLeaks trial: "Deltour regrets nothing" Luxemburger Wort See also our blog: Will Antoine Deltour become a prisoner of conscience? Panama Papers: Is the U.S. giving Mossack Fonseca a Pass? Newsweek "There’s an old rule to conducting criminal raids for authorities who would, frankly, … [Read more...]
Links Apr 14
What the Panama Papers Mean for Global Development Inter Press Service The Panama Papers: Working Towards A Solution Huffington Post Canada Cites @nickshaxson's book Treasure Islands: Tax Havens And The Men Who Stole The World Broken at the top: How America’s dysfunctional tax system costs … [Read more...]
Links Apr 13
'A system of privilege and benefits': is a global tax body needed? The Guardian Panama Papers and the broken global tax system ActionAid UK "It is the world’s poorest people who are paying the price." ActionAid: 2016 Make Tax Fair Everywhere Speaker Tour Activists from Africa & Latin … [Read more...]
Area more than three times the size of Greater London owned in UK by secret companies in offshore tax havens
From Global Witness (no further comment from us is needed): Area more than three times the size of Greater London owned by secret companies in offshore tax havens An area of British land more than three times the size of Greater London is owned by secret companies in offshore jurisdictions like … [Read more...]
