Follow the money: inside the world's tax havens The Guardian Global Week of Action for #TaxJustice: coming events Global Alliance for Tax Justice The BEPS Monitoring Group - Comments on BEPS Action 8: Hard-to-Value Intangibles Tip of the iceberg: the role of the banks in the FIFA story … [Read more...]
Inequality & Democracy
Exposed: $43 million tax dodge in world’s poorest country
From ActionAid, another excellent investigation into a corporate tax dodge in Malawi, which on some measures is the world's poorest country: Today [June 17] we’ve released an investigation into an Australian mining company called Paladin, operating in Malawi – the world’s poorest country. We … [Read more...]
Sign on! Lima Declaration on Tax Justice and Human Rights
Via the Global Alliance for Tax Justice: Organisations are now invited to endorse the Lima Declaration on Tax Justice and Human Rights. … [Read more...]
Links Jun 18
Exposed: the million tax dodge ActionAid See the report: An Extractive Affair: How on Australian mining company's ax dealings are costing the world's poorest country millions Nigeria: Remedy for a Trillion Dollar Problem? allAfrica Africa: How everybody holds the continent back New … [Read more...]
Links Jun 16
The Week of Action for #TaxJustice kicks off! Global Alliance for Tax Justice Q&A on Financing for Development and the international tax body Global Alliance for Tax Justice A Billion-Dollar Bank Fraud in Moldova, and 20,000 Opaque British Corporations naked capitalism Desperate for … [Read more...]
Links Jun 12
Global Week of Action: the Campaign Toolkit is ready! Global Alliance for Tax Justice See also earlier blog Join the Global Week of Action for #TaxJustice, June 16-23 World Bank Shifting Policies To Disclose The Real Owners Of Contract Winners Global Witness See also: 107 groups urge World … [Read more...]
Links Jun 11
G7 fails to stop the dirty money trail, tax evasion The Sydney Morning Herald World Bank wants to stop anonymous firms winning contracts Thomson Reuters Corruption watchdog says UK blocked just 7 suspect deals in year Financial Times (paywall) Pakistan: ‘Access Interpol to bring back $97 … [Read more...]
Join the Global Week of Action for #TaxJustice, June 16-23
Cross-posted from our sister organisation the Global Alliance for Tax Justice The Global Week of Action for #TaxJustice, which will take place in June 16-23, 2015, aims to encourage and cross-promote diverse activities that are initiated across our tax justice communities, to … [Read more...]
Are the G7 really suggesting compulsory arbitration on international tax disputes?
Christian Aid sent us this email yesterday, and it's a shocker. Back in 2013, the G7 made some pretty strong commitments to tax justice, and we said then we'd be watching them carefully to see if they'd deliver. Well, on this evidence, they haven't: quite the opposite, in fact. It is worth … [Read more...]
In memoriam: FIFA’s stench kills free speech in Cayman
More fallout from the toxic FIFA scandal (see here, here and here). … [Read more...]
Links Jun 9
Gender and tax justice Open Democracy An article from the Tax Justice Focus: the Gender Edition New Oxfam report: ‘Africa: Rising for the few’ Global Alliance for Tax Justice U.S. Tax Informant Dodged Prison, Now Seeks $22 Million Reward Bloomberg BVI gives UK non-doms four more months to … [Read more...]
Links Jun 8
End transnationals' 2 billion tax dodge on poorest countries The Ecologist Legal but secret: the story of tax rulings Europarl TV See also: Eurodad: Statement to the European Parliament’s Special Committee on Tax Rulings and Other Measures Similar in Nature or Effect Blowing the whistle on … [Read more...]
Australia may try to exempt wealthy via scaremongering
The Sydney News reports: "The Australian government has produced draft legislation to classify the financial accounts of private wealthy families, in order to deter kidnappers." and there's more, summed up by The Guardian: … [Read more...]
Links Jun 5
Tax haven: Belgium to blacklist Luxembourg Luxemburger Wort Belgium targets £390m in unpaid tax as HSBC considers job cuts The Guardian How the Cayman Islands Became a FIFA Power The New York Times See also: A U.S. Tax Investigation Snowballed to Stun the Soccer World The New … [Read more...]
HSBC, money-laundering and Swiss regulatory deterrence
Number-crunching, à la Private Eye: the case of HSBC and its Swiss fine for “organisational deficiencies” in relation to money-laundering. $42.8 million Fine imposed on HSBC by Geneva authorities for "organisational deficiencies" related to money-laundering uncovered in … [Read more...]
