Tax secrets of little Luxembourg CNBC U.K. Lawmakers Call Former HSBC Private Bank CEO 'Incompetent' Bloomberg European Parliament's inquiry committee on #LuxLeaks is taking shape European Voice Tipping the balance: new global corporate law Lawyers for Better Business (L4BB) Blog A call … [Read more...]
Inequality & Democracy
Links Mar 9
View from abroad: New development paradigm DAWN.com "Yes, finally after years of beating around the bush, global attention is turning to tackling tax evasion, by companies and individuals. The question will be high up on the agenda of the third International Conference on Financing for Development … [Read more...]
Event: can low income countries ever tax transnational corporations?
From the Institute of Development Studies: Wednesday 11 March 2015 13:00 to 14:30 IDS, Convening Space Mick Moore will talk as a political realist and Alex Cobham, Research Director of the Tax Justice Network, as a magical realist. About the series Inequalities in various forms have been … [Read more...]
Links Mar 5
U.S. Companies Are Stashing .1 Trillion Overseas to Avoid Taxes Bloomberg See also: Despite FATCA, U.S. Companies Stash $2.1 Trillion Abroad---Untaxed Forbes Foreign Tax Surprises Like Disney’s Have SEC Seeking Sunlight Bloomberg Imagination at Work? GE Once Again Pays Less Than 1% in … [Read more...]
New report: how corrupt capital is used to buy property in the UK
From Transparency International, a landmark study looking at the role the UK's real estate sector has played in laundering the world's money. We don't have time to do this justice, but the world's media has done a good job covering it. Unmask the Corrupt: How UK Property Launders the Wealth of … [Read more...]
Links Mar 4
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...]
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...]
How to kickstart sluggish growth: tax corporations more
The Financial Times columnist John Plender he has written an exellent article that contains a number of points - every single one of which, bar one, has previously been argued by TJN. We won't summarise them all - please read the full article, if you have a subscription, but it's almost uncanny how … [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...]
HSBC and the world’s oldest drug cartel
HSBC's core values are under scrutiny. The bank has been implicated in one scandal after another, and the current leadership claims to be wanting to restore the bank's reputation. But what reputation do they aim to restore? … [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...]
It’s time to stop extraditing public-interest whistleblowers
TJN has just co-signed a letter published by the U.S. Governmental Accountability Project (GAP,) drawing attention to the topsy-turvy situation where whistleblowers acting in the public interest are being extradited to other countries, under procedures that were originally created to fight against … [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...]
