OECD Global Forum agrees to Luxembourg transparency review Luxemburger Wort Billions of rands leave South Africa under the radar Times Live FDI inflows: Who is investing in India and in what sectors? Financial Express "While Singapore and Mauritius have swapped places as top investors in … [Read more...]
Inequality & Democracy
Links Jan 12
WikiLeaks Banker Called Traitor as Prosecutor Seeks Jail Bloomberg See also recent blogs Tax haven whistleblowers: where are the human rights organisations? and Show trial of Swiss whistleblower Elmer now in 9th year Luxleaks: Parliament could still set up a committee of inquiry euranet … [Read more...]
Credit Suisse’s U.S. public hearing on Wednesday
A guest blog by Heather Lowe of Global Financial Integrity, with thanks: As many of you know, Credit Suisse AG (CSAG) was convicted in November of U.S. felony charges relating to assisting (and soliciting) tax evasion by U.S. taxpayers. A consequence of this felony conviction is that, according … [Read more...]
Links Jan 8
Public consultation rejects beneficial ownership registry Cayman Compass Where have all the tax avoiders gone? Mike Lewis' blog An overview of the state of the tax avoidance debate Scale and Consequences of Capital Flight from Africa The Real News $2 lost for every $1 gained: the single … [Read more...]
Links Jan 7
LuxLeaks Scandal Reveals International “Race to the Bottom” Economy Watch LuxLeaks informant faces up to 10-years in prison Luxemburger Wort See also article linked yesterday: World unites to decry prosecution of source behind LuxLeaks tax scandal The Guardian, and the open letter to Luxembourg … [Read more...]
Financing for Whose Development? How Official Development Finance Institutions support Tax Havens
This is an extract from an article by Eurodad's Mathieu Vervynckt, in which he discusses the Third UN Conference on Financing for Development (FfD), set to take place in Addis Ababa next year as a crucial opportunity to discuss both the use of scarce public resources to leverage private sector … [Read more...]
Poorer Countries Lose More from Corporate Profit-Shifting
By Alex Cobham. This post was originally published by the Center for Global Development, where I was a research fellow until leaving this month to join TJN as Director of Research. Reproduced, with CGD's permission. Poorer Countries Lose More from Corporate Profit-Shifting Lower-income … [Read more...]
The New Year Wrapper
Ahmadinejad: “he was my driver” The Mafia Capitale scandal has been gripping Italy over the last few months. It involves the corrupt award of public sector contracts in Rome to a network of people associated with extreme right-wing and neo-fascist movements. … [Read more...]
Links Jan 6
World unites to decry prosecution of source behind LuxLeaks tax scandal The Guardian See also the open letter to Luxembourg prosecutors: LuxLeaks tax source should not be charged LuxLeaks: An opportunity? euobserver Poorer Countries Lose More from Corporate Profit-Shifting The Center for … [Read more...]
Dublin event: The Human Rights Impact of Tax and Fiscal Policy
Hurry, while tickets last. One to add to our Events Page, and to our Tax Justice and Human Rights page. From Christian Aid: The Human Rights Impact of Tax and Fiscal Policy … [Read more...]
Please contribute to the update of The End of Poverty?
Films play an important part in shaping new understandings about the structural causes of poverty and inequality. In 2007 we participated in the making of The End Of Poverty?, which has enjoyed huge critical success and has been watched by millions of people around the world. The makers of The … [Read more...]
Developing countries and corporate tax – ten ways forward
Our last main blog before Christmas concerns developing countries. We are proud to publish an article by Krishen Mehta, one of our Senior Advisers, entitled The OECD's BEPS Process and Developing Countries - a way forward. This blog summarises the article, which is about how developing countries … [Read more...]
Links Dec 19
Capital flight: CEFID-AR publishes "The enablers and their ways of working" via Red de Justicia Fiscal de América Latina y el Caribe (In Spanish) Hat tip: Jorge Gaggero Editorial: Stem Capital Flight The Himalayan Times Widening of EU tax probe takes heat off Ireland Irish Examiner … [Read more...]
Links Dec 18
EU cracks down on anonymous company ownership, but falls short of full transparency Global Witness UK: Criminal penalty omitted from tax evasion clampdown Financial Times (paywall) Canada: New anti-corruption measure for oil, gas and mining companies passes into law amidst cautions from civil … [Read more...]
Advancing Tax Justice through Human Rights: International Strategy Meeting, April 2015
Mark your calendar for a groundbreaking International Strategy Meeting Advancing Tax Justice through Human Rights Co-organized by the Center for Economic and Social Rights, Global Alliance for Tax Justice, LatinDADD, Oxfam, Red de Justicia Fiscal en América Latina y el Caribe and Tax Justice … [Read more...]
