EU: Šemeta In Final EU Tax Harmonization Push Tax-News Offshore companies banned from Bulgarian agriculture land ownership farmlandgrab.org … [Read more...]
Inequality & Democracy
Symposium: Tax Justice and Human Rights, McGill University, Montreal
Tax Justice and Human Rights A Collaborative Symposium for Researchers, Students and Activists … [Read more...]
The Offshore Wrapper: A week in tax justice
The Offshore Wrapper is written by George Turner Nigeria – failed state? Recently Nigeria almost doubled its GDP in a day, showing that strong growth in a time of global economic malaise is still possible - on paper at least. … [Read more...]
Links Apr 14
The BEPS Monitoring Group Submission to the OECD on the Digital Economy Rudolf Elmer's open letter to Mr. Martin Graf, Swiss Government Councillor See also our recent blog: Show trial of Swiss whistleblower Elmer now in 9th year, and Julius Baer to remain a boutique despite dramatic size … [Read more...]
Links Apr 11
Country-by-Country Template Won't Require Entity-by-Entity Financial Details, Andrus, Head of OECD's Transfer Pricing Unit Says Bloomberg BNA See recent TJN blog Submission to OECD on transfer pricing and developing countries … [Read more...]
Links Apr 10
Argentina tax chief Ricardo Etchegaray met with Swiss Ambassador La Nacion (In Spanish) Hat tip: Jorge Gaggero - the "tax cosmetics" continue. See also recent Guest blog: Should Argentina sign a tax treaty with Switzerland? … [Read more...]
Links Apr 9
UK demands exemption from EU trust registry plan STEP The UK government has confirmed that it will oppose clauses in the EU's Fourth Money Laundering Directive that would force all trusts to identify their beneficiaries in publicly accessible registries. … [Read more...]
Links Apr 8
Getting the rules right - Interview with John Christensen, executive director, Tax Justice Network Cayman Financial Review … [Read more...]
Quote of the day: offshore London
From Britain's Telegraph newspaper, an article entitled Cool London is dead, and the rich kids are to blame: "Tax empty houses? Why, no. We wouldn’t want to upset some ex-KGB thug who looted the Kazakh treasury in the mid 1990s. We wouldn’t want to annoy a banker who “honestly” didn’t know he … [Read more...]
Links Apr 3
Illicit capital flows are the elephant in the EU-Africa summit room EurActiv More Countries Agree to Help U.S. Crack Down on Tax Dodgers The Wall Street Journal See also: US Prepares To Enforce 45 FATCA Pacts Tax-News, U.S. gives foreign banks more time on anti-tax dodge law Reuters, and Leaked … [Read more...]
Links Apr 2
Cayman Islands’ government terminates Lord Blencathra’s lobbying contract The Bureau of Investigative Journalism See also: Lobbying row: Cayman Islands cut ties with Tory peer Lord Blencathra by mutual consent after revelations by The Independent … [Read more...]
Reports: the sorry state of U.S. tax dodging multinationals
Two major reports are worth highlighting here. First, and most recently, from the U.S. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (via Senator Carl Levin), a report on tax avoidance by U.S. multinational Caterpillar: "Caterpillar Inc., an American manufacturing icon, used a wholly owned Swiss … [Read more...]
Links Mar 31
Lord Blencathra’s contract with Cayman Islands stated he would lobby MPs and Lords The Bureau of Investigative Journalism A senior UK politician who denied he had ever lobbied MPs and peers on behalf of a Caribbean tax haven had signed a £12,000 per month contract that stated he would do so. See … [Read more...]
Tanzania: parliamentary inquiry on tax abuses, tax havens, illicit flows
Adapted from an email from Tove Maria Ryding, Eurodad: Good news from Tanzania - the Public Accounts Committee there has kicked off an inquiry on tax evasion and avoidance, amid severe concerns about illicit financial flows and capital flight. We might have some interesting times … [Read more...]
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice
The Offshore Wrapper is written by George Turner Tax avoidance in Africa – worse than we thought … [Read more...]
