From the Treasure Islands blog: I've just had an email from Stuart Syvret, a dissident former health minister in the British tax haven of Jersey, who has just got out of prison after challenging the island's financially-dominated oligarchy. The email was in his characteristically forthright … [Read more...]
Inequality & Democracy
Public Eye Awards: Help put FIFA in the Hall of Shame
A while ago we wrote about this reprehensible item from world football's governing body FIFA. This Tax Bubble that FIFA created around the South African world cup - despite FIFA's being a gargantuan, unaccountable billionaire monopolist based in Switzerland - was a particularly shameful example of … [Read more...]
Links Jan 16
The time is now: European Parliament to vote on the Anti-Money Laundering Directive Eurodad See also: Member states split on proposed transparency for trusts legislation IFC Review / European Voice … [Read more...]
Links Jan 14
"BEPS Action Plan: Update on 2014 Deliverables"- Live Webcast Thursday 23 January OECD Hellenic EU Presidency Outlines Priorities Tax-News "Greece will press for the extension of automatic information exchange procedures as part of its six month European Union (EU) Presidency." … [Read more...]
Architect behind Eurozone’s biggest tax haven wants to be EC president
This is a very dangerous development. From Euractiv: "Former Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, the EU's longest-serving elder statesman, threw his hat into the ring yesterday (9 January) for the presidency of the European Commission to succeed José Manuel Barroso. … [Read more...]
Tax justice: a human rights issue
Tax justice: a human rights issue Adrienne Margolis November 2013 If you ask the question “Is tax justice a human rights issue?” you tend to get one of two responses. Some people say of course it is; others can't see the link at all. But if you say there is a relationship between tax and … [Read more...]
Corruption in tax department in El Dorado
Corruption in tax department in El Dorado … [Read more...]
Illicit Capital Flows and the Offshore Economy
For a general "Magnitudes" page giving estimates of the size of illicit financial flows and other measurements that are of interest to TJN, click here. < Update: March 2009. Christian Aid's False Profits: robbing the poor to keep the rich tax-free estimates that between 2005 and 2007, the … [Read more...]
Inequality & Democracy Introduction
Main Page on this topic Other areas of interest Aid, Tax & State-building Capital Flight Corruption Tax Havens & Inequality … [Read more...]
