Race to the Bottom

Event on 26 April: S&D Conference: Together for Tax Justice: Why EU tax policy matters for developing countries Developing countries left out of global tax decisions Eco-Business An obvious solution for offshore: Transparency Economía Crítica (In Spanish) UK’s Chancellor Osborne … [Read more...]

LuxLeaks trial: "Deltour regrets nothing" Luxemburger Wort See also our blog: Will Antoine Deltour become a prisoner of conscience?      Panama Papers: Is the U.S. giving Mossack Fonseca a Pass? Newsweek "There’s an old rule to conducting criminal raids for authorities who would, frankly, … [Read more...]

What the Panama Papers Mean for Global Development Inter Press Service The Panama Papers: Working Towards A Solution Huffington Post Canada Cites @nickshaxson's book Treasure Islands: Tax Havens And The Men Who Stole The World  Broken at the top: How America’s dysfunctional tax system costs … [Read more...]

'A system of privilege and benefits': is a global tax body needed? The Guardian Panama Papers and the broken global tax system ActionAid UK "It is the world’s poorest people who are paying the price." ActionAid: 2016 Make Tax Fair Everywhere Speaker Tour Activists from Africa & Latin … [Read more...]

After ‘Panama Papers’ leak, UN expert calls for end of financial secrecy to halt illicit fund flows UN News Centre Panama Papers Shows Yet Again Why We Need An Intergovernmental Tax Commission In The UN Huffington Post Counting The Cost - Panama Papers: Inside The Shadowy World of Tax Havens … [Read more...]

The Panama Papers: Victims of Offshore ICIJ Video animation: "Behind the email chains, invoices and documents that make up the Panama Papers are often unseen victims of wrongdoing enabled by this shadowy industry. This is their story." The fallout from Panama Papers revelations so far, country … [Read more...]

The Panama Papers’ Sprawling Web of Corruption The New York Times Op Ed: "The papers chronicle a global industry developed to enable an international elite enriched by corrupt or illegal means to conceal its wealth and dealings from taxation, prosecution and public wrath." The Panama Papers … [Read more...]

Panama Papers: Hunting the pinstriped octopus hiding in offshore tax havens International Business Times By TJN director John Christensen Panama is only one head of the tax haven Hydra Financial Times (paywall) By TJN's Nicholas Shaxson, author of Treasure Islands #PanamaPapers - stories … [Read more...]

The Panama Papers: world reacts to huge offshore tax files leak - live The Guardian Panama Papers: Leaks spur global investigations BBC World figures deny wrongdoing as 'Panama Papers' turn spotlight on tax evasion Reuters The Panama Papers - Secrets of the Super Rich abc Panama Papers: … [Read more...]

Unfamiliar with irony, Swiss bankers are complaining of a “lack of transparency” Quartz New Zealand Foreign Trusts and the Unaoil Scandal: More Chickens Coming Home to Roost, and They’re Big naked capitalism See also: Mainstream Media Ignores Blockbuster Expose of Massive Bribery in Iraq by … [Read more...]

There’s A Huge New Corporate Corruption Scandal. Here’s Why Everyone Should Care HuffPost See also: The Bribe Factory The Age / HuffPost - "An extraordinary case of bribery and corruption in the oil industry, centred on Monaco-based company Unaoil". Canada Joins 21st Century Fight against Tax … [Read more...]

The gnomes of Zurich are silent no longer Financial Times "Past actions are catching up with some Swiss banking clients". On links between Brazil's Petrobras, Malaysia's 1MDB, Fifa, and Spanish political slush fund scandals... Swiss banks to cooperate in probe of Venezuela’s state oil and gas … [Read more...]