New Delhi: Paris-based think-tank OECD has mooted the idea of sending experts to developing countries, including India, to help in issues such as transfer pricing besides various bilateral taxation-related matters.
PARIS – Investors who want to ensure their money supports ethical concerns should add tax behaviour to the criteria by which companies are judged, Christian Aid says today.
LONDON – Policy makers are failing to live up to the pledges of the world’s most powerful nations to tackle tax haven secrecy, according to the latest findings of an index that analyses the contribution different jurisdictions make to this global threat.
Task Force and Global Financial Integrity Director Raymond Baker speaks at an event sponsored by Christian Aid in Manchester. He explains how the shadow financial system works, and how it causes tremendous human tragedy.
PARIS – La conférence annuelle de la « Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development » 1 se déroulera au Cercle National des Armées, à Paris, les 6 et 7 octobre prochains. En amont du G20 de Cannes, les participants analyseront les conséquences du système financier souterrain et présenteront les solutions à mettre en œuvre pour enrayer les flux financiers illicites. Les différentes sessions auront notamment pour thème le reporting pays par pays, l’identification des bénéficiaires réels des comptes, l’échange automatique d’informations fiscales, le lien entre blanchiment d’argent et évasion fiscale …
Consultants—including some with criminal pasts—are selling the gambling center as a haven from taxes and legal liability.
LONDON – In a sign of growing anxiety about tax competition that costs governments billions of dollars a year, international economic policymakers are exploring the need for a global crackdown on tax loopholes.
LONDON/MONROVIA – Far-reaching reforms of Liberia’s oil sector are urgently needed if its population is to benefit from future oil discoveries, says a report released today by Global Witness (1) and the Liberian Oil and Gas Initiative (LOGI) (2). As the country heads to the polls in October, and with major oil companies such as US giant Chevron trying to find oil in Liberia, these reforms must be a priority for any new government.
LONDON / WASHINGTON – U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz of Minnesota is an educated man. He earned his law degree from Harvard, won a coveted clerkship for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and taught the law for more than a decade before joining the bench in 2006.But when Wells Fargo, the retail banking giant, and the U.S. Justice Department squared off in his courtroom last year over the legality of a fiendishly complicated tax scheme known as “STARS,’’ even Schiltz quickly realized he was not equipped to parse the facts.“I fear I may finally have met my match,” the judge told the court. “We may need a translator in this case, someone who can help us to understand these complex transactions and understand the complex tax laws to put this into English for us.”
WASHINGTON – G20 ministers’ latest plan to help poor countries misses an opportunity to drive massive change because it neglects action against tax dodgers, says Christian Aid.
WASHINGTON – The world’s most powerful countries may be about to renege on their pledges to help developing nations fight massive tax dodging by multinationals, Christian Aid is warning.
WASHINGTON – The United States’ dual pledge to implement the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and to support legislation that would stop U.S. states from allowing secretive front companies to be set up represents an important step forward in the global fight against corruption and corporate secrecy, said campaign group Global Witness. Announced on Tuesday, September 20th by President Obama, these measures form key elements of the U.S. Open Government Partnership National Action Plan.
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