” Även den obebodda pingvinön Heard and McDonald utanför Australien beläggs med tullar. ”
Man kan skratta åt detta men för att undvika kryphål är det helt rätt tänkt.
Synd bara att det inte var skatteflykt det handlade om.
” Även den obebodda pingvinön Heard and McDonald utanför Australien beläggs med tullar. ”
Man kan skratta åt detta men för att undvika kryphål är det helt rätt tänkt.
Synd bara att det inte var skatteflykt det handlade om.
The US led the charge against global corruption. Now Trump is clearing the way for kleptocrats | Oliver Bullough https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/17/donald-trump-us-corruption-kleptocracy-britain-corruption-law-oligarchs #USforeignpolicy #Foreignpolicy #Taxhavens #Worldnews #Politics #Business #UKnews #USnews
London is the epicentre of global financial corruption, so guess what?
“Labour shamefully blocks a UN global crackdown on tax havens”
by Ed Sykes in The Canary @thecanaryuk
“The British public sorely needs to wake up to the destruction corrupt governments like Labour’s have brought both at home & abroad with their extreme servility to corporate interests”
#Press #UK #Starmer #Labour #UN #TaxHavens #Vote #Block #LabourCorruption
#LabourFriendsOfBigBusiness
Warning this is maddening, especially given that the top 1% are responsible for most of the #climatechange. They have the money to pay for it too, estimated 700 billion left untaxed every year "Brooke Harrington, author of Offshore, on how and where the mega-rich stash their cash"
"Freeports are both a massive folly, and a deeply misguided and even dangerous attempt to recreate offshore tax environments within the UK."
#UKpolitics #Freeports #TaxAvoidance #TaxHavens
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/09/26/freeports-should-be-abolished/
UK “Labour” Party got a £4million donation from a hedge fund based in the Cayman Islands, OpenDemocracy reveals.
Let’s hope this telling bit of campaign finance doesn’t get buried under the Starmer dresses, tickets and freebies scandal.
Labour given £4m from tax haven-based hedge fund with shares in oil and arms
Quadrature’s donation is noteworthy not just for being Labour’s largest-ever, but for its timing ahead of election
The #Labour Party’s largest-ever donation came from a Cayman Islands-registered hedge fund with shares worth hundreds of millions of pounds in #FossilFuels, private health firms, #arms manufacturers and asset managers.
Secondly, any form of supplying public infrastructure through "public private partnerships" or equivalent scams – introduced by #Conservatives under John Major, popularised by #Labour under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and slavishly followed by the #SNP in years since – is equally a deliberate policy choice to transfer wealth from citizens to investors – and usually an effective choice to transfer wealth from your own economy to #TaxHavens
Trillions of dollars of fossil fuel finance routed via tax havens, study says #fossilfuels #taxhavens #banks https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/trillions-dollars-fossil-fuel-finance-routed-via-tax-havens-study-says-2024-09-11/
A priori plutôt #OCDE vs #ResteDuMonde
"For decades, the #OECD has dominated international #tax policy. But in recent years criticism over the outsized power wielded by wealthy countries in its closed-door decision-making has grown, including at the top levels of the U.N."
“ #TaxHavens and corporate #lobbyists have had too much influence on global #taxPolicy at the OECD for too long,”
Le Costa Rica, membre OCDE, par ex s'était abstenu en 2023.
#TaxHavens:
Margaret Hodge, former Labour MP and a prominent critic of illicit finance, criticized the U.K. for its lack of action. The BVI “is supporting evil across the world. It’s a security issue, it’s not just a financial issue. If we’re supporting kleptocrats, facilitating drug money, we’re supporting instability around the world,” she said.
https://www.politico.eu/article/virgin-islands-andrew-fahie-corruption-britain-tries-to-clean-up-its-dirtiest-secret/
4/ #Pharmariesen haben > 1.300 #Tochtergesellschaften in #Niedrigsteuergebieten.
#Patient*innen müssen wg. hoher #Arzneimittelpreise gefährl. lang warten
#DeadlyPrices
#Pharmafirms stash profits in Europe's #taxhavens as patients struggle with #drugprices
https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/deadly-prices-pharma-firms-stash-profits-in-europes-tax-havens-as-patients-struggle-with-drug-prices
World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2024/apr/25/billionaires-should-pay-minimum-two-per-cent-wealth-tax-say-g20-ministers #Globaldevelopment #Thesuper-rich #Climatecrisis #Taxavoidance #SouthAfrica #Environment #Inequality #Taxhavens #Worldnews #Business #Germany #Brazil #Spain #G20
World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2024/apr/25/billionaires-should-pay-minimum-two-per-cent-wealth-tax-say-g20-ministers #Globaldevelopment #Thesuper-rich #Climatecrisis #Taxavoidance #SouthAfrica #Environment #Inequality #Taxhavens #Worldnews #Business #Germany #Brazil #Spain #G20
Panama Papers: trial begins of 27 Mossack Fonseca employees https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/09/panama-papers-trial-begins-of-27-mossack-fonseca-employees #PanamaPapers #Taxhavens #Worldnews #Americas #Business #Panama
Panama Papers: trial begins of 27 Mossack Fonseca employees https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/09/panama-papers-trial-begins-of-27-mossack-fonseca-employees #PanamaPapers #Taxhavens #Worldnews #Americas #Business #Panama
Twenty-seven people are set to go on trial on Monday for money laundering in connection with the "Panama Papers" tax evasion scandal, which revealed how many of the world's wealthy stashed assets in offshore companies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/04/08/world/crime-legal/panama-papers-trial-tax-scandal/ #worldnews #crimelegal #panamapapers #panama #taxhavens #taxes #businessethics
The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire | The Secret World of Finance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np_ylvc8Zj8
https://taxjustice.net/2018/11/30/the-spiders-web-documentary-viewed-over-one-million-times-on-youtube/
#economy #finance #taxhavens #offshore #documentary
The EU Tax Observatory on profit shifting by US MNCs:
Almost no revenue was 'booked' in tax havens in the late 1970s, but over half of their profits are booked in #taxhavens in recent years.
We can imagine that UK and European corporations are acting in similar ways.
So given by their very nature tax havens are not the location of actual #business operations, this is money being stolen from #taxpayers.
Global #tax reform is urgently needed to halt this theft!
h/t Rana Foroohar (FT)
@TJ1001 @freequaybuoy I believe that #Brexit was LED by #billionaire #TaxAvoiders who felt that their (mainly British) #TaxHavens were under threat from EU anti tax avoidance legislation. But they dressed it up in #racism to persuade those who weren't billionaires and didn't keep their wealth in tax havens to vote for it.