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The outstanding film “The Spider’s Web” is now available on Vimeo
Michel Oswald’s outstanding documentary film The Spider’s Web is now available at vimeo on demand: https://vimeo.com/244075130 for $3.99 BRAVE NEW EUROPE reviewed the film. To read the review please click here To view the […]
Finance
Tax Justice Network: #ParadisePapers and the Big Four: in the words of a former insider
“Leading estimates show that profit shifting by multinational companies is responsible for tax revenue losses globally of $500 billion or more each year. Various document leaks, including the Paradise Papers and earlier LuxLeaks, have shown […]
EU politics
Robert de Vries and Aaron Reeves: Why do people care more about benefit ‘scroungers’ than billions lost to the rich?
The authors identify a phenomenon that we saw in the election of Donald Trump as president of the USA: People identify with the rich and powerful – to which they will never belong – rather than […]
Finance
Tax Justice Network – #ParadisePapers: residency for sale to the rich and famous
Among the scandals exposed by the Paradise Papers is that of residency for sale, something Tax Justice Network covered just last month (along with passports for sale) as a special feature in their monthly podcast […]
Finance
Sigrún Davíðsdóttir’s Icelog: Paradise Papers and the onshore heart of the offshore industry
“The Paradise Papers emphasises, yet again, that the damaging effect of offshore is much more pervasive that robbing countries of tax. Offshore creates a two-tier business environment, hiding ownership and in general throwing an opaque […]
Finance
United Nations Human Rights Council – Paradise Papers: States must act against “abusive” tax conduct of corporations
While the media and those financial services involved in tax crimes keep parroting “This is completely legal”, the United Nations Human Rights Council emphasises that it is a question of not only complying with the […]
EU politics
Big Capital – who is London for? by Anna Minton
Book Review by Andrew Purves This is a short, informative and journalistic study of London’s housing crisis. It describes the effect of high housing costs – both to buy and rent, and gives many case […]
Finance
Tax Justice Network: Enough evidence on trusts – where are the State’s actions?
Our two last papers on trusts (here and here) described trusts’ involvement in grand corruption and other cases that would anger any rational person. The Paradise Papers, and recent case law, shed outrageous new light on trusts’ […]
Finance
Gabriel Zucman: The desperate inequality behind global tax dodging
Nearly 10% of the world’s wealth is held offshore by a few individuals. The rest of us pay the price for this theft Read here