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24 Jan 18
The UK must remain an international leader in the fight against tax dodging as it leaves the European Union next year, an all-parliamentary group heard yesterday.
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8 Dec 17
The EU’s tax blacklist is just another toothless, empty list, argues George Turner of the Tax Justice Network.
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18 Jul 17
Household goods manufacturer RB has rebutted claims by Oxfam that it set up an international structure to avoid tax in developing countries.
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22 Jun 17
Accountants, tax advisers, lawyers and others who design and sell tax avoidance schemes to their clients could soon be hit with tough new rules in the European Union.
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13 Jun 17
MEPs have been urged to close a “dangerous loophole” recently introduced into draft transparency legislation meant to prevent corporate tax avoidance by large multinationals.
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12 Jun 17
The African Development Bank is to work with the continent’s central banks to help reduce the high levels of capital pouring out of Africa.
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8 Jun 17
More than 70 countries have backed the swift implementation of international measures to limit tax avoidance by multinational companies.
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24 May 17
African nations are subsiding countries far richer than they, research by a group of development charities has found.
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21 Feb 17
The European Council has agreed fresh measures to prevent corporations avoiding tax via countries that are not members of the European Union.
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8 Feb 17
The portion of global investment flowing through tax havens has risen by $700bn in two years, according to an analysis by ActionAid.
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12 Jan 17
Guidance to help developing countries combat tax avoidance achieved through the misuse of transfer pricing mechanisms has been published by the World Bank.
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9 Jan 17
India’s economic growth will slow in the current fiscal year, according to predictions from the country’s statistics agency.
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3 Jan 17
Information on cross-border tax rulings issued within the European Union will now be automatically shared between member states.
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21 Dec 16
Plans for increased tax transparency across the European Union, which would have seen the details of the true owners of secretive companies made public have been watered down by national governments...
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9 Dec 16
International lawmakers have signed an open letter urging their governments to pursue greater tax transparency following a summit on the issue in the UK today.
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1 Dec 16
Tax officials from Kenya are to help their counterparts in Botswana audit multinational firms as part of a tax assistance project under the Tax Inspectors Without Borders (TIWB) programme.
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23 Nov 16
The UK’s aid department is under fire for “astounding” plans to channel billions of pounds more through its controversial private sector arm, which regularly routes funds through tax havens.
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22 Nov 16
‘Aggressive’ reforms in public sector management and governance are needed in Asia-Pacific to mitigate the negative consequences of falling tax-to-GDP ratios, an Asian Development Bank governance...
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3 Oct 16
Thousands of Indian tax evaders have come clean over hidden income and assets worth around $9.8bn under a government amnesty initiative.
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27 Sep 16
The UK’s overseas development department has not done enough to ensure developing nations have a strong voice in the international fight against tax avoidance, according to the country’s aid watchdog...
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23 Sep 16
The European Commission is to publish a draft law setting out EU-wide rules on how companies calculate their tax dues, according to the bloc’s most senior tax official.
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22 Sep 16
Politicians, royalty and convicted criminals are among those named as directors of 175,000 secretive companies registered in the Bahamas, according to another cache of leaked documents published...
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20 Sep 16
Indonesia is launching a criminal case against Google's parent company Alphabet with hopes of obtaining five years’ worth of back taxes, a senior government tax official has told Reuters.
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20 Sep 16
The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into Luxembourg’s tax treatment of the GDF Suez group, over concerns it may have given the company an unfair advantage and breached EU...
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16 Sep 16
Pakistan has become the latest nation to sign up to the OECD’s international cooperation initiative to combat tax avoidance and evasion, the think-tank has announced.