By Barry Finnegan* (Griffith College) Barry Finnegan is a programme director and senior lecturer at the Faculty of Journalism & Media Communications, Griffith College. He is also a researcher with the Irish branch of the international civil … [Read more...]
10 Reasons Why an Intergovernmental UN Tax Body Will Benefit Everyone.
A key step towards a coherent global system. Currently, the international tax system consists of a complicated web of thousands of bilateral tax treaties and different parallel international systems to regulate, for example, information exchange and … [Read more...]
Letter to Chancellor Kern from European Civil Society Organisations
H.E. Christian Kern Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria October 6, 2016 Federal Chancellery Ballhausplatz 2 1010 Vienna Austria Your Excellency, Chancellor Kern We, the undersigned, wish to commend you on the concern you have … [Read more...]
Free Trade and Investment, Tax and Human Rights, Part II – Tax
In “The Hidden Wealth of Nations”, Gabriel Zucman writes: “(w)e can no longer continue to liberalize trade while completely ignoring the problems of fiscal dissimulation.” In the World Investment Report 2015, we read: “Ongoing anti-avoidance … [Read more...]
Thirteen Billion, Lucky for Some?
By Tony Phillips, Attac. (First published in the Irish Left Review). Cork is a pretty city on the river Lee in the south of Ireland where I lived for part of my childhood. Cupertino in the Silicon Valley is the HQ of Apple Inc. As an Irishman and … [Read more...]