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...]
Claudine Gaidoni: “Tax dodging by Multinationals, a human rights violation”
ATTAC.IE Taxation Expert Claudine Gaidoni: Transnational corporations violate human rights by using tax avoidance mechanisms. Interview: Victoria Mutti, Nueva Sociedad, Argentina ( Originally published in Spanish New Society ) Mutti: Tax … [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...]
Civil disobedience versus tax-avoiders – new UK campaign. (Press Release).
The Golden Rule Tax Disobedience: effective democracy now! Today sees the launch of a major tax rebellion civil disobedience across the UK, by the grass roots organisation “Compassionate Revolution”. The group is calling for at least 5,000 people … [Read more...]
