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Bono: helping make poverty reality

12-Jun-08

I haven’t written about Bono for a while, although what I have written about him remains among the regularly read pages on this blog.
It’s time I did so again. There’s good reason. I know the messages of tax justice have reached the man. I know how they got there. And in the last couple of […]

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The US moves against the biggest tax havens

20-Aug-07

The US is targeting the biggest tax havens in the world. The FT reports that:

A pledge by Democrats in Congress to crack down on tax avoidance and to pay for spending measures as they are approved has put the practices of a range of international companies under the spotlight.

“These multinationals avoid US taxation on their […]

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Irish action

06-Mar-07

I was in action in the Irish press as well as that of the UK this last weekend. The Sunday Tribune ran a major feature on growing worldwide concerns about Ireland’s behaviour as a tax haven.
Two things struck me about this report. The first is the persistence of the Irish government in denying this glaringly […]

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Good news from the Netherlands

22-Nov-06

My Dutch colleagues have given me feedback on the reception of the report we co-authored for SOMO to which I referred yesterday.
The report, entitled ‘The Netherlands: A tax haven?‘ has been discussed in the Dutch parliament. As Francis Weyzig noted:

The finance minister questioned our report, which was to be expected, but he also stated that […]

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The Netherlands: A Tax Haven?

21-Nov-06

I guess it’s fairly obvious that there is a short answer to the above question. It is ‘yes’. The Netherlands is a notorious tax haven.
Equally, those who know me also know that whilst I’m happy to draw unambiguous conclusions, I like to do so in the basis of reasoned argument. This is a case in […]

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Heavy Mittal

03-Oct-06

I mentioned I’ve been doing a fair amount of work for the conventional printed media of late: today brings publication of another report in which I have had a research role.
Global Witness have produced a report on the activities of Mittal Steel in Liberia. These are extraordinary. In 2005 Mittal took over iron ore concessions […]

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Bono’s choice

20-Aug-06

Holiday is a great time for reflection. It’s also an opportunity to stand back from the day to day and to view the bigger picture. But sometimes a story from the day to day invades that bigger picture. The story of Bono’s tax planning that erupted into the news a couple of weeks ago was […]

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Rolling Stones and the Netherlands

02-Aug-06

Most people think that tax havens are small islands with palm trees, remote from anywhere.
But that just isn’t true. For example, Accountancy Age has reported how the Rolling Stones have used the Netherlands to reduce the tax rate on tier royalties to under 2% in the last 20 years by locating their royalty collecting […]

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