Tag: PANA

  • Rejection anti-money-laundering blacklist: a Left success

    A press release of Fabio De Masi

    Today, Thursday, in a joint meeting of the Committee for Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and the Committee for Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) the Commission's re-worked black list underpinning the anti-money-laundering directive was voted down on the initiative of GUE/NGL. If the result is confirmed in the Parliament's plenary in January, the Commission will have to produce a new list ...
  • MEP Fabio De Masi releases tax returns

    A press release of Fabio De Masi

    GUE/NGL MEP Fabio de Masi, vice-chair of the European Parliament Committee of Inquiry into Money Laundering, Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion (PANA), has announced that he is making public his tax declaration and tax assessment. The release is in protest against widespread tax evasion by the rich and powerful, as revealed in the Lux Leaks, Panama Papers and more recently the Football Leaks, at the expense of ordinary citizens ...
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    Video: Fabio De Masi ask nobel prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Fabio De Masi befragt den Nobelpreisträger Joseph E. Stiglitz im Panamapaper-Untersuchungsausschuss

    Upon GUE/NGL’s invitation, Nobel laureate for Economics, Joseph Stiglitz, and head of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT), José Antonio Campo, today addressed the European Parliament’s Committee of Inquiry into Money Laundering, Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion (PANA) on tax justice and international transparency ...
  • Nobel Prize winner calls for immediate halt to tax havens

    A press release of Fabio De Masi

    Upon GUE/NGL’s invitation, Nobel laureate for Economics, Joseph Stiglitz, and head of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT), José Antonio Campo, today addressed the European Parliament’s Committee of Inquiry into Money Laundering, Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion (PANA) on tax justice and international transparency ...
  • Invitation to the panel event on tax justice featuring Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz

    A press release of Fabio De Masi

    Invitation to the panel event on tax justice featuring Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz 15 November 2016 18h00-19h40 Thon Hotel, Rue de la Loi 75, Brussels   Doubling Down on Tax Competition and Secrecy: Launch of two new reports ‘Four Ways to Tackle Tax Competition’ by the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT)   and   ‘Overcoming the Shadow Economy’ by Swiss anti-corruption expert Mark Pieth and Joseph E ...
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    Fabio De Masi: “Should US be included on blacklist?”.

    Fabio De Masi ask Michael Lennard in the PANA committee

    Fabio De Masi asks Michael Lennard from the United Nations: As we know for many developing countries, transfer pricing is a tough regime which they cannot successfully administer. Now that the EU is discussing country by country reporting and it wants to link it to a blacklist, should we put the US on ...
  • PANA hearing: ICIJ journalists echo our demands

    The European Parliament's Committee of Inquiry into the Panama Papers (PANA) has held its first full hearing today with a number of ICIJ journalists. PANA vice-president Fabio De Masi (DIE LINKE.) comments after the exchange of views:

    "Today's hearing has provided ample evidence that the reaction to the Panama Papers scandal has been entirely insufficient so far. Even with the revised anti-money laundering directive as proposed by the European Commission, offshore money can still be kept under the veil of secrecy thanks to the nominee director loophole ...
  • PANA committee: Time to act against organised crime

    A press release of Fabio De Masi

    The European Parliament’s committee of inquiry into the Panama Papers scandal (PANA) will hold its constitutive meeting today. It has been tasked to investigate alleged contraventions and maladministration of EU law in the fields of money laundering, tax evasion and tax avoidance (see mandate).   Vice-President of PANA, Fabio De Masi, comments:   “This investigation is not only about Panama, but about organised crime and even terrorist financing in our own backyard ...
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