Tag: Tax

  • Press review: PANA Committee Meeting in Malta

    The press reported about the PANA Committee Meeting in Malta

    Parliament's committee of inquiry into the Panama Papers scandal has this week sent an MEP delegation to Malta. The Parliament Magazin, 20.02.2017 "[...] Further comment came from Fabio De Masi, a Vice-Chair of the committee, who said, "With a corporate tax rate of just five per cent and an almost 100 per cent tax refund for shareholders, Malta has one of the most lenient corporate tax regimes in the EU, which in turn facilitates the laundering of criminal money ...

  • Press review: Harmonisation of EU anti-money laundering legislation

    moneylaundering.com, 08.02.2017 "More severe penalties may lie in wait for financial institutions deemed to have deficient compliance programs under an EU proposal to tackle money laundering, say sources. The plan by the European Commission would lower the threshold at which businesses could be ...

  • Press review: PANA Committee Meeting in London

    Der Untersuchungsausschuss des Europaparlaments PANA ist am 09.Februar 2017 zu der ersten von vier Hintergrundreisen nach Großbritannien aufgebrochen. Dazu hat Fabio De Masi eine Pressemitteilung veröffentlicht. Wir dokumentieren hier die Presseberichterstattung. Bloomberg, 10.02.2017 "The U ...

  • Press review: Maltese finance minister in the European Parliament

    Maltese finance minister Edward Scicluna visit the European Parliament’s committee for economic affairs

    Malta Today, 26.01.2017 "Maltese finance minister Edward Scicluna had to defend Malta’s tax imputation system, as MEPs in the European Parliament’s committee for economic affairs questioned the country’s suitability to tackle anti-money laundering and taxation laws. Scicluna, who is heading European ...

  • Press review: Juncker-Leaks

    The press reported about the Juncker-Leaks

    Deutschsprachige Presse FAZ, 02.01.2016 "[...] Dass Luxemburg den Kampf gegen die Steuervermeidung immer wieder blockierte, ist allgemein bekannt. Die Regierung hatte sich aber noch unter Juncker dem zunehmenden internationalen Druck gebeugt und die vorgeschlagenen Schritte nicht mehr verwehrt ...

  • Code of Conduct group: Finance Ministers must end blockade of tax justice

    A press release of Fabio De Masi

    The British newspaper The Guardian published additional research on the cables of the German government containing detailed reports of the high level Code of Conduct group on business taxation. The group is supposed to tackle unfair tax practices of member states to favour transnational corporations ...

  • Press review: EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive

    Bloomberg about the EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive and the role of the member states

    Bloomberg BNA "[...] “Member states act as if the Panama Papers and Bahamas Leaks scandals had not happened,” Fabio de Masi, a German member of the European Parliament, told Bloomberg BNA Dec. 14. “Access restrictions to corporate registers are inefficient, costly to administer and run counter to the fundamental idea of transparency ...

  • GUE/NGL MEPs stand in solidarity with LuxLeaks defendants ahead of trial

    A press release of Fabio De Masi

    Ahead of the second LuxLeaks trial starting this afternoon in Luxembourg, a delegation from GUE/NGL group at the European Parliament will be outside the courthouse to show full solidarity with the two whistleblowers, Antoine Deltour and Raphaël Halet, and the journalist Edouard Perrin. Perrin was acquitted of all charges back in June 2016 whilst both Deltour and Halet were given suspended sentences ...

  • Press review: Global Tax Transparency Summit in London

    The press reported about the Global Tax Transparency Summit in London on December 8rd.

    Fabio De Masi speaks on the Global Tax Transparency Summit on December 8rd in London. The UK-Press reported about the conference and quotes him. Public Finance International, 09.12.2016 "[...] At another panel session, Fabio de Masi, a German MEP who sits on the European Parliament’s Panama Papers inquiry committee, agreed there was a long way to go ...

  • Press review: Raphael Halet - the silent man of LuxLeaks

    Politico reported about the LuxLeaks whistleblower Raphael Halet

    Politico, 12.08.2016 "For more than a year after he was charged in the so-called LuxLeaks trial, Raphael Halet was unable to defend himself. The former PricewaterhouseCoopers employee believed he was prohibited by contract from explaining why he had sent a journalist documents detailing the controversial tax practices of companies like Ikea, Amazon and Apple ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...
  • Video

    Whistleblower protection: What must be done?

    You can watch the panel Whistleblowers experiences and reactions with Fabio De Masi at minute 50:59 Prominent whistleblowers, journalists and experts will participate, sharing experiences, recommendations and discussing how whistleblowers could be protected, analysing at the same time all political and legal aspects and how to take this issue forward at a European level ...

  • 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 ...

  • EU plans on blacklisting tax havens akin to a whitewash

    A press release of Fabio De Masi

    In light of today’s meeting of EU finance ministers on unitary taxation (CCCTB) and to draw up plans for a blacklist of tax havens across the world, GUE/NGL MEP, Fabio De Masi, Vice-President of the Committee of Inquiry into Money Laundering, Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion (PANA) has described some of the proposals as “grotestque” and insufficient ...

  • Press review: Corporate taxes

    EUObserver referred about the corporate taxe proposal and quote Fabio De Masi. Here you can find the press relase and the Fabio's speech in the european parliament. EUObserver, 27.10.2016 "[...] German far-left MEP Fabio De Masi said the rules to determine which enterprises belong to the same company were not defined well enough ...

  • Commission proposals on CCCTB fall short of expectation

    A press release of Fabio De Masi

    The European Commission has launched controversial new proposals on corporate tax which not only aim to harmonise the tax base across the EU but also to prevent multinationals from negotiating secretive tax arrangements. Under the Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB), there will be a single set of rules to calculate companies' taxable profits within the EU ...

  • The role of Malta in the Panama-scandal

    Malta Today berichtet über die Rolle Maltas im Panama-Skandal

    Malta Today, 25.10.2016 "In a week that saw Italian channel RAI 3’s Report once again putting the focus on Malta’s role in the Panama Papers scandal as the country gets ready to take on the EU presidency, critical voices from inside the European Parliament – like German left-wing MEP Fabio de Masi – have been given some deserved attention in the press ...
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