Tag: Tax Justice

  • Video: Tax evasion under scrutiny in EU

    The EU is to attac tax avoidance and tax evasion. Commission suggests a directive that would make lawyers and accountants whistle-blowers when they detect tax avoidance in their customers tax planning.

    The EU is to attac tax avoidance and tax evasion. Commission suggests a directive that would make lawyers and accountants whistle-blowers when they detect tax avoidance in their customers tax planning.
  • Accountants face fines for aggressive corporate tax planning under draft EU law

    Tax advisers in the European Union risk fines for helping companies to cut their tax bills by shifting profits to low-tax countries, if proposed new EU legislation gets approval.

    Tax advisers in the European Union risk fines for helping companies to cut their tax bills by shifting profits to low-tax countries, if proposed new EU legislation gets approval.
  • PANA Bureau calls on Council to be more transparent about tax matters and money laundering

    The leading members of the PANA committee call on the Council for more transparency on tax issues and to work with the Parliament in the fight against money laundering and tax evasion.

    The leading members of the PANA committee call on the Council for more transparency on tax issues and to work with the Parliament in the fight against money laundering and tax evasion.
  • Scandalous LuxLeaks whistleblower verdict upheld

    A press release of Fabio De Masi

    LuxLeaks whistleblowers Antoine Deltour and Raphael Halet have seen their conviction for theft upheld in today’s appeal court verdict. Deltour received a six month suspended prison sentence and a 1500€ fine and Halet a 1000€. The journalist Edouard Perrin was again acquitted of the charges brought against him by the prosecutor ...
  • Urgent reform of Code of Conduct Group long overdue in fight against tax dumping

    A press release of Fabio De Masi

    More than two years after the LuxLeaks scandal, MEPs have tonight been debating on the merits and recommendations for reforming the Code of Conduct Group on business taxation (CoCG) at the March plenary in Strasbourg.   During its 19-year existence, the CoCG has pursued its objective of combating ...
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    Lux Leaks: solidarity with whistle-blowers and journalists

    A videostatement of Fabio De Masi

    Countries in the European Union are losing hundreds of billions of euros each year due to tax dumping and tax avoidance by large multinationals. The whistleblowers Antoine Deltour and Raphael Halet, together with the journalist Edouard Perrin, made the scandalous sweetheart deals with these companies public in the LuxLeaks ...
  • 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: 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
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