Tag: Tax haven

A press review on "aggressive corporate tax planning" by Fabio De Masi

Presentation of the studies “The Impact of Schemes revealed by the Panama Papers on the Economy and Finances of a Sample of Member States” and "Fighting tax crimes – Cooperation between Financial Intelligence Units. Ex-Post Impact Assessment."

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 ...

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 ...

Members from the European Parliament’s Committee of Inquiry into Money Laundering, Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion (PANA) will be paying a two-day visit to Luxembourg today - in the third of a series of fact-finding missions to investigate practices of tax evasion and money laundering, including breaches of EU law ...

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 ...

The European Parliament’s Committee of Inquiry into Money Laundering, Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion (PANA) is going today, 9 February, to the United Kingdom on its first of four fact finding missions. Further visits will take place in Malta, Luxembourg and the United States. Fabio De Masi (GUE/NGL), ...

Politico, 11.01.2017 "[...]  One of the committee’s vice chairs, German MEP Fabio De Masi, challenged the Maltese government to prove its dedication toward tackling tax avoidance as part of its EU presidency, to make up for previous misdemeanors. “Malta is hardly a credible broker ...

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 ...

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 ...