June 13th, 2014
A new report in
The Economist goes to great lengths to detail the corrupt regime of
ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, as well as the broader systematic corruption that has plagued the country since the end of the Soviet era.
June 12th, 2014
Four years ago
the Tax Justice Network wrote about FIFA’s so-called African “tax bubble” where FIFA was forcing a poor African country to forego its potential football tax revenues in order to funnel yet more money into FIFA’s gilded Zürich headquarters and its lucrative empire. We quoted Professor Han Kogels of Erasmus University, Rotterdam, who said:
“They want to create their own tax haven. A fully exempt situation. That is, FIFA and its FIFA subsidiaries that are fully exempt from any tax whatsoever levied at every level – state level, municipal level. All sorts of taxes: consumption taxes, income taxes...
June 11th, 2014
The Tax Justice Network, a coordinating member of the FTC, just released the latest edition of their newsletter,
Tax Justice Focus. This edition focuses on the theme of tax justice and human rights, perhaps the fastest-growing area of interest in the rapidly expanding global tax justice community.
Click here for the full edition of
Tax Justice Focus, the Human Rights edition.
You can also access the individual articles below.
June 11th, 2014
It’s been months since the
ousting of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. As the walls of the old regime come down, more and more stories of anonymous companies, often those with no walls at all, continue to come to light.
A new report from the AP has highlighted the massive extent that anonymous companies—fake companies set up to funnel money undetected—were, and still are, a part of Ukraine’s rampant corruption problem.
