June 18th, 2009
A June 2009 Norwegian Commission on Capital Flight from Developing Countries report on illicit financial flows from developing countries and tax havens and put forward recommendations for reform efforts to be considered by the Norwegian Government. Drawing on research from Task Force members Global Financial Integrity (GFI) and Tax Justice Network (TJN) to define the
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June 17th, 2009
Global Task Force Releases Recommendations for New Accounting System for Multinational Corporations The Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development (Task Force)* released a report today detailing a new system of accounting for multinational corporations (MNCs) designed to increase transparency and curtail tax evasion. Termed “country-by-country reporting” the new protocol would require MNCs to
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June 11th, 2009
Anti-corruption watchdog, Transparency International UK, today publishes a new report that delves deep into the complex web of legal and regulatory armoury the UK employs to counter money laundering. The report Combating Money Laundering and Recovering Looted Gains is both a review and a critique of the UK system which has been strengthened recently to
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June 10th, 2009
A 2009 report by Gideon Benari This report describes, in plain language, the technical processes and structures of two commonly used tax avoidance schemes – transfer pricing and outward domestication. Both involve multinational corporations shifting profits across borders. Transfer pricing is the setting of prices for internal transactions between two subsidiaries of the same corporation.
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