This briefing from Eurodad member ActionAid UK traces the link between tax avoidance and gender inequality.
Tax Justice
The Impact of Letterbox-type Practices on Labour Rights and Public Revenue: four case studies
This report from Eurodad member SOMO and the ETUC reveals how businesses use ‘letterbox practices’ to not only lower corporate taxes, but to get around labour laws and collective agreement.
- Tax Justice
- SOMO
Freedom to Move
This report from Eurodad member ActionAid looks at womens' experience of urban public transport in Bangladesh, Brazil and Nigeria. It finds that the specific needs of women and girls are not cared for and they are vulnerable to violence and less able to fully access their rights.
- Gender Justice
- ActionAid
Survival of the richest: Europe’s role in supporting an unjust global tax system 2016
After a wave of international tax scandals, the group of European governments in favour of greater tax transparency is finally beginning to grow. However, the battle is not yet won, as a number of governments remain opposed.
- Tax Justice
- Stop Tax Dodging
Development Finance Institutions and Responsible Corporate Tax Behaviour: Where we are and the road ahead
This analysis shows how many DFIs are still not doing enough to eliminate the risk of public money being complicit in tax avoidance schemes.
- Development Finance
For whose benefit? A different perspective on Tax Inspectors Without Borders
Taxation of multinational corporations is of utmost importance to developing countries, which on average generate around 10% of government revenues from this source. However, there are clear indications that the current international system is not working. One type of tax avoidance alone is currently costing developing countries between $70 billion and $120 billion per year. While often considered highly immoral, such international tax avoidance is often, technically speaking, legal.
- Tax Justice
Letting the Public In: Opportunities and Standards for Open Data on Beneficial Ownership, Country-by-Country Reporting and Automatic Exchange of Financial Information
The Financial Transparency Coalition has launched a new working paper, Letting the Public In, which explores what it means to have information in open data formats, how to develop ‘gold standards’ that governments can adhere to, and what a data revolution can mean for financial transparency and illicit financial flows.
- Tax Justice
- Financial Transparency Coalition
The dark side of EIB funds: How the EU’s bank supports non-transparent investment funds based in tax havens
Counter Balance has launched a report that critically analyses a little-known part of the European Investment Bank (EIB)’s operations: its use of private equity funds.
- Tax Justice
- Counter Balance
Eurodad media response to the decision in the Ireland-Apple State Aid case
Today the European Commission ordered Ireland to retrieve €13 billion in unpaid taxes from tech giant Apple, after the country was found to have breached EU rules on ‘State Aid’.
- Tax Justice
- Stop Tax Dodging
An Intergovernmental UN Tax Body – why we need it and how we can get it
The Group of 77, representing more than 130 developing countries, have repeatedly proposed the establishment of an intergovernmental body under the United Nations (UN), to fix the broken global tax system. This briefing details ten reasons why this proposal would benefit everyone – and how it can be done.
- Tax Justice
- Stop Tax Dodging