Miguel Viegas is today in Lisbon in a mission of the Panama Papers’ Inquiry Committee in representation of GUE/NGL. During the several hearings held today, it remains clear that there is no political will to attack fiscal fraud and tax evasion nor money laundering. 10 billion...
Below is a joint statement from the PANA Bureau. The chairs, vice-chairs and co-rapporteurs of the European Parliament’s Committee of Inquiry into Money Laundering, Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion (PANA) call on the Council to become more transparent on taxation issues and to work shoulder-to-shoulder with...
Yesterday the Juncker Commission presented an initiative to curb the problem of aggressive tax planning as part of a set of measures to increase tax transparency and tackle tax avoidance and tax evasion in the European Union. The proposal is aimed at the enablers and...
In a joint meeting on Monday evening, the Committee for Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and the Committee for Legal Affairs (JURI) adopted the report on Country-by-Country reporting. It obliges multinational corporations with an annual net turnover of 750 million euros and above to publicly...
...where are we, and where are we going to? In an international news publication coordinated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), 11 million leaked documents from the law firm Mossack Fonseca in Panama revealed a global network of shell companies and hidden bank accounts...