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  • MEP Miguel Urban Crespo on the TAX3 draft report

    GUE/NGL’s shadow rapporteur in the European Parliament’s TAX3 Special Committee, MEP Miguel Urban Crespo (Podemos), comments on the TAX3 draft report presented by EPP and S&D co-rapporteurs. Read more about it here....

    04 December, 2018No comment
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  • ECON and FEMM committees adopt report on gender equality and taxation policies

    The ECON and FEM committees adopted yesterday the Report on gender equality and taxation policies in the EU (A8-0416_2018_EN) to which GUE/NGL MEP Marisa Matias (Bloco de Esquerda) was a co-rapporteur together with the Greens MEP, Ernest Urtasun....

    22 November, 2018No comment
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  • What did MEP Miguel Viegas have to say about the Cum Ex Scandal?

    GUE/NGL’s MEP in the TAX3 Special Committee Miguel Viegas’s (PCP) intervention in the European Parliament’s plenary debate on the ‘«CumEx Files» Scandal: financial crime and the loopholes of the current judicial framework’ of Tuesday 23 of October...

    24 October, 2018No comment
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  • What did MEP Miguel Urban Crespo have to say about the Cum Ex Scandal?

    GUE/NGL’s MEP Shadow in the TAX3 Special Committee Miguel Urban Crespo’s (Podemos) intervention in the European Parliament’s plenary debate on the ‘«CumEx Files» Scandal: financial crime and the loopholes of the current judicial framework’ of Tuesday 23 of October Read More here and here...

    24 October, 2018No comment
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  • What did MEP Martin Schirdewan have to say about the Cum Ex Scandal?

    GUE/NGL’s MEP Coordinator in the TAX3 Special Committee Martin Schirdewan’s (DIE LINKE) intervention in the European Parliament’s plenary debate on the ‘«CumEx Files» Scandal: financial crime and the loopholes of the current judicial framework’ of Tuesday 23 of October Read More here and here...

    24 October, 2018No comment
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  • MEP Matt Carthy addresses the Chair of the Code of Conduct Group Chair

    MEP Matt Carthy questioned the lack of transparency of the Code of Conduct Group on Business Taxation, the unclear criteria used to exclude harmful tax regimes such as the US’ from being listed, and the lack of criticism to British patent boxes. Read more about......

    11 October, 2018No comment
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  • MEP Marisa Matias inquires Commissioner Vera Jourova on gender inequality and money laundering

    Being Commissioner Jourová responsible for gender equality in addition to justice, GUE/NGL MEP in the Tax3 Committee, Marisa Matias (Bloco de Esquerda), decided to give the TAX3 meeting a turn by inquiring Vera Jourová on whether the Commission had put forward any proposals to address......

    28 June, 2018No comment
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  • The new Paradise Papers leak and the last steps before the voting on PANA Recommendations

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    20 November, 2017No comment
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  • Agujeros fiscales provocan fugas de la economía en el mundo, según Miguel Urban

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    07 November, 2017No comment
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  • The Big Four – A study of opacity

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    05 July, 2017No comment
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  • Miguel Viegas comenta sobre o reporte país a país (CBCR)

    The European Commission has presented a series of Directives aimed at tackling tax evasion and tax avoidance. The proposal for an EU Country-by-Country Reporting (proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2013/34/EU as regards disclosure of income tax......

    26 June, 2017No comment
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  • Miguel Viegas comenta sobre Madeira na Missão dos Panama Papers em Portugal

    Tax haven Madeira was discussed during the Panama Paper’s Inquiry Committee Mission to Lisbon. Even when the right still defends the existence of the fiscal regime in Madeira, and did so during the mission, there is enough evidence to show that such regime does not......

    23 June, 2017No comment
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  • Miguel Viegas comenta sobre a Missão dos Panama Papers em Portugal

    Miguel Viegas went to Lisbon, representing GUE/NGL on a Mission of the Panama Papers’ Inquiry Committee to gather information on money laundry and tax evasion. Portugal had 10 billion Euros flying to tax havens without any control between 2011 and 2014. And every day, 2.3 million......

    22 June, 2017No comment
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  • Fabio De Masi casting doubt on Joseph Muscat and Malta’s money-laundering role

    During a plenary in Strasbourg on the 14th of June the newly re-elected Prime Minister of Malta, Joseph Muscat, endured a barrage of criticisms concerning money-laundering violations in Malta as well as his own integrity in relation to recent ‘Panama Papers’ leaks. Speaking in Strasbourg,......

    15 June, 2017No comment
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  • The Panama Papers one year on

    Watch GUE/NGL’s video on the anniversary of the Panama Papers....

    03 April, 2017No comment
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  • Fabio De Masi in EP plenary on reform of CoCG

    The European Parliament’s LuxLeaks special committees (TAXE/TAX2) had urgently called for a reform of the Council’s Code of Conduct Group on business taxation, which has however still not progressed. Fabio De Masi lays out our criticism at the slow pace of reform in his plenary......

    17 March, 2017No comment
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  • Fabio De Masi on verdict in LuxLeaks whistleblower trial

    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......

    15 March, 2017No comment
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  • Former Berenberg compliance officer gives insights into bank’s shady clients, while CEO refuses to stand in front of committee

    For GUE/NGL MEP Fabio De Masi Berenberg CEO Hans-Walter Peters’ no-show in front of the PANA inquiry committee is a guilty plea. The  banker also refused to appear in front of the committee in his role as the President of the Association of German Banks,......

    09 February, 2017No comment
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  • GUE/NGL MEP Miguel Viegas concerned about conflict of interest in regulatory bodies

    In his question to the panel GUE/NGL MEP Miguel Viegas raises concerns about the conflict of interests he sees regulatory authorities confronted with. He also asks for the panel’s opinion on whether tax administrations, criminal prosecution agencies and other public bodies are underfunded and understaffed......

    24 January, 2017No comment
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  • GUE/NGL MEP Matt Carthy questions PwC official on his company’s two-faced role as tax advisors

    Watch how GUE/NGL MEP Matt Carthy confronts PwC’s global tax policy leader Prof Stef Van Weeghel on his company’s role in not only facilitating massive tax evasion, but also in designing the entire system even on government level....

    24 January, 2017No comment
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  • De Masi questions Moscovici on limited scope of public country-by-country reporting

    Fabio De Masi questions Commissioner for Taxation Pierre Moscovici about the scope of the Commission’s proposal on public country-by-country reporting at the hearing with the PANA Committee of Inquiry on 7 December 2016....

    07 December, 2016No comment
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  • Panel Discussion: Doubling Down on Tax Competition and Secrecy

    Re-watch the two panel discussions that took place in Brussels on Wednesday last week (16 November). The panels feature star economist Joseph Stiglitz, PANA Vice Chairs Fabio de Masi (GUE/NGL) and Eva Joly (GREENS) and experts from the Independent Commission for the Reform of International......

    24 November, 2016No comment
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  • PanamaPapers – The Shady World of Offshore Companies

    A first class documentary on the Panama Papers by ARD journalists. A must watch! “For decades, presidents, drug smugglers and criminals have used a Panamanian law firm to hide their accounts and valuables. This is revealed in documents reviewed by media partners around the world,......

    23 November, 2016No comment
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  • Panama Papers Inquiry Committee Hearing with Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Upon GUE/NGL’s invitation, Nobel laureate for Economics, Joseph Stiglitz, and head of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT), José Antonio Campo, today addressed the European Parliament’s Committee of Inquiry into Money Laundering, Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion (PANA) on tax......

    17 November, 2016No comment
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  • De Masi to Stiglitz: “Should Delaware be on a blacklist?”

    GUE/NGL MEP Fabio De Masi questions nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz on his proposals to curb the impact of secrecy jurisdictions on money laundering, tax avoidance and tax evasion at the 16 November 2016 PANA committee hearing with Stiglitz and Mark Pieth....

    16 November, 2016No comment
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  • Whistleblower protection: full conference video

    This is the full video of the 15 November 2016 GUE/NGL conference on whistleblower protection in the European Parliament....

    15 November, 2016No comment
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  • Protecting whistleblowers: Conference highlights

    This video shows the main highlights of the 15 November 2016 GUE/NGL conference on whistleblower protection in the European Parliament....

    15 November, 2016No comment
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  • Fabio De Masi questions Europol and Eurojust

    At the 14 November 2016 European Parliament Panama Papers Committee of Inquiry hearing, Fabio De Masi (GUE/NGL / DIE LINKE.) questions the representatives of Europol and Eurojust....

    14 November, 2016No comment
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  • Marina Albiol questions Commissioner Jourova on money laundering loopholes

    GUE/NGL MEP Marina Albiol (Izquierda Unida) questions European Commissioner Vera Jourova about loopholes in the EU’s framework against money laundering....

    08 November, 2016No comment
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  • De Masi: “With its CCCTB proposal the Commission does not create tax justice”

    In his plenary speech from Tuesday, 25 October, German MEP and Vice-President of the PANA Committee Fabio De Masi criticises the Commission’s CCCTB proposal for not establishing tax justice and for intensifying detrimental tax competition....

    28 October, 2016No comment
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  • Carthy: “Tax avoidance is one of the great global injustices of our time.”

    In his plenary speech from Tuesday (25.10.) GUE/NGL MEP Matt Carthy criticises the Commission’s CCCTB proposal for falling short of its promises. The proposal will neither end international transfer pricing nor profit shifting, which are both central problems of the current tax system, according to......

    28 October, 2016No comment
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  • Frederik Obermaier (ICIJ/Süddeutsche Zeitung) video message on PANA

    Frederik Obermaier from Süddeutsche Zeitung is one of the main journalists investigating the Panama Papers. Here he provides his point of view of what the PANA Committee should focus on in its work. His recorded message complements the 27 September PANA hearing with ICIJ journalists.......

    18 October, 2016No comment
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  • De Masi: “Can you tell me why a company should not be able to name its real owner?”

    Fabio De Masi underlines that a report from the US Senate shows how banks acknowledge that around 90% of their customers’  shell companies are used for suspicious purposes....

    17 October, 2016No comment
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  • Fabio De Masi: “Should US be included on blacklist?”.

    Fabio De Masi asks Michael Lennard from the United Nations: As we know for many developing countries, transfer pricing is a tough regime which they cannot successfully administer. Now that the EU is discussing country by country reporting and it wants to link it to......

    17 October, 2016No comment
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  • Rudolf Elmer: Multinationals and rich individuals are cheating civil society

    Rudolf Elmer, the Swiss whistleblower from Julius Bär (Cayman Islands), says the European Parliament must take immediate action on the Panama Papers, which have revealed a corruption of democracy. In his contribution to the GUE/NGL Panama Papers blog, he argues that multinationals and rich individuals......

    11 October, 2016No comment
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  • Deltour: We need EU-level protection for whistleblowers

    LuxLeaks whistleblower Antoine Deltour welcomes the creation of the Committee of Inquiry on the Panama Papers. In this video contribution for the GUE/NGL Panama Papers blog, he urges the European Parliament to turn indignation about tax evasion into action, and calls for continued pressure on......

    11 October, 2016No comment
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  • Fabio De Masi on loopholes in the legislation on money laundering

    Fabio De Masi (DIE LINKE.) points out shortcomings of the EU law on money laundering, which still allows for anonymous letter box companies after the Commission’s amendments. He further argues to put the USA on the EU’s list for tax havens, due to it being......

    27 September, 2016No comment
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  • Carthy: “Why did national tax authorities not investigate further behind the Panama Papers?”

    Matt Carthy (Sinn Fein) makes clear that tax authorities have for too long dragged their feet on investigating offshore centres and money flows to these centres adequately. Here you can find also the speeches from Stelios Kouloglou and Fabio de Masi...

    27 September, 2016No comment
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  • Kouloglou: “We need better protection for whistleblowers”

    Stelios Kouloglou (SYRIZA) stresses the importance of transparency and a strong framework to protect whistleblowers and journalists in the EU. The recent adoption of the Trade Secrets Directive by the large groups in the European Parliament even weakened this protection by giving companies more rights......

    27 September, 2016No comment
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  • De Masi: “European Commission is for many people increasingly synonymous with European Corruption”

    Fabio De Masi (DIE LINKE.) criticises President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, former President José Manuel Barroso and former Commisioner Neelie Kroes for their linkages to organised money. De Masi demands tougher laws and penalties to shut the revolving doors between politics and business......

    13 September, 2016No comment
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