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
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
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
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
Watch GUE/NGL’s video on the anniversary of the Panama Papers....
03 April, 2017No comment
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This is the full video of the 15 November 2016 GUE/NGL conference on whistleblower protection in the European Parliament....
15 November, 2016No comment
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
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
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 commentIn 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 commentFabio 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
The Bahamas Leaks highlight the urgent need for transparency on shell companies, which are at the rotten core of the offshore scam. All countries must ensure that full registers of beneficial ownership of offshore companies, foundations and trusts are in place and open to public......
13 September, 2016No comment