Network. FTSE 100 tax haven tracker. Mathilde Dupré : paradis fiscaux, multinationales et captation de richesses. Du détournement fiscal et de la criminalité économique et financière organisés Chaque année, l’évasion fiscale des multinationales fait perdre aux pays en développement 125 milliards d’euros de recettes fiscales, soit 5 fois le montant nécessaire estimé par la FAO pour éradiquer la faim (…) l’évasion fiscale permet aux multinationales de réduire leur taux d’imposition (…) Finalement les populations pauvres paient trois fois dans cette situation, à la fois parce que ce sont celles qui ont le moins de moyens pour échapper à l’impôt, ensuite parce qu’elles n’ont pas accès aux services sociaux qui ne peuvent être financés en raison de l’absence de recettes fiscales ; enfin, quand l’état est en crise et s’endette, ce sont elles aussi qui vont participer au remboursement de la dette des états en question. » Comprendre les paradis fiscaux Que recouvre la réalité des paradis fiscaux ?
Quelle définition en donner ? Comment fonctionnent-ils ? Les Paradis fiscaux en 7 vers illustres. Les bibliophiles avertis et les dissidents de l’ordre néo-libéral disposent désormais d’un nouvel ouvrage de référence à placer sur leurs rayons entre les écrits de Naomi Klein et de Paul Jorion.
Il s’agit du dernier livre de Nicholas Shaxson, Treasure Islands (« Les îles au trésor »), paru en début d’année en Angleterre et qui, comme l’indique aimablement son sous-titre, permet de tout comprendre ou presque sur « les paradis fiscaux et les hommes qui volent le monde ». Paradis fiscal. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.
Un paradis fiscal est un pays ou territoire à fiscalité réduite ou nulle, c'est-à-dire où le taux d'imposition est jugé très bas en comparaison avec les niveaux d'imposition existant dans les pays de l'OCDE. Cette notion nécessite une « indulgence du législateur »[1] du pays concerné et s'oppose à celle d' « harmonisation fiscale ». 24-OP-pdf.pdf (Objet application/pdf) Patrimoine : Les trois listes des paradis fiscaux détérminés par le G20. EXCLUSIF - Voici la liste publiée par l'OCDE, à la demande du G20, «des paradis fiscaux qui ne sont pas en conformité avec les règles mondiales d'échange d'informations fiscales».
Stop aux paradis fiscaux. Aidons l'argent à revenir des paradis fiscaux. Action Mondiale Stop Paradis Fiscaux. Mythbusters: “There’s nothing we can do about tax havens” May 16, 2013 // By: Stephen Reid Tax havens play a key role in facilitating tax avoidance, yet so far, few serious measures have been taken to prevent their operation.
Fuelling this inertia are not one, but several myths: a book of fairy tales and fantastical claims telling us there’s nothing we can do to tackle the glorified accounting functions that are tax havens. Let’s take a moment to clear these up. Tax haven responses underline need for government action. Blog Last week, ActionAid identified 8492 tax haven-registered companies owned by the 100 biggest businesses on the London Stock Exchange, a number far in excess of that previously disclosed.
So how have companies responded? We found advertising giant WPP had the most operations in tax havens and its spokesperson admitted candidly: Our $1 trillion chance. Posted: 6 June 2013 In days, governments will discuss whether to plug a gigantic $1 trillion per year corporate tax loophole - enough money to end poverty, put every child in school, and double green investment!
Most governments want powerful multinationals to pay these taxes, but the US and Canada are on the fence. To get a deal, we need them to feel the pressure. $1 trillion is more than every country combined spends on their military. Wealthy hiding $21 trillion in tax havens, report says - World. AABA. Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the men who stole the world. Le dessous des cartes - Les paradis fiscaux - 29/01/2011. Offshore Leaks «Une masse aussi importante de documents, c’est une extraordinaire opportunité» - PARADIS FISCAUX / ENTRETIEN. Il y avait eu WikiLeaks, les révélations sur les télégrammes diplomatiques américains ; VatiLeaks, ces fuites sur les secrets ponticaux du Vatican, et bien voici maintenant, Offshore Leaks !
Tax haven. There is no generally accepted definition of what a tax haven is, but activities that are commonly associated with such places range far beyond tax.
Some definitions do focus purely on tax: for example, a widely cited academic paper describes a tax haven as a jurisdiction where particular taxes, such as an inheritance tax or income tax, are levied at a low rate or not at all.[1] Other definitions refer to a state, country, or territory which maintains a system of financial secrecy, which enables foreign individuals to hide assets or income to avoid or reduce taxes in the home jurisdiction. Some refer to "secrecy jurisdictions" as an alternative to "tax havens," to emphasise the secrecy element, and a Financial Secrecy Index ranks jurisdictions according to their size and secrecy. [2] Earnings from income generated from real estate (i.e. by renting property owned in an offshore jurisdiction) can also be eliminated in this way. Definitions[edit] Globalisation isn't just about profits. It's about taxes too. 101 Top Tax Policy Blogs :
What’s better for the economy?
What’s better for the general welfare? What’s more important, financial security for all or individual freedom? How do the government’s tax policies affect us as individual taxpayers and as business owners? These questions are all addressed in this list of the top 101 tax policy blogs. For those already interested in tax policy, this list may introduce you to some new blogs you may not have heard of before. Tackle Tax Havens. Liste des 44 famillles françaises les plus riches exilées en Suisse. Misha Glenny, the Greek oligarchs and the offshore laundry. Something I just wrote for the Tax Justice Network: Misha Glenny has a nice piece in the FT today: As the new Greek government struggles to convince Europe of its resolve to cut the country’s bloated public sector, it also has to decide whether to face down the real domestic threat to Greece’s stability: the network of oligarch families who control large parts of the Greek business, the financial sector, the media and, indeed, politicians.
The oligarchs have responded predictably: by accelerating their exports of cash. In the last year, the London property market alone has reported a surge of Greek money. And then there’s this, of course, not strictly a core tax justice issue, but these things are all intertwined: Tax Research UK. Offshore tax havens - Interactive - CBC.ca. Ces entreprises du CAC 40 présentes... dans les paradis fiscaux ! Leaks reveal secrets of the rich who hide cash offshore. Millions of internal records have leaked from Britain's offshore financial industry, exposing for the first time the identities of thousands of holders of anonymous wealth from around the world, from presidents to plutocrats, the daughter of a notorious dictator and a British millionaire accused of concealing assets from his ex-wife. The leak of 2m emails and other documents, mainly from the offshore haven of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), has the potential to cause a seismic shock worldwide to the booming offshore trade, with a former chief economist at McKinsey estimating that wealthy individuals may have as much as $32tn (£21tn) stashed in overseas havens.
In France, Jean-Jacques Augier, President François Hollande's campaign co-treasurer and close friend, has been forced to publicly identify his Chinese business partner. It emerges as Hollande is mired in financial scandal because his former budget minister concealed a Swiss bank account for 20 years and repeatedly lied about it. Lifts Veil on Offshore World. WASHINGTON, DC – The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), a project of the Center for Public Integrity, released today its first of many reports from a 15-month investigation that cracks open the historically impenetrable world of offshore tax havens.
Drawing from a leaked trove of 2.5 million digital files, ICIJ led what may be the largest cross border journalism collaboration in history. Listen to the press conference given by ICIJ director Gerard Ryle, deputy director Marina Walker Guevara, and senior editor Michael Hudson, about the investigation. ICIJ’s investigation opens the secrets of more than 120,000 offshore companies and trusts and nearly 130,000 individuals and agents, exposing hidden dealings of politicians, con artists, and the mega-rich in more than 170 countries. Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze, ICIJ’s largest investigative reporting project in its 15- year history, is available at www.icij.org/offshore. Secret Files Expose Offshore’s Global Impact. Dozens of journalists sifted through millions of leaked records and thousands of names to produce ICIJ’s investigation into offshore secrecy A cache of 2.5 million files has cracked open the secrets of more than 120,000 offshore companies and trusts, exposing hidden dealings of politicians, con men and the mega-rich the world over.
The secret records obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists lay bare the names behind covert companies and private trusts in the British Virgin Islands, the Cook Islands and other offshore hideaways. They include American doctors and dentists and middle-class Greek villagers as well as families and associates of long-time despots, Wall Street swindlers, Eastern European and Indonesian billionaires, Russian corporate executives, international arms dealers and a sham-director-fronted company that the European Union has labeled as a cog in Iran’s nuclear-development program. “I’ve never seen anything like this. Super Rich Are Actually Much Richer Than We Thought Thanks to Hidden Tax Havens. The super rich are richer than ever, but we – and likely, they – don’t even know how rich that is. Much of that money is stashed away in quasi-legal offshore tax havens which make it nearly impossible to properly account for.
Tax havens are nothing new, of course. The Distribution of US Wealth, Capital Income and Returns since 1913 - SaezZucman2014Slides.pdf. OP-QJEC130012 1321..1364 - Zucman2013QJE.pdf.