Tag: tax haven

• Thursday, May 30th 2019 - 09:21 UTC

  Jersey and Guernsey, among the “worst tax havens”, Tax Justice Network says

  

  A new list of corporate tax havens has named Jersey as the seventh most “aggressive” in the world. The Tax Justice Network created the ranking by assigning a “haven score” based on 20 different criteria. Both Jersey and Guernsey scored 98 out of a possible 100, putting them “up there with the worst.”

• Tuesday, May 8th 2018 - 08:08 UTC

  Overseas accounts of 35.000 Argentines caught in the taxman's web

  

  Argentina's Internal Revenue Service, AFIP, announced it had received information on 35.000 overseas bank accounts held by Argentines, which should make it easier to control payment deadlines of the respective sworn statements on taxes, profits and assets.

• Wednesday, May 2nd 2018 - 08:25 UTC

  UK agrees on new measures to increase transparency in offshore havens

  

  The British government has agreed to calls for new measures aimed at increasing transparency in offshore tax havens. Facing a possible Commons defeat, ministers said they would not oppose an amendment to force British overseas territories to publish details of the true owners of companies based there.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2016 - 08:49 UTC

  Gibraltar has 135 tax information exchange accords with 80 countries

  

  The British Ambassador to Madrid has defended Gibraltar against attempts by the Spanish Foreign Minister to portray Gibraltar as a tax haven. In a letter published in El País Simon Manley says Jose Manuel García-Margallo is mistaken in his view, pointing out that Gibraltar has taken important steps to ensure that its tax system is open and fair.

• Wednesday, April 13th 2016 - 05:15 UTC

  Companies with World Bank credits in Africa are linked to tax havens, claims Oxfam

  

  A report by the civil society network Oxfam has found, about 84% of the dollars invested in sub-Saharan Africa in 2015 by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, went to companies with presence in at least one tax haven.

• Friday, September 20th 2013 - 19:38 UTC

  Looking back on time: when Garcia Margallo championed for Melilla and Ceuta as tax havens

  

  Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel García-Margallo has long been a vocal critic of Gibraltar’s competitive tax framework, denouncing the Rock as “a tax haven” despite its recognised compliance with international standards set by the EU and the OECD, among others.

• Thursday, May 2nd 2013 - 07:56 UTC

  British tax havens will have to open their banking systems to UK and EU scrutiny

  

  Tax havens such as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands will work more closely with Britain and other European countries to fight tax evasion, British finance minister George Osborne said.

• Friday, November 25th 2011 - 01:05 UTC

  Argentina officially declares “Uruguay is no tax haven” and disagrees with Sarkozy

  

  The Argentine ambassador in Uruguay, Dante Dovena said this week that French president Nicholas Sarkozy statement at the G20 summit, in reference to Uruguay (as a tax haven) is not shared by his government.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2011 - 08:41 UTC

  Mujica says Argentina was not involved in the “tax haven” claim incident

  

  Uruguay’s President, José Mujica said on Monday that Argentina had nothing to do with the comment made by France’s leader Nicolas Sarkozy indicating that Uruguay was a “tax haven.”