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The global minimum tax rate and what it means for multinationals

The G7 has come to a historic agreement on global corporate tax rates. But what does it mean for governments and multinationals?

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Facebook welcomes global minimum tax rate announced by G7 today

Facebook says it could pay more tax after G7 deal

Switzerland

Joe Biden said Switzerland is a tax haven. The Swiss do not agree.

Switzerland long had a reputation as a haven for tax dodgers to squirrel away their money to avoid fiscal authorities abroad. But Swiss authorities have been at pains to try to change the country’s image.

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Euroviews. Panama Papers: 5 years on, EU still failing to tackle tax abuse | View

Much more is needed if the EU is to take effective action to address the problems highlighted 5 years ago by the Panama Papers, says Action Aid's Anders Dahlbeck

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My Europe Series

Why doesn't the EU consider Luxembourg a tax haven?

The tiny Grand Duchy has been accused of being a tax haven after the OpenLux investigation revealed the country hosts 55,000 offshore companies.

Luxembourg

Luxembourg rejects new tax haven claims

A year-long investigation by sixteen media outlets combed through four billion publicly-available documents found that a third of companies in Luxembourg are holdings that allow for favourable tax treatment.

Portugal

Criticism over Portuguese taxation paradise for foreign pensioners

Portugal is often described as a pensioners tax paradise and maybe not unfairly as it offers tax breaks for those who move there from other countries

France

Euroviews. The restitution of ill-gotten gains should be a French - and European - priority ǀ View

A new draft law could see the restitution of resources and assets to dispossessed people in Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere. But here is much more to be done in France - and more widely in Europe - to tackle the problem.

Business

EU adds UAE, Bermuda to expanded tax haven blacklist

EU adds UAE, Bermuda to expanded tax haven blacklist

World News

EU adopts broadened blacklist of tax havens, tripling countries on list

The EU has broadened its blacklist of tax havens in a revamp that triples the number of listed jurisdictions in a bid to limit tax evasion and avoidance

Sport

Cristiano Ronaldo accused of using offshore firms in Luxembourg and Jersey

Documents provided to the German magazine Der Spiegel suggest that the Real Madrid player operated a holding in Luxembourg and a trust in Jersey in 2015.

Europe News

Brief: EU updates tax haven blacklist and Belgium debates migrant law

This is the Brief from Brussels, a roundup of the top stories from the EU's de facto political capital.

Europe News

EU removes 8 countries from controversital tax blacklist

European Union finance ministers have removed eight countries, including much-criticized Panama, from a tax haven blacklist. Ministers say the jurisdictions have committed to making reforms that meet EU standards of tax transparency.

Europe News

The Brief: Counterterrorism and tax havens

This is the Brief from Brussels, a roundup of the top stories from the EU's de facto political capital.

Europe News

EU issues tax haven blacklist

Sun sea and tax avoidance might sound like paradise but the European Union doesn't agree. It's issued a blacklist of 17 countries it says are tax havens.

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Oxfam blasts EU 'tax havens'

Greece

'No secrecy': Malta's PM discusses business and journalism

‘There is no secrecy’ Malta's prime minister tells euronews as he talks about business and theories surrounding the recent murder of a local journalist.

United Kingdom

Prince Charles' estate 'may have profited' from his campaigning

The British royal is shown to have connections with offshore investments and is criticised for a "conflict of interest".

USA

Apple caught in the spot light of Paradise Papers revelations

Apple denies avoiding tax after the latest documents in the Paradise Papers are released

World News

US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross denies wrongdoing after Paradise Papers leak.

The New York Times has accused US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross of having ties to Putin-linked firm