Tech News

What is the global minimum tax deal and what will it mean?

In a momentous decision, 130 countries have agreed to set a global minimum on corporate tax at 15 per cent. But what does that mean in practice?

10/10/2021

World News

More than 130 countries agree on 15% global minimum corporate tax

From 2023, multinational corporations will have to pay taxes in countries where they operate - not just where they have their headquarters.

09/10/2021

Europe News

EU removes Seychelles from tax blacklist despite Pandora Papers

The latest update of the EU list of "non-cooperative jurisdictions" has exempted Seychelles, Anguilla and Dominica from being blacklisted.

05/10/2021

World News

Euroviews. The real reasons Ireland is against a 15% corporate tax rate | View

The arguments of the Irish government to oppose a global effort to reform the tax system are not convincing and might push Ireland farther away from the EU, argues Trinity's Dr Jim Charles Stewart.

16/07/2021

Tech News

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?

05/06/2021

Tech News

Facebook welcomes global minimum tax rate announced by G7 today

Facebook says it could pay more tax after G7 deal

05/06/2021

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.

30/04/2021

World News

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

02/04/2021

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.

17/02/2021

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.

08/02/2021

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

13/05/2019

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.

19/04/2019

Business

EU adds UAE, Bermuda to expanded tax haven blacklist

EU adds UAE, Bermuda to expanded tax haven blacklist

13/03/2019

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

12/03/2019

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.

21/04/2018

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.

23/01/2018

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.

23/01/2018

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.

05/12/2017

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.

05/12/2017

Europe News

Oxfam blasts EU 'tax havens'

28/11/2017