The UK must stop turning ‘a blind eye’ to its shameful role in tax avoidance, Christian Aid has warned, after a trio of UK Overseas Territories topped a new index ranking countries by their complicity in global corporate tax havenry.
Tax Justice Network is calling for ambitious reform that makes sure tax contributions are paid in the countries where real economic activity takes place.
The Tax Justice Network has welcomed the European Commission’s new measures to combat tax abuses in the digital economy – in particular, the intention to ensure taxes are paid in the places where business is done, and where profits are really made.
Members of the Methodist Tax Justice Network and the Tax Justice Network gathered outside the Embankment headquarters of PricewaterhouseCoopers on Wednesday 5 April 2017 to demonstrate in support of whistleblowers and against the actions of PwC, who have facilitated global tax avoidance, tried to prevent the release of information in the public interest and lobbied against necessary changes to international tax laws.
Government proposals to make company bosses responsible for fraud and tax evasion by their staff are welcome and should cover crimes committed in other countries as well as in the UK, Christian Aid said yesterday.