Archive for April, 2019
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa report on Fiscal Policy for Financing Sustainable Development is a serious piece of work. But it contains the latest in a long series of silly numbers which inflate perceptions of the scale of revenue at stake from multinational corporate tax avoidance. It says tackling base erosion and profit shifting by […]
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[Revised version – thanks to Lucia Cizmaziova for pointing that I had mistyped the ICIJ data for the UK and Denmark – my spreadsheet is here] Three years ago the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) revealed that 11.5 million documents had been leaked from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. Recently they toted up the […]
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