Tax Avoidance and Dodging

David Cameron has taken a swipe at Starbucks as he promised that making business pay its fair share would be one of three key aims of Britain's G8 presidency. "Companies need to wake up and smell the coffee, because the customers who buy from them have had enough," the prime minister told business leaders (video) at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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COLM KEENA OPINION: State's role in world of multinational taxation works against aid aims Ireland has long been proud of its contribution to development aid to Africa and other poorer parts of the world, but the growing amount of information available concerning the role Dublin plays in the tax structures of multinationals challenges that view.

DEN HAAG - De Nederlandse overheid stemt haar informatie en beleid nauwkeurig en voornamelijk af met Shell als het gaat om de omstreden oliewinning van het Brits-Nederlandse bedrijf in Nigeria. Dat blijkt uit correspondentie en stukken die NU.nl heeft opgevraagd bij de ministeries van Buitenlandse Zaken en Economische Zaken.

The existence of an extraordinary global network of sham company directors, most of them British, can be revealed. The UK government claims such abuses were stamped out long ago, but a worldwide joint investigation by the Guardian, the BBC's Panorama and the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has uncovered a booming offshore industry that leaves the way open for both tax avoidance and the concealment of assets.

The taxes paid by large US companies with operations in the UK is in the news, following the news that Starbucks has paid no tax in the last two years. We wondered how much tax some of the most famous US names in the UK have paid on their British operations over the last four years.

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Starbucks has been in the spotlight over the tax it pays (Picture: Getty) We give them millions of pounds every year. It's about time some of them gave us something back. Starbucks, the most recent multinational to come under fire for tax avoidance, has agreed to pay £20mn over the next two years, after coffee sales slumped under the weight of public protest.

" Koperindustrie in Zambia NOS Toegevoegd: dinsdag 27 nov 2012, 14:36 "Ontwikkelingshulp geven is eigenlijk nutteloos", zegt de Zambiaanse belastingexpert Savior Mwambwa. Westerse landen zouden volgens hem beter de belastingontwijking door multinationals in Afrika kunnen aanpakken. Dan hoeven ze ook geen ontwikkelingshulp meer te betalen.

Léonce Ndikumana, a member of the Task Force Economist Advisory Council, appeared on The Real News to discuss his new research on capital flight from Africa. His work found that $1.6 trillion in capital flight and odious debt have left Africa from 1970-2010.

De laatste tijd is er veel ophef over de 'Nederland route' die multinationals in staat stelt om via Nederland hun belastingafdracht in andere landen te verlagen. Dit is niet de eerste keer en de reactie van het kabinet is voorspelbaar: "Loop gerust door, hier is niets aan de hand".

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Van de lakse belastingmoraal van de Amerikaanse presidentskandidaat Mitt Romney tot de 'Double Irish-Double Dutch sandwich' van bedrijven als Google en Amazon. Het lijkt alsof belastingontwijking meer dan ooit in het nieuws is. Maar waarom is Nederland zo populair voor belastingontwijkers? En wat is er eigenlijk mis met belastingontwijking?

Executives from some of the world's most-recognised firms have been grilled by MPs on the issue of tax avoidance. The head of Google UK and top managers from Starbucks and Amazon appeared before the Public Accounts Committee. Starbucks admitted the Dutch government had granted a special tax deal on its European headquarters, which receives royalty payments from its UK business.

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