This year’s College of Europe Transparency Group just published its policy papers on EU whistleblowing, tax transparency, party financing and the EU’s own auditing watchdog:
The negotiations on EU legislation for public country-by-country reporting (CBCR), have been stalled by the EU Council. However, the recent result of the German Social Democrats’ (SPD) vote in favour of forming a grand coalition with Angela...
A year after the Panama Papers revelations, the Paradise Papers leak once again brought light to the murky world of financial and tax secrecy made of opaque corporate structures as well as secret tax arrangements and schemes aimed at lowering large...
Natural resources can lift millions in the developing world out of poverty. But they can also motivate and enable corruption, particularly given the large and sometimes vast revenues involved, the remoteness of many operations, the secrecy...
Today, the adoption of the first EU blacklist of tax havens is a welcome step and a useful tool to incentivise tax havens to reform towards more transparency in their tax and financial systems, according to Transparency International EU. However,...
This piece originally appeared in Knack.be in Dutch. Amid the headlines and heated debates that will come out after the latest leak from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the Paradise Papers, there will be calls for action,...
Beside the big names of celebrities and politicians, such as Lewis Hamilton and Wilbur Ross, hiding their wealth offshore, which were included in the latest leak by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) – the Paradise...
There has been much in the coverage Paradise Papers about tax avoidance by celebrities and wealthy individuals, but less attention paid to how these secret companies can provide cover for corruption and other crimes. Here is a compilation of some of...
Today, Transparency International EU calls on European Union Member States to step up efforts in tackling offshore secrecy jurisdictions to stop money laundering, tax evasion and tax avoidance after the Paradise Papers revelations by the...