Tax breaks on big companies’ profits cost developing countries over US$138 billion in tax every year globally – money which could be used to improve public services such as health and education in poor countries, according to new ActionAid research.
Across the world, wherever you live, governments are struggling to pay for public services.When faced with complaints about crowded classrooms, shortages of nurses and crumbling roads, governments...
One of the main reasons developing countries are unlikely to achieve many of the Millennium Development Goals, and escape the persistent poverty that plagues even those poorer countries that achieve...
That’s all folks! This year’s G8 summit has just finished in Northern Ireland.As often happens, major world events eclipsed the planned agenda to some extent – in this case Syria. Here’s hoping that...
Over the next two days leaders of the G8, the world’s eight richest countries, will meet to discuss reforming the global tax system. Over these 48 hours, developing countries will lose £1.4 billion...
Last week, the High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (HLP) released its final report. Co-chaired by the Heads of Government of Indonesia, Liberia, and the United Kingdom, the report is...
To be able to provide essential services such as hospitals and schools required by their people, developing country governments need to have the power to collect the taxes they are due from big...
The representatives of big business, including the big accountancy firms, have been scurrying in and out of politicians’ offices trying to persuade them that getting companies to pay their fair share...
The Netherlands is world famous for bicycles, windmills and tulips, but there is more to this tiny country – its role in the world of tax avoidance is huge!Multi-nationals are cunningly making use of...
