The Paradise Papers was ICIJ’s 2017 global investigation into the offshore activities of some of the world’s most powerful people and companies.
While the OECD has trumpeted the agreement as a “major victory,” civil society groups have slammed the deal for pandering to tax havens at the expense of poorer nations.
The footwear giant argued that it’s being singled out after the Paradise Papers investigation revealed its Dutch tax arrangements.
After a decade of exposés and scandals, leaders from more than 100 countries have agreed to a minimum tax rate for multinational companies to pay wherever they operate.
For two decades, the multinational mass media conglomerate took advantage of tax havens in a global “game of cat and mouse,” Dutch researchers find.
The deal has been praised as a historic step in ending the ‘race-to-the-bottom’ between tax havens, but will need international backing to move forward.
The new rules will force multinational companies to report tax information for each EU country where they operate, but leave out most of their operations in the rest of the world.
The European Commission’s latest attempt to tackle corporate tax dodging and profit shifting would require unanimous approval by EU member states, some of which serve as tax havens.
The Biden administration says that investing $80 billion to beef up IRS enforcement will pay for itself by recouping a projected $700 billion over the next decade.
On the fifth anniversary of the Panama Papers’ launch, experts say there’s been progress in the fight against dirty money — but much more is needed.
The new analysis is based on corporation data first released in 2020 as part of an OECD-coordinated effort to tackle tax avoidance worldwide.
Dan Gertler was first frozen out of the U.S. financial system in 2017 after Paradise Papers exposed how he helped secure lucrative mining rights for commodities giant Glencore.
An investment scheme involving tycoon Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais exposed in ICIJ’s Paradise Papers investigation bore “obvious” risks of possible corruption, a Jersey court finds.
ICIJ and the Global Alliance for Tax Justice among nominees that also include Committee to Protect Journalists, Russian dissident Alexei Navalny and climate activist Greta Thunberg.
The territory, whose shell companies have repeatedly played a role in notorious global crime schemes, also may be blacklisted by the EU after the Brexit deal.
After three decades as an investigative journalist, ICIJ member and longtime collaborator Harvey Cashore says a passion for justice is key for any reporter who wants to succeed.
The long-sought reforms, effectively ending anonymous shell companies, were included in an annual defense spending bill approved by both houses of Congress with veto-proof margins.
Paradise Papers revealed the suspected radical, a Viennese entrepreneur, was listed as the director of shell companies in the British Virgin Islands, Malta, and the Bahamas.
Congress has released the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes reforms that would effectively end fully anonymous shell companies.
The investigation may provide a rare look into how illicit money moves across borders through flawed banking systems.
The Nigerian journalist and publisher was awarded the International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
The Tax Justice Network provides country-by-country estimates of losses due to tax abuse and tax evasion by wealthy corporations and individuals.
APRIL may have misclassified exports to reduce its tax bill in Indonesia, a new report by the Tax Justice Forum says.
The territory’s secrecy rules have long attracted criminals and secretive companies created there have featured in several ICIJ investigations on offshore finance.
The British dependency is still facilitating the super-rich owners of private jets to fly below European taxes almost three years after Paradise Papers first revealed the practice.
Singapore’s financial watchdog has fined trust company Asiaciti for failing to guard against money laundering and terrorism financing
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