Eurodad (European Network on Debt and Development)

2014
Eurodad (European Network on Debt and Development)

Abstract: In the past year, scandal after scandal has exposed companies using loopholes in the tax system to avoid taxation. Now more than ever, it is becoming clear that citizens around the world are paying a high price for the crisis in the global tax system, and the discussion about multinational corporations and their tax tricks remains at the top of the agenda. There is also a growing awareness that the world’s poorest countries are even harder impacted than the richest countries. In effect, the poorest countries are paying the price for a global tax system they did not create. A large number of the scandals that emerged over the past year have strong links to the EU and its Member States. Many eyes have therefore turned to the EU leaders, who claim that the problem is being solved and the public need not worry. But what is really going on? What is the role of the EU in the unjust global tax system, and are EU leaders really solving the problem?

Keyword(s): Taxation ; Evasion ; Transnational Corporations ; Revenues ; Regulation ; global tax standards ; tax policies ; Transparency ; Treaties ; European Union ; Domestic Resource Mobilization ; Tax Justice