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UK: Tangerine Confectionery launches Butterkist Pop 'n' Pour
By Hannah Abdulla | 9 May 2014
Tangerine Confectionery launches Pop 'n' Pour under the Butterkist brand
UK confectioner Tangerine Confectionery has launched a new Pop 'n' Pour product under its Butterkist brand.
The Pop 'n' Pour cartons comprise two bags of plain popcorn and two sachets of flavoured sauce to be poured over the popcorn once cooked.
Helena Blincow, Butterkist brand manager, said: "We're very excited to announce the launch of this truly innovative product to the Butterkist portfolio. Pop 'n' Pour has been developed based on the rising trend of consumer engagement and involvement with products."
The new range is available in two flavours: Chocolate and Chocolate Orange and both flavours are under 70 calories. RSP is GBP2.29 (US$3.86).
Tangerine Confectionery, the maker of the UK's number one popcorn brand, Butterkist, has unveiled a brand new innovation in the popcorn industry, with the launch of a range of Pop 'n' Pour products, which invite consumers to enjoy microwave popcorn in a new and exciting way.
The Pop 'n' Pour cartons consist of two bags of plain popcorn and two sachets of deliciously flavoured sauce. Consumers warm a sachet of sauce in warm water, whilst the popcorn is popping in the microwave; once ready they drizzle the sauce over the popcorn, creating their own truly irresistible treat in minutes.
Available from May, the 220g Pop 'n' Pour products launch in two mouth-watering flavours, Chocolate and Chocolate Orange. The products have a MRRSP of £2.29.
Helena Blincow, Butterkist Brand Manager, said: "We're very excited to announce the launch of this truly innovative product to theButterkist portfolio. Pop 'n' Pour has been developed based on the rising trend of consumer engagement and involvement with products. In the last year alone the Butterkist microwave range has seen a sales growth of +32 per cent*.
"We predict the Pop 'n' Pour range to do extremely well, especially as the Chocolate flavour boasts only 64 calories per serving and the Chocolate Orange 67 calories. The new range adds to the variety of popcorn that can be enjoyed from the comfort of consumers' homes."
Butterkist is also adding to its Limited Edition range in May with the launch of a British classic, Strawberries & Cream flavour popcorn. Available only for the summer, this light, refreshing popcorn offers a new and unique way to enjoy a summer staple, and makes for the perfect snack to enjoy Wimbledon with. The 150g Limited Edition Strawberry & Cream flavour popcorn has an MRRSP of £1.
Helena continues: "The new Limited Edition pack continues our brand's momentum for driving new and exciting news onto the shelves for our consumers. The Limited Edition umbrella allows us to add new and unique flavours to the category, whilst ensuring relevancy to key market trends and the timing within the year."
Butterkist is also launching two new variety multipacks, a Classic Variety six pack and a Savoury Variety six pack. Both launch in May, with an MRRSP of £1.69, promoted to a £1.
The Classic Variety six pack comprises of the market leading flavours with two Toffee packs, two Sweet Cinema Style packs and two Salted packs. The Savoury Variety six pack builds on the rising trend for savoury popcorn; with market leading savoury flavours, it contains two Sea Salt & Balsamic Vinegar packs, two Sour Cream & Chive packs and two Thai Sweet Chilli packs. Each of these savoury packs has less than 40 calories a bag, making it a delicious alternative to other snacking products.
These two new variety packs are the ideal purchase, offering something that everyone can enjoy as either a snack between meals or as part of a lunchbox.
Helena concludes: "Butterkist's Variety packs make a great addition to consumers snacking choices and can be included as part of a well balanced lunch with low calorie counts for each of the individual packets. The Classic and Savoury Variety packs cater to all the family with an appetising range of flavours in one accessible pack format."
For more information on Butterkist, please visit www.butterkistproductions.co.uk or visit the Butterkist Facebook and Twitterpages.
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For the final days of 2011, a look at some of the best (creative commons licensed) photos on Flickr.
Today's photo is of a rocket (not sure of what, probably a satellite) going through the sky during a early March night… and visible from the spring training stadium of the Washington Nationals. Talk about local color.
Creative Commons license, photo by tbridge.
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
[OT] Q4 NFL Thread
So as what not to annoy the people in the "no, no, the fact that we exploit our players and refuse to cut them in on the cash except for dirty booster money makes us amateur and pristine!" thread.
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The post One year after Addis Ababa, rich countries blocking UN from working on tax, again appeared first on Financial Transparency Coalition.]]>
Now, at the one year anniversary mark, the same story seems to be unfolding yet again.
This time, the location is Nairobi and the venue is the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, a summit that happens every four years so member nations can discuss how the UN should engage with issues of trade, finance, and development.
Currently, most global rules on tax and transparency are set by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the G20, two groupings of the wealthiest nations on earth. But these processes leave little room for input from developing countries, which are often most adversely affected by illicit financial flows.
And it's vital that developing countries have a seat at the table — the ambitious development goals set by the United Nations last year, the Sustainable Development Goals, directly reference the need to reduce illicit financial flows. So, it's only logical that the United Nations would play a strong role in in setting the rules meant to help achieve this goal.
This is why news reports coming out of the conference, and information from our own ears on the ground, are so disconcerting; it seems rich countries are once again attempting to block any language in the final document that would increase the scope of the United Nations to work on these issues.
Rather than cut UNCTAD out of work on global tax and transparency, we should welcome their expertise and broader viewpoint into the global discussion. UNCTAD has a critical role to play. By working at the convergence of trade, finance and development, they are in a truly unique position.
Just last year, UNCTAD released a report that estimated developing countries lose nearly USD$100 billion in revenue each year when multinational corporations shift their profits into low-tax jurisdictions.
And though the money leaving via illicit financial flows is moving almost unabated from poor countries to rich ones, OECD members don't seem to want to let a group that includes both work on how to bring it back.
So how could UNCTAD contribute to the growing discussion around curbing illicit financial flows?
It's true that the OECD is leading much of the current work on international tax and transparency. But UNCTAD could be vital to assisting developing countries with relevant analysis, while helping them in the implementation of new standards, so that all countries are moving together towards meeting the ambitious goals set out in the SDG framework.
And though the OECD has pushed forward two of the biggest reforms to date, new commitments on these issues erupt each day.
For example, at a recent Anti-Corruption Summit held in London, 13 countries supported the idea of a global commitment to public country by country reporting (CBCR) for multinational corporations. This reporting would make it far easier to detect and deter tax avoidance and profit shifting.
But again, there are no international guidelines set in place to help support countries that want to fulfill this commitment, and UNCTAD could be an important partner in this process.
Over the past several years, illicit financial flows have gone from a niche issue discussed in a few conference rooms to a problem that is being attacked at a global level. But it's important that solutions are also crafted at the same global level, and not only by a select group of nations, many of which seem to be benefitting quite nicely from the status quo.
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Whether it's estimates from Global Financial Integrity that put the amount lost by developing countries at more than a trillion dollars each year, or massive leaks like the Panama Papers that outlined the enablers helping to hide the tracks of the rich and powerful, one thing is clear: illicit financial flows are a persistent problem, and they thrive on secrecy.
For this reason, we should be encouraged by the fact that so many governments and international bodies are beginning to look at the best ways to clamp down on the phenomenon. Perhaps most notable are efforts from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group of 34 wealthy countries, who have spearheaded two of the biggest tax transparency efforts of late.
But a number of questions remain.
As the OECD only makes up 20 percent of the world's countries, that means the other 80 percent have been on the outside looking in, as the rules were being written. This is why it's so important that issues of tax and transparency are also discussed in forums like UNCTAD14; while the aims of the OECD — to cut down on multinational profit shifting and cross-border tax evasion — are laudable, it's vital that space exists where all countries can discuss the issues on equal footing.
And it's fitting that these issues are being discussed at UNCTAD14 in Nairobi this week, as the United Nations' trade and development arm has already been looking into tax, transparency, and financial secrecy for quite some time. Just last year, as part of its World Investment Report, UNCTAD concluded that at least USD$100 billion in revenue was lost each year by developing countries to multinational profit shifting. And just this week, as the conference began, UNCTAD dropped another report, this time examining trade misinvoicing in commodity-dependent developing countries.
From the report:
"Some commodity dependent developing countries are losing as much as 67% of their exports worth billions of dollars to trade misinvoicing, according to a fresh study by UNCTAD, which for the first time analyses this issue for specific commodities and countries.
Trade misinvoicing is thought to be one of the largest drivers of illicit financial flows from developing countries, so that the countries lose precious foreign exchange earnings, tax, and income that might otherwise be spent on development."
Whether it's a multi-billion dollar multinational or a wealthy elite looking to move their fortune undetected, there's one similarity that's painfully clear: a lack of transparency is at the heart of the problem. So, as UNCTAD 14 approaches, we've offered up some recommendations on what still needs to be addressed, and what role UNCTAD could play (you can find our full submission here):
Strengthening international tax cooperation is paramount to tackling tax abuse, corruption, and money laundering. But to do so equitably, we need equal participation of developing countries, on equal footing. To ensure that all countries have a say in how global standards in tax and transparency are set, UNCTAD should complement and inform the work of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Governments should reinforce efforts to strengthen cooperation in the current UN Tax Committee, including by endorsing the long-standing proposal from developing countries to upgrade it to an intergovernmental commission in ECOSOC.
After the Anti-Corruption Summit in May 2016 in London, we saw 13 governments express support for a global commitment to public country by country reporting (CBCR) for multinational corporations. Public CBCR could help detect and deter tax abuse by multinationals that shift profits to low- or no-tax jurisdictions where they have little or no real economic activity. But there's currently no international process to promote such a commitment. This is why we think UNCTAD should be mandated to develop guidelines and build consensus around public CBCR.
May's Anti-Corruption Summit also saw 8 governments commit to establishing public registers of beneficial ownership information, which would make it much harder to hide behind anonymous companies, often the favorite vehicle for anyone wanting to move dirty money undetected. The Panama Papers laid out in great detail the way anonymous companies are central to illicit financial flows. But there are no international guidelines that could help support countries fulfill this commitment, meaning UNCTAD could play a vital role in developing guidelines and growing consensus for public registers of beneficial ownership information.
The OECD's Common Reporting Standard aims to make it easier for countries to share information about where their citizens' money is being held, and whether or not offshore jurisdictions are being used to evade taxes. This is incredibly important for developing countries, as it's estimated that 33% of all assets in the Middle East and Africa are held offshore, and about 25% for Latin America. This is in stark contrast to the estimate of assets held offshore globally, which is just 6%.
But the OECD standard didn't accommodate the unique challenges developing countries have, and it risks leaving many of them behind. Perhaps the biggest impediment is the 'reciprocity rule', which says that a government has to share information to receive it. While in theory, this mutual exchange is logical, a number of developing countries don't yet have the capacity to comply with reciprocity from the start. And the reality is that very few citizens of rich nations are sending their money to banks in low-income countries, yet vast sums are flowing the other way.
To help facilitate their inclusion in the system, UNCTAD could help develop global consensus and guidelines on ensuring a limited period where low capacity developing countries could receive information without having to send their own. This temporary period of non-reciprocity will give governments the time necessary to build capacity to meet the reciprocity requirement, while benefitting from the new information.
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So much so that, at the Third Financing for Development Conference last year, the biggest issue of contention was whether to establish a body with full participation of developing countries to negotiate rules for tax cooperation. Such a body, developing countries expected, would be able to generate rules that could be more responsive to their interests in collecting a fair share of taxes for activities in their jurisdiction, than is currently the case.
A new publication by RightingFinance addresses the implications for tax policy of obligations of cooperation and assistance for the achievement of human rights. This is the fourth in a series of advocacy tools on tax policy and human rights with the aim of assisting education and dissemination of the standards on tax policy and human rights contained in a 2014 report on tax policy and human rights ("the report") by the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights. Each tool contains normative foundations of the obligations and rights in question, their applications to tax policy – including explanations and references to practical examples – and a set of questions for reflection.
The obligations of states to refrain from any conduct that impairs the ability of another state to comply with its own human rights commitments and to create an international enabling environment for the fulfilment of economic, social and cultural rights, include matters relating to taxation.
The Special Rapporteur was careful to clarify that references to obligations of international cooperation do not mean "absolving any state of its obligation to raise the maximum available resources domestically to ensure the progressive realization of economic, social and cultural rights."
But, in the absence of global reforms, there are limits to national-level actions. This has been especially so since the advent of globalization: "Globalization and increased cross-border flows of goods and capital have vastly increased the chances that one State's actions or omissions may affect another State's ability to raise public revenues, and increased the ways and means that companies and individuals can use to evade and avoid taxes. . . . The tax laws and structures of one State can therefore erode the national tax bases of other States and hamper the application of progressive tax rates and the achievement of redistributive goals, ultimately threatening the realization of rights."
It follows, the publication says, that the human rights obligations relevant in such cases will not only be those of the state that loses the revenue, but at least in equal part those of any state whose action or omission enabled the cross-border flows to take place.
A typical area that exemplifies the importance of international cooperation is that of transfer mispricing, a practice that enables companies or groups of companies operating across borders to overstate profits where taxes are low or understate them where taxes are high. According to estimates, trade misinvoicing accounts for the majority of the more than USD 1 trillion of measurable illicit financial flows out of developing and emerging market countries. States beyond that where the revenue has been lost may be responsible for lack of transparent and publicly-available information on who owns companies and failure to implement reporting country-by-country. This latter requirement, which calls for companies to disclose activities, profits, paid taxes, and other critical information they provide, disaggregated by country, rather than on a global basis, is crucial for comparing and finding potential gaps between what companies report in different jurisdictions.
Other issues that may concern countries' obligations of international cooperation and assistance refer to tax competition, tax havens and the tax-related actions by international organizations. On this latter point, the publication quotes the Special Rapporteur: "when a State makes decisions about loans as a member of an international financial institution, careful consideration of human rights obligations would mitigate against imposing conditions regarding fiscal policies that may jeopardize the human rights of the borrower State's population or undermine that State's ability to use maximum available resources to realize economic, social and cultural rights."
Some of the recommended questions for reflection are: Does the state have processes to ensure double taxation agreements are consistent with its human rights obligations, from negotiation to implementation? How about tax stability agreements signed by it or by its companies with other states? What actions has the state taken to avoid its citizens, as well as companies registered or operating in its jurisdiction do not use tax havens to facilitate tax abuse or other illicit activities?
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As we wrote on this blog last week, the UK government has just taken the bold step of publishing the world's first fully open register of beneficial ownership. This is the first dataset of its kind, and the information promises to tell us who really owns UK companies, whilst making it harder for criminals to hide dirty money. As we explained here, we need this information so that businesses know who they are dealing with, civil and environmental rights can be protected and so that law enforcement and civil society are able to detect tax evasion and money laundering.
This is a true open government data initiative and credit should go to the folks at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and Companies House for their commitment to open standards and bravely going where no other government has gone before. There are bulk files and a data feed (API) for those wanting to perform analysis and integrate the information into their own applications, and a web interface for everyday users just wanting to explore the information (see below).
When it comes to the actual data, we had a quick look at what Companies House published, and what we found was promising, but not without wrinkles.
From our analysis of the most recent data (published on the morning of 8th July 2016) there were over 28,076 beneficial owners on record (referred to as "persons of significant control") and over 22,595 UK registered companies had filed information on at least one beneficial owner.
The release does appear to contain genuinely new information. While we didn't have the benefit of being able to use shareholder data to compare it to (Companies House is yet to publish this as open data although it is publicly available), we compared the named beneficial owners of specific companies with the listed beneficial owners. Over 300 beneficial owners appeared not to have already been listed as directors of those companies. This is exciting as it shows some companies are filing genuinely new information not contained within their previous filings.
The fact we could make that comparison between directors and beneficial owners is worth celebrating. It demonstrates why going to the trouble of making this available via a data feed (API) rather than just web interface is important. We were able to automate thousands of queries to Companies House servers about directors and compare the results with the listed beneficial owners automatically. This use of computational techniques like this is at the heart of much of the most exciting investigative journalism today, but these techniques need open data in order to be effective.
Our initial analysis of the first batch of data did reveal some imperfections in the quality of the data. Take for instance the summary of nationalities. As the chart below shows there were multiple versions of "Uk" and "British" pointing to the inadequacy of a free-text field for this kind of entry.
Similar data quality issues were observed in other key fields such as date of birth, where some beneficial owners appeared to be less than a month old (!), and in the in the type of entity field where many people misfiled themselves as "Legal person" rather than "Individual person".
Although it's far too early to tell what the level of compliance will be and how truthfully companies will be reporting their beneficial owners, it's interesting to note that 14% of companies appear not have reported a single beneficial owner.
Reasons varied as the table below shows, but the vast majority of companies that did not file a beneficial owner declared that none existed. This is probably because no one individual met any of the criteria for being a beneficial owner e.g. owning 25% of shares, or exercising significant control over the company. Time will tell if this is a route some companies use to avoid disclosing.
We hope that Companies House will address some of the problems with the data that have surfaced. Many appear to be the result of people not understanding what they were meant to file, but some perhaps are flags for design choices that should be re-visited.
Companies House and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) have a unique opportunity here. There is serious interest in this new data amongst economists, business, campaigners and journalists. The many eyes of this crowd could be harnessed to improve the quality of this data if routes are built through which individuals can easily point to flaws in the information. Companies House have already taken some steps to directly engage developers in this data release, such as creating a forum for discussion and support, but enabling this kind of data quality crowdsourcing would be a real innovation.
It will take a full year before we have a full set of beneficial ownership filings for all UK companies. In the coming months, and as the number of filings grows, we will be exploring this data in order to understand corporate ownership in the UK and for investigative purposes. Stay tuned for information on events and hack days we will be running.
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The call was issued by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which oversees compliance with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Drawing on a joint report by the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), the Tax Justice Network (TJN) and the Global Justice Clinic at NYU School of Law (GJC), the Committee voiced concerns that the UK's financial secrecy legislation and permissive rules on corporate tax are undermining the proper resourcing of human rights, thereby affecting the ability of other States to mobilize resources for the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights.
The Committee echoed the joint report's observation that the UK's financial network is draining resources that would otherwise be available to finance human rights, such as health, education, access to justice and social protection. Therefore, the Committee called on the UK government to conduct a human rights impact assessment of its financial secrecy and corporate tax and reporting policies, to "take strict measures to tackle tax abuse, in particular by corporations and high-net-worth individuals" and to "intensify its efforts, in coordination with its Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, to address global tax abuse".
"The Committee's intervention is extremely timely," said Niko Lusiani, Director of CESR's Human Rights in Economic Policy program. "Tax abuse presents an ever-increasing threat to all human rights, and is driving historic levels of socioeconomic inequality both within and among countries." To comply with the Committee's recommendations, Niko urged, "the UK government should take immediate steps to ensure that its financial and tax laws do not undermine the human rights of its own citizens or the citizens of other countries."
This first review of the UK since 2009 provided the Committee with a unique opportunity to scrutinize the austerity budgets implemented by successive governments in recent years. Alongside the concerns over financial secrecy, the Committee strongly criticized other areas of UK tax and fiscal policy that it considers adverse to human rights, including recent increases to value added tax (VAT) and the new limit on inheritance tax, both of which further exacerbate inequality.
As explained in the CESR-TJN-GJC report, the exploitation of legal loopholes and arbitrage between national tax authorities—facilitated by the UK and other secrecy jurisdictions—results in the siphoning off of vast flows of revenue, especially from the economies of less-developed countries. The foreseeable result of this conduct is the enrichment of already wealthy individuals and corporations at the expense of low and middle-income households. The need for corrective measures by the UK is greater now than ever.
According to Liz Nelson, Director at Tax Justice Network, "The UK's referendum heralds increased dangers for human rights. The vote for Brexit has reinvigorated the offshore industry and London's financial hub, increasing the likelihood of more unregulated flows of dirty money." She explained, "The government has the power and the duty to close existing legal loopholes, by introducing public registries of company and trust beneficial ownership in the UK and Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies."
As the report details, the International Monetary Fund reports that developing countries lose $212 billion each year to just one form of tax abuse – base erosion – through which multinational corporations shift profits across their global affiliates in order to lower their tax bills, while the offshoring of private wealth leads to annual revenue losses of $190-$280 billion worldwide.
"By facilitating tax abuse, the UK is shirking its legal obligations to respect and protect human rights," said Nikki Reisch, Legal Director at the Global Justice Clinic. "As a party to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the UN Charter, and other international agreements, the UK has committed to cooperate internationally to create an enabling environment for the fulfillment of economic, social and cultural rights. Its current conduct flies in the face of those commitments."
The UK's appearance before the Committee follows on the heels of another pioneering effort to hold tax havens to account. In response to a groundbreaking submission by CESR, GJC, Tax Justice Network and Berne Declaration, the UN's principal women's rights body – the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women – called on Switzerland to account for the impacts of its financial secrecy and corporate tax policies on women's rights and gender equality, especially in low and middle-income countries. These initiatives by UN treaty bodies to scrutinize the tax policies and practices of member states illustrate the important role of human rights norms, principles and institutions in reshaping the international tax regime.
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Amid ongoing Panama Papers fallout, Commission recommends that company beneficial ownership registers be available to general public
As most vocal opponent of increased transparency of trusts votes to leave EU, Commission clamps down on hidden ownership of trusts, but stops short of what's needed
BRUSSELS—Today, the European Commission took a much needed step to improve financial transparency by proposing to make company ownership registers fully available to the public. The proposed changes target the Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD), broader legislation last reviewed in 2015. This review of the AMLD comes just three months after the Panama Papers scandal, which exposed how anonymous companies and trusts are central to hiding wealth from tax authorities and financing criminal activities.
"We are excited that the Commission is finally committed to fully public registers for companies," said Koen Roovers of the Financial Transparency Coalition. "The previous wording included a 'legitimate interest' clause, which opened the door to arbitrary refusal of information requests from concerned citizens and investigative journalists."
But the proposal seems to follow two different tracks: while the registers for companies are made public, the 'legitimate interest' clause is reintroduced for trusts that are deemed 'family trusts'. However, the Panama Papers revealed how family trusts can be problematic in terms of tax abuse, as well.
"We believe that both company and trust beneficial ownership registers should be open to the public, as this transparency is vital to ending anonymous ownership structures in the EU," said Henri Makkonen of the FTC. "Legitimate interest tests with trust registers have all the same problems that we have seen with company registers, so if the Commission decided to scrap the legitimate interest test for one, why would they reintroduce it for the other?"
In addition to the European Commission publishing its legislative proposal, it also came up with a list of countries with a 'high-risk' of money laundering, in line with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an international standard setter in this field.
"The list includes several highly distressed countries – like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan – but none of the big players visible in the Panama Papers. Instead of focusing on this set of countries, the EU would do better in tackling the global problem by setting a robust system for ownership transparency on their own turf," added Makkonen.
To achieve this, the EU needs to close loopholes apparent in the proposed revision. The Commission uses a definition of "beneficial owner" that still opens the door to hiding the real owner of a company by using a nominee director, a favorite tool of money launderers, criminals, and tax evaders, as showcased in the Panama Papers.
Public beneficial ownership registers will also help curtail illicit financial flows out of developing countries, as anonymous company structures are often at the heart of multinational tax abuse, grand corruption, and criminal activity.
Koen Roovers: +32.4.9750.9871, email@example.com
Henri Makkonen: +358407750267, firstname.lastname@example.com
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Christian Freymeyer: +1.410.490.6850, email@example.com
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Why is this important?
The Panama papers are important for several reasons. First, they reveal the breadth and depth of 'legal corruption' taking place within the global financial and legal framework allowing individuals and companies to move monies across the globe irrespective of how they have been obtained. Second, they reveal that issues of corruption; tax avoidance; tax evasion; illicit financial flows (IFFs) can no longer be an 'African or developing country challenge'. The evidence thus far confirms complicit actions from European and American based companies in moving funds to jurisdictions with high secrecy laws. Third, the data and evidence presented in the Panama papers further demonstrate the exploitation by individuals and companies of weak legislative frameworks in developing countries as well as the deep rooted corruption that transcends the national and international architecture.
The Panama papers are important for Tax Justice Network Africa (TJN-A) because they confirm long-held views of a complicit and flawed international financial and legal architecture in moving resources from Africa to tax havens; and off-shore and high secrecy jurisdictions[i]. These monies are often associated with tax avoidance[ii]; tax evasion[iii]; illicit financial flows (IFFs)[iv]; fraud; and corruption, which leave the continent at the expense of African citizens who lack access to basic services such health, education, and water and sanitation. This subsequently impacts governments' ability to finance their countries' development and growth. The impact of outflows due to IFFs on TJN-A member countries is illustrated in Figure One below.
Figure 1: Countries with TJN-A member- organisations (total):
Source: TJN-A based on OECD CRS database; GFI IFF database; and UNCTAD statistical database
Between 2004 and 2014, TJN-A member countries lost over USD 50 billion to IFFs. To put this in perspective, over the same period, TJN-A member countries received USD 30 billion in Official Development Assistance (ODA) and USD 28 billion in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). This is to say that over a ten year period, TJN-A member countries lost approximately twice as much to IFFs than they received in ODA and FDI. This is indeed quite a significant outflow of resources especially considering most TJN-A member countries are low income countries with high incidences of poverty and inequality
A closer examination of why the Panama papers are important is shown in Figure Two below. Consistent with the second release of data by ICIJ and TJN-A's press release the highest registered number of off-shore entities also have the highest inflows through IFFs.
Figure 2: IFFs v ODA 2004-2014 for countries with TJN-A member- organisations (total):
Source: TJN-A based on OECD CRS database and GFI database
From the figure above, it is worth noting the individual TJN-Amember countries affected by outflows by IFFs. Countries like Nigeria, South Africa, Togo, and Zambia have lost more to IFFs than they have received in ODA between 2004 and 2014. This is of concern given the levels of poverty experienced in these countries despite their economic growth and GDP statistics. As Figure Two suggests, the issue of IFFs needs to be addressed both at the global and national levels especially given the countries with the highest IFFs also have the highest number of registered off- shore companies as per the latest Panama leaks.
What is TJN-A doing?
The Panama papers come at a time when TJN-A is at the forefront of several campaigns geared towards to raising awareness on IFFs and the need for a more transparent and efficient global financial and legal architecture. The 'Stop the Bleeding' campaign aims to stop IFFs from Africa. In 2016International Tax Justice Academy (ITJA) and African Parliamentarian Network on Illicit Financial Flows and Tax ( will have IFFs as a major theme and bring together our member countries to ensure the issues of IFFs are at the fore for discussions and policy recommendations.
[i] Tax haven – Jurisdictions whose legal regime is exploited by non-residents to avoid or evade taxes. A tax haven usually has low or zero tax rates on accounts held or transactions by foreign persons or corporations. This is in combination with one or more other factors, including the lack of effective exchange of tax information with other countries, lack of transparency in the tax system and no requirement to have substantial activities in the jurisdiction to qualify for tax residence. Tax havens are the main channel for laundering the proceeds of tax evasion and routing funds to avoid taxes. Secret Jurisdiction – Secrecy jurisdictions are cities, states or countries whose laws allow banking or financial information to be kept private under all or all but few circumstances. Such jurisdictions may create a legal structure specifically for the use of non-residents. The originators of illicit financial flows may need to prevent the authorities in the country of origin from identifying them (e. g. if the money is the proceeds of tax evasion), in which case the flow will be directed to a secrecy jurisdiction. Because those directing IFFs seek out low taxes and secrecy, many tax havens are also secrecy jurisdictions, but the concepts are not identical.
[ii] Tax avoidance – The legal practice of seeking to minimise a tax bill by taking advantage of a loophole or exception to tax regulations or adopting an unintended interpretation of the tax code. Such practices can be prevented through statutory anti-avoidance rules; where such rules do not exist or are not effective, tax avoidance can be a major component of IFFs.
[iii] Tax evasion – Actions by a taxpayer to escape a tax liability by concealing from the revenue authority the income on which the tax liability has arisen. Tax evasion can be a major component of IFFs and entails criminal or civil penalties.
[iv] Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) – Money that is illegally earned, transferred or utilised. Illicit financial flows (IFFs) are illegal movements of money or capital from one country to another. Global Financial Integrity (GFI) classifies this movement as an illicit flow when the funds are illegally earned, transferred, and/or utilised. These funds typically originate from three sources: commercial tax evasion, trade misinvoicing and abusive transfer pricing; criminal activities, including the drug trade, human trafficking, illegal arms dealing, and smuggling of contraband; and bribery and theft by corrupt government officials.
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A new publication by RightingFinance centers on the implications of civil and political rights for tax policy. The publication is the third in a series of advocacy tools on tax policy and human rights with the aim of assisting education and dissemination of the standards on tax policy and human rights contained in the above-mentioned report. Each of the advocacy tools addresses normative foundations of the rights in question, their applications to tax policy – including explanations and references to practical examples – and guiding questions for reflection.
The tax policy cycle, from design of budgets and tax codes, allocation of expenditure, through to monitoring and evaluation of impact are subject to rights to participation, accountability, transparency and access to information.
"Participation may involve creating space for citizens and civil society groups to participate directly in tax assessment processes or creating open forums for citizens to engage with local governments, tax authorities and national Members of Parliament around revenue and budgeting decisions," the report said.
The report warned of the danger that, absent such institutional venues for engagement, elites that control the state have a free hand to capture it and direct its policies to their own benefit. According to a study by the Central American Institute for Fiscal Studies (ICEFI) "elites in Central America were able to shape fiscal policy to their advantage by three key mechanisms: maximizing profits through arguing stimulus to productive activities, economic growth and employment generation; socializing private costs by covering them with public debt or other fiscal policy distortions and aligning fiscal policy with their corporate interests of expansion, consolidation or migration to other sectors."
RightingFinance's publication addresses other issues in the report, such as the ramifications civil and political rights have for access to information on tax policy, natural resource taxation and tax incentives. On the latter, the report underscored how they are "often negotiated in secret between the Government and the company concerned," with significant implications for the right to information, transparency and accountability. It also argued tax incentives are among the fiscal policies that should be subject to judicial oversight.
Among others, the publication invites reflection on questions such as how inclusive tax decision-making processes are regarding the poorest and vulnerable segments of the population. It also inquires on whether the public has access to sufficient data on revenues and expenditures to effectively participate in such processes, where they exist.
The upcoming (and last advocacy tool in this series) will address international cooperation for the achievement of human rights.
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The proposal for a common blacklist stems from the European Commission's external strategy on tax, which was published this January. However, tax havens are not an external matter to the EU, quite the contrary – some of the world's most powerful tax havens are to be found in Europe.
For example, a new report from Oxfam uses European Commission (EC) data to analyse the role of the Netherlands as a corporate tax haven. It shows how the Netherlands is making large-scale tax avoidance possible and how Dutch regulations are an integral part of the international tax system that enables multinationals to avoid at least US$100 billion in taxes in developing countries every year. Several other EU Member States – such as Luxembourg, Ireland, Malta and the UK – have also been criticised for helping multinational corporations to avoid taxes. Yet you will not find any of these countries on a blacklist produced by the EU.
Only a year ago, in June 2015, the EC made an attempt to publish a list of countries considered to be uncooperative on tax matters. Not only did it exclude all EU countries, it also did not mention any of the EU's traditional allies, such as Switzerland and the United States (US). This is in spite of the fact that the Financial Secrecy Index last year ranked Switzerland as the most important provider of international financial secrecy.
In May this year, the Greens/European Free Alliance (EFA) group in the European Parliament published a report showing how the US is becoming the biggest tax haven in the world, with legislation providing several loopholes when it comes to knowing who owns and controls companies. Furthermore, the US has not fully committed to automatic exchange of tax information with other countries, including EU countries.
Shifting the blame
Transparency and automatic exchange of information for tax purposes, in accordance with Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) standards, are some of the criteria mentioned by the EU finance ministers for determining what countries should be listed as uncooperative. Although this is unlikely to concern the US, it may be a problem for many developing countries that do not necessarily have the technical capacity to sign up to automatic exchange of information. The Commission's list from 2015 included countries such as Liberia – one of the poorest countries in the world – which was at the time struggling to cope with an Ebola crisis.
Developing countries may also find themselves faced with the choice of being blacklisted by the EU (and sanctioned accordingly) or having to sign up to a set of agreements made by the OECD in its so-called "Base Erosion and Profit Shifting" project – or BEPS. Linking the blacklisting exercise with OECD BEPS is very worrying as it means developing countries would be pressured to agree to standards that have not been designed in their interest.
Secret negotiations
In addition to these controversies, the EU finance ministers are suggesting the tax haven blacklist should be drawn up by the so-called Code of Conduct Group on business taxation. This top secret discussion forum was set up by EU Member States in 1990 to "abolish existing tax measures that constitute harmful tax competition". The group has become controversial due to its high level of secrecy and opacity, which makes it impossible for citizens to know what is being agreed on, if anything.
While very little is known about the workings of the group, it is clear that the system of closed-door negotiations and peer pressure has failed to deal with the widespread problem of corporate tax avoidance in the EU and elsewhere. The meetings include representatives of EU Member States as well as the EC. Leaked documents from the group have shown that meetings in the past have been extremely political. Some of the Member States that make use of harmful tax practices have been very successful in blocking proposals to remove these practices and protect their own special interests.
Instead of being based on neutral and objective criteria, the putting together of a common EU blacklist of tax havens is thus bound to be a highly political exercise, where rich and powerful countries such as the US and Switzerland are protected from blacklisting. There also already seems to be broad agreement in the EU that no EU Member State can be blacklisted. As tempting as it may be to put the blame of corporate tax avoidance on some tax haven islands far away, the EU needs to start by cleaning up its own backyard.
The core essence of the tax haven problem is that financial assets can be moved from one end of the world to the other with the click of a mouse. Therefore, a blacklist that includes a few smaller tax havens, but excludes some of the world's biggest, will not solve the problem. It will simply move the problem from one country to the other. Although a fair, transparent, global blacklist of tax havens could be a good idea in theory, the EU's next list of tax havens is unlikely to become anything else than another example of European double standards.
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Nelson Shin To Appear on CNN Talk Asia
Thursday, October 18th, 2007 11:43AM CDTCategories: People News, Media
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"Dubbed the "Godfather of Animation" in South Korea, Nelson Shin is behind such iconic animated characters as the Simpsons, Pink Panther and Transformers. Shin shows Anjali Rao how his studio breathes life into cartoons, talking her through the animation process from basic pencil drawings to computer-generated movements. His work also extends to live action, including the famous Star Wars lightsaber.
Although he has enjoyed enormous success in the animation field, Shin never received any training. Born in North Korea, he left his hometown and moved South during the upheaval of the Korean War when he was 13 years old. Looking back, Shin relates to Rao how these early experiences have helped him develop a strong character and the ability to focus totally on his work.
Shin's AKOM studio now also creates many of its own original characters and recently released the animated film "Princess Chung." Hailed as a step towards greater unity on the Korean peninsula, the film saw a rare collaboration between North and South Korean animators and actors. Shin discusses the process of doing business in the North and his impressions of the capital Pyongyang".
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Cyber-Kun wrote:Very interesting read, I didn't know he was involved with the Star Wars lightsaber effectInvolved?! He invented the effect! He was the Special FX director for New Hope and especially created it for the movie. A technique that was still used for the newer movies, despite all the computer advancements. A technique that was also used for the Energy bars and energon in the 1986 Transformers movie. His link with StarWars was the reason why there so many (inside) StarWars jokes in Transformers. Harold Edsel and Carrie Fishhook in Hoist Goes Hollywood, Arcee's head design or even the Rodimus Prime Matrix Movie poster, that is a hommage to the 1977 New Hope poster. Just to name three.
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