Blogs from Tax Justice Network and IUF on CICTAR Starbucks report — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research TJN and IUF blogs on latest Starbucks report

New blogs from our allies at Tax Justice Network and the IUF on CICTAR's latest Starbucks report: cictar.org/news/tjniuf/...

Behind Starbucks’ “ethical sourcing” lies a global tax dodge shifting profits from coffee-producing countries to Switzerland. Customers pay an “ethical” premium while vital revenues for schools & hospitals are lost. - @jasonward-cictar.bsky.social, @cictar.bsky.social👉 taxjustice.net/2026/02/17/t...

Journalist Karin Wenger in the Swiss media outlet Beobachter: ‘Starbucks presents itself as a pioneer for “ethically procured” coffee worldwide. But a new study shows that high profits are recorded in Switzerland, while coffee countries and farmers hardly benefit’ cictar.org/news/beobach...

New report on how EU procurement rules keep awarding the tax avoiders EU procurement reforms must stop rewarding tax dodging corporations with public money, unions warn.

address tax avoidance in the review of the procurement directives

The proposals how to do this of @cictar.bsky.social ⬇️

We expect the Commission stepping up as estimated loss in the EU due to avoidance and profit shifting is estimated to be annually 150-190 bn Euros (EP)

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Starbucks: Ethical Sourcing or Swiss Swindle? - IUF

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Our New Research Shows Global Corporate Tax Reforms Would Boost Public Revenues by 50% Groundbreaking research shows taxing multinational profits where they are generated at a 25% minimum could expand global public revenues by over $700 billion per year: enough to end extreme poverty te...

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Bloomberg: Companies’ big overseas tax bills spur profit-shifting concerns — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research Bloomberg reports on emerging data from new US transparency laws, which show the scale of tax losses from large multinationals. With quotes from CICTAR’s Jason Ward and other tax justice campaigners.

'Indications that US companies are paying more abroad than at home aren’t surprising' said CICTAR's Jason Ward

“The new data provides specific details to what we already knew...Most large US multinationals are huge global tax dodgers and major abusers of tax havens”

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WATCH: 'Waters Edge' tax breaks would end if California bill passes Editor's note: This story has been updated since its original publication to add a video.

Thrilled to see SEIU driving this much needed and long overdue multinational tax reform in California!!! @cictar.bsky.social has been pushing this for years!

New report reveals huge profits and low taxes made from care home real estate — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research You can read Cofinimmo’s response to the report here . 29th June 2023 - Press Release A new report released today by CICTAR lays bare the little-known world of care home real estate investment an...

so municipalities and regulatory bodies can hire

No attention in the EP Housing report for real estate multinationals
@cictar.bsky.social exposed how they benefit

Role of EIB and other public banks mentioned but again condionalities missing www.epsu.org/article/publ...

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Terrific piece of particular interest to pension fund watchers

Starbucks compra café na Suíça e pode prejudicar Brasil, diz estudo Estudo internacional aponta que rede de cafeterias tem prática de registrar na Suíça as compras do grão, gerando lucros de 18%

"CICTAR recommends that tax authorities in countries where Starbucks operates support centers carefully analyze payments made between these units and the subsidiary in Switzerland." @cictar.bsky.social @coffeewatch.bsky.social
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As @sbworkersunited.org continue the fight for collective agreement, higher pay and better conditions, new report @cictar.bsky.social exposes Starbuck's profit-shifting to Switserland leaving hardly any taxes in coffee producing countries undermining funding public services
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Water for sale: from the Thames to the Amazon — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research The Ecologist explores the parallels between the failures of water privatization in the UK and Brazil, drawing on recent CICTAR research on BRK Ambiental, Brazil’s largest sanitation operator, contro...

Drawing on CICTAR’s recent report on financing of water and sanitation in Brazil, The Ecologist explains how Britain’s water privatisation concept is exported to Brazil, leading to the same stories of polluted rivers, collapsing ecosystems and communities left adrift: cictar.org/news/ecologi...

New CICTAR report shows Starbucks shifts global coffee profits to Switzerland via an 18% mark‑up, moving an estimated US$1.3B over a decade. Meanwhile, little support reaches farmers. A clear case of profit extraction from the Global South.

Mônica Bergamo: Starbucks concentra lucros na Suíça e repassa impostos para países produtores, diz relatório OUTRO LADO: Empresa diz cumprir integralmente as leis tributárias em todo o mundo

@cictar.bsky.social Starbucks report lands in Brazil's largest newspaper! Time for coffee-producing countries to tax the profits Starbucks shifts to Switzerland and to push for global tax reforms!!! (paywall & Portuguese warning)

💥 News zum #Steuerdumping bei #Starbucks: in einem frischen Bericht zeigt @cictar.bsky.social mit neuen Zahlen, wie der Konzern Gewinne von den Kaffeeplantagen in #Kolumbien und #Tansania ins Handelsbüro nach #Lausanne verschiebt. 👇
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The ‘Swiss Swindle’ — Does Starbucks short-change coffee-producing countries? — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research While claiming 99% of its coffee beans are ‘ethically’ sourced, Starbucks’ shifts profits to Switzerland, leaving scant revenue for coffee-producing countries and perpetuating poverty in farming commu...

Starbucks’ shifts profits to Switzerland, leaving scant revenue for coffee-producing countries. Read all about it in the new CICTAR report:

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Jim Chalmers: No tax, no contract This government-hired debt collected paid $0 in corporate tax – despite revenue of more than $100 million. Tell Jim Chalmers: No tax, no pay

This government-hired debt collected paid $0 in corporate tax – despite revenue of more than $100 million. Tell Jim Chalmers: No tax, no pay getup.to/2ndvZfMC8Y8iQ
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Debt collector hired to chase unpaid taxes for the ATO pays zero corporate tax itself Neither Recoveriescorp nor its parent entity has paid the tax since securing multi-million dollar government contracts

Seriously! Time for govt's to stop outsourcing, especially to tax dodging corporations, particularly private equity owned or multinationals... @cictar.bsky.social @epsu.bsky.social @cpsu.org.au

EU Should Use Tax Transparency For Public Bids, Report Says - Law360 Tax Authority The European Union should require large companies to submit country-by-country tax reports to authorities when bidding for public contracts, a tax transparency group and EU public-sector union said ah...

EU Should Use Tax Transparency For Public Bids, Report Says
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Stay tuned. Tomorrow morning we publish @cictar.bsky.social report -addressing aggressive tax avoidance behaviour through EU Public procurement legislation

Examples of tech companies

No public funds to tax dodgers

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New report on how EU procurement rules keep awarding the tax avoiders EU procurement reforms must stop rewarding tax dodging corporations with public money, unions warn.

And the report of @cictar.bsky.social on using EU Procurement to address tax avoidance is out

Some companies including US Big tech try to win public contracts, loving workers' and people's tax money, but leaving us poorer by avoiding to pay fair share of taxes

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Call centre operator that won major Centrelink contract paid no corporate tax for two years — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research Jason Ward quoted in Guardian article on outsource call centre operator receiving large public contracts while paying no corporation tax

"federal government should subject those bidding for public contracts to higher levels of transparency"

Jason Ward, CICTAR:

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Call centre operator that won major Centrelink contract paid no corporate tax for two years — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research Jason Ward quoted in Guardian article on outsource call centre operator receiving large public contracts while paying no corporation tax

Telco Services Australia, generated more than $185m in 2024-25 but reported no taxable income while having a $90m-plus govt contract.

Jason Ward (CICTAR) said the business appeared to be structured in ways “to have avoided reporting and tax obligations in Australia”.

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tuned here as we publish a @cictar.bsky.social briefing soon on how such companies could be forced to be more transparent when applying for public funds

EU commissioner @steph-sejourne.bsky.social will have a choice to deal with tax avoidance and contribute to fairness

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Starbucks’ Swiss Scheme: ‘Fair’ Trading or Global Tax Dodge? — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research Report reveals $1.3 billion Starbucks profit diverted to Swiss subsidiary over the last decade. 99% of all the corporation's coffee is transferred, on paper, through Switzerland, despite most of it ne...

Union busting and tax dodging, both disgusting! @cictar.bsky.social
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A Truly Progressive Tax Reform: Lula's Greatest Legacy for Fiscal Justice — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research CICTAR Researcher reflects on the new reform bill in Brazil, which includes taxation on Dividend payments, a reform previously highlighted by CICTAR’s research into links between company and family b...

'this reform will be Lula's greatest legacy of fiscal justice in his three terms as president and will remove the country from the shameful list of countries that do not tax dividends.'

CICTAR's Livi Gerbase on Brazil's new tax reform here: cictar.org/news/brazilt...

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