How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy

Trump’s protection racket for the world’s largest corporate tax dodgers continues, this makes the G7’s Pillar 2 exemptions for US MNCs even more absurd! @cictar.bsky.social
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A photo of Jason Ward with a caption showing his comments that the corporations involved in the 'Back Australia' campaign should start with paying basic income tax to support public services

CICTAR's Jason Ward makes an appearance during ABC's Media Watch less than approving analysis of the 'Back Australia' campaign by major corporations (at 4.45).

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Australia Issues Guidance On Public Country-By-Country Law - Law360 Tax Authority Australia issued guidance Friday on how to comply with its public country-by-country reporting law, including filing instructions, formatting and the information required to be disclosed.

Public country by country reporting, it's coming soon...
The world's best multinational tax transparency reporting requirement! (best for now...) @cictar.bsky.social
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CSL and Optus pay millions to executives despite paying no company tax in Australia — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research Jason Ward quoted in Guardian article on low tax payments by CSL

“It’s a bit rich for the executives to get so much money when the company, which was initially a public enterprise … [doesn’t] contribute tax revenue from its profits back to its home country,”

CICTAR's Jason Ward quoted in the Guardian, on CSL's tax payments cictar.org/news/guardia...

Private Healthcare company Healthscope under fire over proposal to farm millions in employees' tax benefits — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research ABC report on tax shenanigans proposed by a private health company, owned by Canadian asset managers Brookfield, as it seeks to re-launch itself as a non-profit outfit.

'This is a phoney use of a non-profit status in order to create private wealth. It absolutely makes no sense'

CICTAR's Jason Ward talks to Australian National Broadcaster, ABC about the proposed tax games of private healthcare company Healthscope:

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Who owns that company? Find out in 2028 for just $207m — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research Michael West media and the Canberra Times report on a new register of business ownership to be created by Australia

"If you had loved ones in an aged care home that was owned by men convicted of torturing more than a million chickens, you’d surely want to know"

CICTAR's Jason Ward explains why Australia's move to transparency on business ownership is a good thing: cictar.org/news/canberr...

$500m CPP Scandal: A new Podcast with CICTAR Principal Analyst, Jason Ward — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research Podcast featuring CICTAR Principal Analyst, Jason Ward

Another great podcast from Canadian podcaster Millennial Moron. This time with CICTAR's Jason Ward. Together they look at the private equity style behaviour of Canadian pension funds, and take a dive into the detail of the scandal surrounding the French care company ORPEA. cictar.org/news/podcast...

‘Policy For The People’ podcast: Jason Ward on Starbucks in Oregon. And how big corporations hide their profits — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research Podcast featuring CICTAR researcher, Jason Ward

How much profit does Starbucks make in the US State of Oregon and how much does it pay in taxes to the state? We don’t know. Find out WHY we don't know in the new podcast from @ocppnews.bsky.social with CICTAR's Jason Ward:
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How big corporations hide their profits — and how to stop it - Oregon Center for Public Policy I want to thank Jason Ward and Spandan Marasini for sharing their insights into how it is that big corporations hide their profits and what we can do to

You may have heard of corporations using #OffshoreTaxHavens to avoid taxes, but what does that actually look like? The latest episode of Policy for the People breaks it down

@itep.org, @jasonward-cictar.bsky.social, @cictar.bsky.social

Livi Gerbase from the Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research (CICTAR) joins Canadian podcaster extraordinaire ‘Millennial Moron’ to discuss ways that Brookfield and other Canadian pension fund managers are leveraging tax havens and tax-advantaged programs to privatize public utilities in Latin America. Using CICTAR’s case studies of Isagen in Colombia and BRK Ambiental in Brazil they discuss the decline in capital investment into infrastructure, increases in prices to consumers, stagnant wages for workers, and the massive increase in debt charges to these former public utilities - which are potentially being used as a profit-shifting scheme to avoid paying taxes to the local governments where these utilities are located. CICTAR highly recommends a full perusal of this illuminating youtube channel, described as ‘Canadian content for people who love to hate Canadian content’ and providing accessible, but detailed insight into themes linking closely with a lot of our work.

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New paper from New Zealand Council of Trade Unions/Te Kauae Kaimahi on public energy ownership (with research support from CICTAR) — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research A new paper from New Zealand Council of Trade unions calling for a return to public ownership for the electricity system

'The partial privatisation of our electricity system has prevented growth... A state of manufactured scarcity has delivered rising energy bills...and huge dividends to shareholders'

New paper from NZCTU, with CICTAR research support, on problems of energy privatization: cictar.org/news/nzctu/p...

Optus among companies earning billions in Australia but paying no income tax — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research The Guardian reports on the latest ATO data and apparent tax minimization by multinationals operating in Australia

“Generally most Australian companies do the right thing...

Most of the abuse we see comes from the big multinationals, and big US multinationals in particular"

CICTAR's Jason Ward in the Guardian, commenting on the latest Aus Tax Office 'Corporate Transparency Report':

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Water down investment, top up returns - The pitfalls of financing Basic Sanitation in Brazil — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research The Brazilian people are subsidising the privatisation of water resources that, before Bolsonaro’s sanitation law, were publicly owned. Large companies are using loans that benefit from federal tax i...

From Brazil, the Union of Water, Sewage, and Environmental Workers in the State of Bahia (SINDAE-Bahia) teamed up with @cictar.bsky.social to show how the privatization of their sewer systems are enriching a Canada-based private corporation, an "asset manager" called Brookfield.

📣 The price of going green: Tax gaps in the Energy Transition

What are the real fiscal costs of going green? This panel explores the real fiscal costs of the energy transition. #ClimateForChange2025

📅 13–14 Oct | 📍 UNICAMP & online 🔗 Register: bit.ly/4jbO2zp

‘Corporate Canada's deal making needs more sunlight’ — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research Jason Ward calls for greater tax transparency in Canada’s National Observer

"The Canadian government must not bow to corporate pressure — or President Donald Trump — and instead ensure that profits earned in Canada are taxed in Canada"

CICTAR's Jason Ward on why Canada should follow Australia on tax transparency in Canada's National Observer: cictar.org/news/canadao...

Rights Groups Call for Probe of World Bank Hospital Funding More than 50 human rights organizations, nonprofits and international development experts are calling on the World Bank to investigate its health-care investments in Africa and Asia, citing Bloomberg ...

The World Bank, and other development agencies are using 'development' finance to promote privatized healthcare. Bloomberg has uncovered clear evidence of the negative impacts on patients and workers. CICTAR, our comrades at KMPDU,PSI and many others demand change: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"The link on tax & climate is essential - we need to make sure that the government policies in spending & in tax are oriented towards #ClimateJustice & not just doing greenwashing." Livi Gerbase @cictar.bsky.social

#ClimateForChange2025 this October in Brazil + online👉https://bit.ly/4jbO2zp

US business giants ask Trump to bully Australia into dropping new tax transparency laws. CICTAR says ‘no credible evidence’ to back up their concerns. — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accounta... US business giants object to transparency and ask Trump to bully Australia on their behalf.

“It is clear that most large US multinationals would prefer to keep the scale and location of massive profit shifting out of the public eye”

CICTAR's Jason Ward comments on the lobbying of Trump by US businesses to bully Australia into dropping tax transparency laws.

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Brazil Media Covers New Report From CICTAR And Sindae — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research Brazilian media coverage of CICTAR and Sindae’s new report on privatization in Brazil’s water and sanitation sector

Amazing coverage in the Brazlian media of our recent report on privatized water and sanitation services, in partnership with local union, SINDAE: cictar.org/news/brazilm...

@psiglobalunion.bsky.social

Water down investment, top up returns - The pitfalls of financing Basic Sanitation in Brazil — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research The Brazilian people are subsidising the privatisation of water resources that, before Bolsonaro’s sanitation law, were publicly owned. Large companies are using loans that benefit from federal tax i...

"paying large sums...to win a sanitation concession auction has led to cases of corruption and high fees...France banned this practice in 1995. In Brazil, not only are we not prohibiting it, we are encouraging it with public funds”
Livi Gerbase (CICTAR)

New report here: cictar.org/all-research...

Despite $22bn promise, Adani has paid zero corporate tax in Australia and experts think it won’t ever pay a cent — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research The Guardian reports on how Adani’s Australian assets regularly report annual losses despite strong revenue

“My judgment on this is that this company is absolutely set up to never make taxable profit,”

CICTAR's Jason Ward comments in the Guardian on related part transactions and 'loss making' operations at Adani in Australia:
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YouTube video by ABC News (Australia) Australia to miss out on tax top-up from multinationals | The Business | ABC NEWS

Talking tax on TV (squatting @ MUA - Sydney Branch) calling out Trump for attempting to run a protection racket for giant US tax dodging multinationals
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ABC News: Australia to miss out on tax top-up from multinationals as Trump ends OECD reform. Read, listen, watch — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research ABC reports on how Australia will miss out on tax take as a result of G7 countries ‘caving’ to Trump

"Trump is essentially running a protection racket for larger US multinationals that most people already know are the most aggressive in dodging their tax obligations on...the vast profits they make in Australia and around the world."

CICTAR's Jason Ward on ABC: cictar.org/news/abc/tru...

[ #política: NÓS CONTRA ELES - E AS EMPRESAS DELES]

Livi Gerbase explica:
"Apesar de receberem bilhões em incentivos fiscais federais não sabemos quanto as empresas pagam de impostos, nem seus investimentos ou empregados. Precisamos q multinacionais contribuam com o Brasil e paguem seus impostos"
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Environmental platform ‘Sumaúma’ reports on the tax exemptions that are fuelling deforestation and pollution in the Amazon — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research Sumaúma article on tax exemptions for agribusiness es operating in Brazil

"Despite receiving billions in federal tax incentives, we don’t know how much tax they pay in Brazil". CICTAR's Livi Gerbase quoted in Sumaúma's excellent report on the Brazilian tax exemptions on destructive global agribusiness. Written with support from CICTAR: cictar.org/news/sumauma...

Fair Observer publishes CICTAR op-ed on Merck shareholder transparency push — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research ‘Fair Observer’ article by CICTAR’s Jason Ward

'Merck can hide its murky profit shifting and tax dodging for a bit longer, but greater tax transparency is coming soon'. CICTAR's Principal Analyst Jason Ward writes about the recent shareholder vote on tax transparency at global pharma giant Merck.

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a photo of four people standing on the steps of the new zealand supreme court. three are holding workers first union flags, while the person in the middle has a hand on their hips and is raising a fist skyward. they all look awesome

4/4 *data regarding Uber’s “shifting” of hundreds of million in profits can be found in the recent @cictar.bsky.social Uber report, co-produced by Workers First: cictar.org/all-research...

text reading “this report argues that misclassification sits at the centre of the Uber model” a subtitle reads “Costing the Uber model in Aotearoa”

text reading “It underestimates revenue… while overestimating losses.” a subtitle reads “Costing the Uber model in Aotearoa”

text reading “We estimated 2023 grossbooking revenue to be $867 million… That year Rasier and Portier incurred a corporate income tax expense of just 1.2 million.” a subtitle reads “Costing the Uber model in Aotearoa”

text reading “”Intercompany service fees” account for 83-94% of revenue.” a subtitle reads “Costing the Uber model in Aotearoa”

Uber shifts 100s of millions of dollars out of the NZ economy while paying a pittance in tax.

This @cictar.bsky.social/Workers First report shows that in 2023 they paid $1.2 million in tax while transferring $200 million+ in “intercompany service fees” out of NZ.

Report: cictar.org/all-research...

A new report from Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research (@cictar.bsky.social), commissioned by #WorkersFirstUnion, shows how misclassification sits at the heart of Uber’s business model... (1/6)

Uber in New Zealand: The Business of Misclassification — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research Uber in New Zealand: The business of misclassification

Our new report on Uber in NZ!

With @workersfirstunion.bsky.social we allege the company misclassifies its profits as “service fees” to avoid taxes, much as it appears to misclassify its drivers as contractors to avoid mini wage, sick leave and union rights

👉 cictar.org/all-research...