It's crazy that this Swiss subsidiary isn't even listed as existing in Starbucks consolidated accounts in the US.
Great digging by @cictar.bsky.social and @itep.org www.businessinsider.com/starbucks-us...
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I'm working at the Financial Transparency Coalition, interested in all things tax justice to fund public services, financial transparency to end illicit financial flows, austerity, a Rights-Based Economy and feminist, green and decolonial economies.
It's crazy that this Swiss subsidiary isn't even listed as existing in Starbucks consolidated accounts in the US.
Great digging by @cictar.bsky.social and @itep.org www.businessinsider.com/starbucks-us...
yksinkertaisesti toimiva hyvinvointivaltio, jota rahoitetaan verotuksella kerΓ€tyillΓ€ julkisilla investoinneilla ja veronkierron suitsemisella, ja yritysten kolmikantaan sitouttaminen auttaa palkkakehityksellΓ€. Menisi pohja pois siirtolaisten vastustamisesta.
06.03.2025 09:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Happening today and excited to participate. Warwick Business School event in London 'From Baku to BelΓ©m'. Greater coherence needed between the UNFCCC and the negotiations for the UN Tax Convention to mobilise resources via internatinal tax cooperation and advancing ownership and asset transparency.
04.03.2025 10:39 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0A great morning run by the Basingstoke Canal, frosty in -5 but no snow in Surrey.
10.01.2025 12:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Cities like London should invest in pedestrianisation, cycling, and cheaper public transport, making drivers pay isn't enough. I went to London on New Year's day by car due to expensive and unreliable trains and no CC/ULEZ on the day for EVs, I'd not go on any other day to the CC zone. rb.gy/tflyga
10.01.2025 10:26 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The end of fact checking and content moderation on Meta platforms (FB, Insta, Threads) spells the end of meaningful conversation. They just become enablers for hateful, and abusive intent. With many secretive accounts, and hidden ownership, we won't know who even know who is behind it.
rb.gy/tflyga
Who owns Londonβs luxury real estate? Sometimes there's no way to know.
The family of Azerbaijani dictator Ilham Aliyev held properties in the British capital worth millions of dollars. Do they still own them?
We can't tell. Theyβre hidden behind a secretive offshore trust.
Our latest storyπ§΅π
@stevejgoodrich.bsky.social @bcowdock.bsky.social Checking you saw this from the Isle of Man, given mention of Isle of Man trust in your latest story with OCCRP. Happy Christmas!
20.12.2024 09:26 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1Instead of building schools and hospitals, billions in public funds from Africa vanish into offshore accounts, luxury real estate and shell companies.
We have analysed 78 cases, revealing where stolen funds end up. Check it out! β¬οΈ https://buff.ly/3BoJPZ0
HMRC fined 83,000 people who earned below the tax threshold for failing to file a tax return.
They should be fighting tax dodging by the richest β not penalising the poorest. taxjustice.uk/blog/hmrc-sh...
Last month, a statement from the U.K.βs foreign secretary said that Isabel dos Santos βsystematically abused her positions at state-run companies to embezzle at least [$443 million], depriving Angola of resources and funding for much-needed development.β
15.12.2024 22:57 β π 22 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0The public has the right to know who is developing this building, and if we have public access to BO, asset registries like vessels, aircraft, land and crops, logging licences, real estate registries in all countries so that we can trace how this wealth was made. 4/4
14.12.2024 10:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Most countries now start to have a centralised BO registry due to the update in the FATF recommendation 24, but it is not required to be public, and to make matters worse an EU Court of Justice ruling in 2022 invalidated public access in EU countries. But the UK still has it. 3/4
14.12.2024 10:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This is an example of how as a result of more than a decade of advocacy and campaign work the UK has a public beneficial ownership registry, accessible free of charge at the Companies House under "beneficial owners" tab related to the company, see, tinyurl.com/8ejmykez 2/4
14.12.2024 10:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Why we need public beneficial ownership transparency! "Aroland Holdings is a" ... BVI-registered company whose BO ... " is listed as Kuok Khoon Hong, the co-founder of Singaporeβs Wilmar International, one of the worldβs largest oil palm plantation owners."
tinyurl.com/5fz3krct 1/4
A great opportunity to publish a paper on offshore secrecy, esp. if you're into social theory, Georg Simmel, econ sociology or socio-economics.
09.12.2024 16:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In the 1980sβ90s, many previously prominent social scientific questions on power and inequality faded into the background. Our brand-new article w/ @phdskat.org at @ripejournal.bsky.social probes into this dynamic through the concept of 'corporate escape' π§΅ 1/10 www.tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/...
08.12.2024 09:53 β π 85 π 30 π¬ 3 π 3But this all needs a shift in the mindset from funding to financing, as it should really be about systemic reforms and enabling a more representative, transparent and rights-based Global Financial Architecucture (GFA) allowing for financing to be levied via taxes, not lost in debt payments, etc. 8/8
02.12.2024 10:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Similarly financing for education, financing for health, fiancing for social protection and care economies are better achieved through systemic reforms, increased taxing rights, dealing with debt, greater financial and tax transparency,transparency of private finance flows. 7/8
02.12.2024 10:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0As COP29 in Baku failed on climate financing, we can expect aligning climate financing with systemic reforms in the debt, tax architecture e.g. higher and better allocated global min tax esp. for fossil fuel companies, high net-worth individual taxation, rather than asking global North directly 6/8
02.12.2024 10:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Grappling with an unprecedented debt crisis, we can expect that in establishing their role as a rule-maker, African states together with other G77 countries will push for changing the international debt architecture this time at FfD4. A UN Framework Convention on Debt enabled by language in FfD4 5/8
02.12.2024 10:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 01st FfD conference in Monterrey 2002 already saw the request for creating an International Tax Organisation (ITO) solidarity levies like financial transaction taxes to fund development, all vetoed by rich countries in a consensus process. It did lead to a debt cancellation and increases in aid 4/8
02.12.2024 10:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 02nd FfD Conference in Doha 2008 was a response to the Global Financial Crisis, but UN led response to the crisis was overtaken by the G20-OECD in financial regulation, reforms of international taxation benefiting mostly rich countries. This partly led to BRICS countries forming greater ties 3/8
02.12.2024 10:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The 3rd FfD Conference in Addis in 2015 set in motion the road for the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (UNFCITC), a more equal tax system for Global South countries in allocating taxing rights and revenue, and align tax systems with human rights, environment, and gender 2/8
02.12.2024 10:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This week is the 2nd Prep Committee for 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD) taking place in Seville, 30 Jun-3 Jul. This matters for tackling Illicit Financial Flows, the international tax and debt architecture and transparency of private finance, tinyurl.com/3b8fpenr 1/8
02.12.2024 10:37 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Amazon will make billions from Black Friday.
Their workers across the country are protesting today, highlighting poor working conditions and Amazon's tax avoidance.
It's time the government stop the tax breaks and #MakeAmazonPay
Why should funders prioritise the #UN #FfD4 conference in Seville, Jul/2025? The Global Financial Architecture on international tax and debt co-operation, regulating private finance and trade flows is being framed (if not directly defined) starting negotiation tracks, processes:
bubs.live/FGyxHxGa3
Livestreamed/Geneva event! "Exploring the Linkages between the Human Rights Economy with and the Right to Development" 26 Nov, 15:30-16:45 CET, Room XXVII, Palais des Nations. UN SR Right to Development, Act Alliance, CIDSE, @hrw.org, @cesr.bsky.social, Franciscans Intl. Stream: tinyurl.com/yrrpe3r7
22.11.2024 10:17 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0It's one of the better databases on tax info world wide, but it lacks the tools to see if levying taxes is progressive. For that we need deeper analysis on tax progressivity.
22.11.2024 10:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yes!!! π EU governments reject the amendments that would weaken the EU deforestation law! ππ²
#EUDR #deforestation #NatureLoss #biodiversity #Amazon