COMUNICADO DE IMPRENSA   4 de novembro de 2018   Um ano depois dos “Paradise Papers”, a Comissão Independente para a Reforma da Taxaçao Corporativa Internacional (ICRICT) considera que o mundo não fez progressos suficientes para combater os paraísos fiscais. Com 10% do PIB global escondido em paraísos fiscais e crescentes desigualdades nos países […]

4 November 2018

Berkeley economist and ICRICT commissioner Gabriel Zucman discussed the detrimental impact of tax havens on the sustainability of globalization during the first lecture of the semesterly Seymour E. & Ruth B. Harris Lecture Series in Economics on October 17, 2018. Gabriel Zucman, an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley, speaks about globalization, taxes, and inequality in […]

23 October 2018

The Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT) with Oxfam International, FriedrichEbert-Stiftung, Financial Transparency Coalition, The South Centre organize this panel during the Civil Society Policy Forum October 9-12, 2018 World Bank Group / IMF 2018 Annual Meetings in Bali. Organizers: ICRICT, OXFAM, FTC (Financial Transparency Coalition)   Illicit financial flows strip […]

9 October 2018

ICRICT’s commissioners José Antonio Ocampo, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Piketty, Eva Joly, Valpy Fitzgerald, Wayne Swan, Jayati Ghosh, Gabriel Zucman, Suzanne Matale, Ifueko Okauru, Kim Henares, Ricardo Martner, Leonce Ndikumana and Magdalena Sepulveda are concerned at the lack of progress shown by the Council on the EU CCCTB proposal and have today written (see attached letter) to […]

1 October 2018

Drug companies as tax dodgers, price gougers, and influence peddlers New Oxfam research shows that four pharmaceutical corporations—Abbott, Johnson & Johnson, Merck & CO (MSD), and Pfizer—systematically stash their profits in overseas tax havens. They appear to deprive developing countries of more than $100 million every year—money that is urgently needed to meet the health […]

21 September 2018

ICRICT commissioner Gabriel Zucman and his colleague Thomas Wright just published a paper about the evolution of the taxes paid by U.S. multinationals on their foreign profits since 1966. In sectors other than oil, the effective foreign tax rate has fallen by half since the late 1990s. Almost half of this decline owes to the […]

10 September 2018

Roger Smith Hotel 501 Lexington Avenue New York, NY, 10017 United States (map) BY INVITATION ONLY Tuesday, September 4, 2018, 6:00 – 8:00 pm   The recovery from the recession 10 years ago has been patchy. Trade tensions have been rising. Reform of the financial system has been incomplete. In these times, finance has gained influence, rising […]

2 September 2018

  PRESS RELEASE 16 August 2018   ICRICT welcoming Chilean economist Ricardo Martner as a new commissioner Two new members just entered ICRICT’s coalition: the Arab NGO Network for Development (Annd) and the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)   The Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT) is pleased to […]

16 August 2018

June 18, 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New T20’s paper urges G20 leaders to take action to reverse the current tendency to engage in harmful tax competition and provide a level playing field for taxation and investment. The Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT) is pleased to share a paper written by […]

18 June 2018

PRESS RELEASE Commissioners represent ICRICT in events in New York, Yogyakarta and Bogotá. The Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT) is pleased to announce that four of its commissioners will advocate for a change of the taxation paradigm during three different events in the days to come. – The 2018 ECOSOC […]

24 April 2018