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"Systems that enable tax to be shirked on an industrial scale clearly have to change. The likes of Palantir need to stump up what’s due" Unison Gen Sec Andrea Egan, quoted in the Guardian responding to CICTAR's latest report on global tech company Palantir: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts
Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss
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🚨 Breaking New report @cictar.bsky.social on tax behaviour US Big Tech company Palantir Benefitting from public money but avoiding paying fair taxes undermining finance for public services and public pensions @corporateeurope.org @taxobservatory.bsky.social www.epsu.org/article/pala...
Coca-Cola’s tax magic means big earnings for the world's largest soft-drinks manufacturer, but billions in lost revenue for ordinary Brazilians, shows our new report with ACT Brasil cictar.org/all-research... #taxjustice
The Tax Magic of Coca-Cola — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
This report reveals a global pattern of tax aggressive behaviour by Coca-Cola, which penalises governments worldwide and benefits billionaire investors. The report specifically analyses the case of B...
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A mágica fiscal da Coca-Cola significa lucros enormes para a maior fabricante de refrigerantes do mundo, mas bilhões em receita perdida para o povo brasileiro, revela o novo relatório do CICTAR cictar.org/all-research... #justiçafiscal
A mágica tributária da Coca-Cola — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
ALSO AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH A Coca-Cola, com receita global anual de US$ 47,1 bilhões em 2024, é a maior corporação de bebidas do mundo. Este relatório revela um padrão global de comportamento fiscalm...
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Livi Gerbase, pesquisadora do CICTAR, fala sobre a “mágica tributária” da Coca-Cola no #Brasil (É dizer como o Brasil perde bilhões em receitas) no podcast @edasuaconta.bsky.social podcasts.taxjustice.net/pt-br/episod...
#84 Manobras da Coca-Cola, agronegócio e setor imobiliário para lucrar mais - Tax Justice Network podcasts
Podcast sobre como consertar a economia para que ela funcione para todas as pessoas e o planeta.
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Another billion dollars over 30 years? DP World is known to CICTAR, with previous reports on operations in Canada, Australia and globally. Now, CICTAR researcher Ed Miller looks into the financials for a DP World led consortium bid for Lyttelton Port in New Zealand: cictar.org/news/interes...
Another billion dollars over 30 years? CICTAR’s Edward Miller looks at DP World’s consortium bid for Lyttelton Port — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Ed Miller examines the financial case for a DP World led consortium takeover of Lyttelton Port
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Proud to have worked with CPSU to highlight, and challenge, the profiteering and lack of transparency in the outsourced jobseekers sector www.cpsu.org.au/CPSU/Content... @cpsu.org.au
Australia's jobseeker system fails workers and enriches millionaires
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Yup, this should either be a government run service, or at worst, restricted to be the sole domain of the non-profit sector. For-profit employment services should be prohibited.
I knew this system was monstrous but I genuinely did not expect corporations profiting -handsomely- from it to be such a shambles Transparency is kind of a boring demand but it's shocking how little accountability there is for govt contractors
@cictar.bsky.social · 2w ago'Australia's system of privatised employment services is structurally broken and its prized federal contracts are being used to enrich millionaires and private equity firms’. Check out ABC's coverage of our latest report (and, non-Aussies, find out what 'rorting' means). cictar.org/news/abc/job...
'Australia's system of privatised employment services is structurally broken and its prized federal contracts are being used to enrich millionaires and private equity firms’. Check out ABC's coverage of our latest report (and, non-Aussies, find out what 'rorting' means). cictar.org/news/abc/job...
ABC coverage of new CICTAR report on Australia’s outsourced jobseeker system — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Media coverage of CICTAR’s report on the Australia’s outsourcing of its jobseeker system
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🚨New @cictar.bsky.social report today on profit extraction in Australia's employment services system 🚨 "privatised employment services [system] is structurally broken, and its prized federal contracts are being used to enrich millionaires and private equity firms" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Private firms profit as Australia's job system fails workers, report finds
A new report argues Australia's employment services system is failing jobseekers, while filling the pockets private equity and millionaires.
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Great Coverage in Cymru (Wales) of our new report, developed with TUC Cymru and Unison Cymru. cictar.org/news/cymru-m... Not for profit provision of care places in Cymru has plummeted in the last five years while the only significant growth in places has come from private investment firms
Extensive coverage in the Pakistan media of CICTAR's report on Pakistan's energy sector. Developed in partnership with public labour unions in Pakistan, Public Services International and FES. cictar.org/news/pakista...
Pakistan Media Coverage of CICTAR report — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Pakistan media coverage of CICTAR’s Pakistan energy report
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If #nzpol wants to do a deeper dive, there is a detailed breakdown of the Ambulance funding emergency in our recent report on the topic (developed by the wonderful @cictar.bsky.social): cictar.org/all-research...
‘Emergency’: CICTAR report on Saving New Zealand’s Ambulance Service — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Report arguing for an urgent shift to public ownership of Aotearoa New Zealand’s ambulance services
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"When you have such extremely poor distributions of wealth, you start to get quite bad social problems...we haven't reached this level of inequality before because it is so unhealthy on a societal level" www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines... CICTAR's Ed Miller quoted in RNZ piece on Elon Musk
Elon Musk only marginally less wealthy than all New Zealanders combined
"When you have such extreme or maldistributions of wealth ... you start to get quite bad social problems."
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www.mirror.co.uk/money/amazon... Great work from our comrades at Fair Tax Foundation. Backs up CICTAR's previous work: cictar.org/all-research... The ongoing lack of basic transparency measures calls into question the UK's commitment to tackling this type of abuse. @fairtaxfoundation.bsky.social
Amazon accused of 'systematic tax avoidance' after release of UK accounts
Accounts for one of online giant Amazon's biggest UK companies show it paid no corporation tax last year despite profits jumping by a quarter
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“This has nothing to do with ethical coffee sourcing,”...It’s about profit maximization through a tax loophole.” CICTAR's Jason Ward quoted in a great new article in Republik on Starbuck's 'ethical sourcing' from investigative reporter Karin Wenger: cictar.org/news/republi...
Republik: Starbuck’s Swiss tax trick — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Independent media outlet reports on Starbuck’s use of Switzerland to reduce its global tax bill. Including evidence from CICTAR.
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More coverage of CICTAR's latest report on the tax tricks played by some of Brazil's telecom giants: iclnoticias.com.br/economia/viv...
Vivo, Claro e TIM dão calote de R$ 11 bi em SP e sufocam cofres públicos com manobras fiscais - ICL Notícias
As três maiores operadoras de telecomunicações do Brasil — TIM, Vivo e Claro — acumulam R$ 11,1 bilhões em dívidas ativas no estado de São Paulo, utilizando artifícios jurídicos agressivos para evitar...
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'In Brazil, there is a culture of non-payment of this active debt, especially among large multinational companies...a loophole that is a cause of fiscal injustice in Brazil” Researcher Livi Gerbase quoted in the Brasil de Fato, piece on CICTAR's latest report. cictar.org/news/brasild...
Brasil de Fato: Telecoms companies Vivo, Claro and Tim ‘accentuate Brazilian tax injustice’ — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Brasil de Fato: Telecoms companies Vivo, Claro and Tim ‘accentuate Brazilian tax injustice’
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CICTAR's new report, in partnership with the tax inspectors union in Sao Paulo, Brazil: Three major telcoms companies have accumulated over R$ 11bn in 'tax debt' to the state government, while continuing to find other ways to reduce their tax bill. This is tax injustice! cictar.org/all-research...
Tax Justice and Telecommunications Companies — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
The Case of Tax Debt in São Paulo and Brazil
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"the very rich should focus less on philanthropy and more on paying their fair share of taxes...zero tax paid in six out of the 11 years” CICTAR's Jason Ward quoted in a Sydney Morning Herald profile of one of Australia's richest men (and an advert for wealth taxes) www.smh.com.au/national/he-...
He keeps ex-PMs on retainer, parties with Trump and dines with King Charles: this is Anthony Pratt
He’s one of Australia’s richest men, but this cardboard billionaire lived in a roadside hotel for two years while building his father’s American dream.
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CICTAR's Jason Ward said: "we’re losing significant tax revenue on our resources because of this transfer pricing situation... It’s within the same multinational structure. These are artificial structures.” ABC investigates Shell's use of Singapore as a tax haven cictar.org/news/abc/shell
Australian Gas giants in the spotlight — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
ABC reporting on Shell’s use of Singapore as a tax haven
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Great work from our comrades at Taxwatch UK Revealing how power works and the role of Switzerland in the global commodity trading and tax dodging system. See also, CICTAR's work on Starbucks and Glencore!
Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
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TaxWatch@taxwatch.bsky.social · 3mo agoOur new investigation in today's @theobserveruk.bsky.social More here: taxwatchuk.org/private-just... #tax #oil #energy #markets #iranwar
A must read. Covering a core problem in society. One that CICTAR (www.cictar.org) and our trade union allies have been attempting to unpick. Basic services being turned into ATM machines for the wealthy. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a... @psiglobalunion.bsky.social @hettieobrien.bsky.social
Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
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New blog on the 'Diálogos Do Sul' website, on Starbucks draining wealth from coffee producing countries and the need to tighten transfer pricing rules and demand transparency from multinationals that profit from Latin American coffee. Co-authored by CICTAR's Livi Gerbase: cictar.org/news/dialogo...
Blog: CAFÉ COM VODKA (Coffee with Vodka) — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Diálogos do Sul blog on Starbucks
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CICTAR's Jason Ward gives evidence to a 'fiery Senate inquiry' in Australia, debating export taxes on gas companies: cictar.org/news/newscom... Unsurprisingly, the big fossil fuel producers aren't keen.
CICTAR’s Jason Ward gives evidence to Australia’s Senate inquiry on gas export tax — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Coverage of Senate Committee inquiry into gas export taxes involving CICTAR
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