Tax Justice

Tax justice in Pakistan

27 July 2024 - by Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee

Press statement Abolish taxation from electricity bills Reduce the price of electricity to 10 Rupees a unit Impose a super tax on the rich The recent expansion of indirect taxation in Pakistan has led to a hike in the prices of essential (...)
Britain’s royal rip-off

7 May 2023 - by Michael Roberts

Today in Britain King Charles III will be crowned in a ‘coronation’. All the other remaining monarchies in Europe (Scandinavia, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain) don’t bother with a coronation, but the British monarchy has had a much more prominent (...)
Debt Status in Nepal

9 December 2022 - by Sudhir Shrestha

CADTM delegate at the 9th CADTM South Asia meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka (2nd to 4th of december 2022), Sudhir Shrestha detailed the situation of Nepal’s external public debt. In this country of nearly 30 million people, 34% of the budget is (...)
One year after the ’Pandora Papers’, we look back at Éric Toussaint’s testimony before the Ecuadorian National Assembly

Éric Toussaint (CADTM): “The president is outside the law. Guillermo Lasso directly or indirectly owns companies in tax havens”

1 November 2022 - by Eric Toussaint, Fátima Martín

“The President is outside the law. Guillermo Lasso owned and still directly or indirectly owns companies in tax havens”. So said Eric Toussaint, spokesperson for the CADTM, before the Committee on Constitutional Guarantees, Human Rights, (...)
The UK government’s economic policies under...

1 October 2022 - by Michael Roberts

The UK government’s economic policies under new PM Liz Truss have caused a stir among, not only leftists, but also among mainstream economists. The new government says the solution to the stagnation and failure of British capitalist production (...)
Moderna’s free ride

7 October 2021 - by Vincent Kiezebrink

A leaked contract between Moderna and the European Commission indicates that the company’s vaccine profits will end up in some of the world’s worst tax havens. The contract signed with Moderna shows that it intends to receive payment for its EU (...)