UK Govt taskforce to tackle scams during pandemic

Ofcom research finds 45m people received at least one fraudulent message in last 3 months. The relaunch of the government’s Joint Fraud Taskforce is accompanied by new charters committing the sectors used by criminals to actions to protect people’s...

How poor countries finance the rich?

Each year hundreds of billions of dollars leave developing countries and land in the coffers of rich countries like Switzerland. This trend “contradicts the neoclassic economic theories, according to which capital should naturally circulate from rich countries to...

EU plans new rules against tax avoidance

The tax discussion at the plenary session of the EU parliament was added to the agenda after reports this week on a large leak of tax data, known collectively as the “Pandora Papers”, which showed how the rich and powerful continue to systematically use...