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'Indications that US companies are paying more abroad than at home aren’t surprising' said CICTAR's Jason Ward “The new data provides specific details to what we already knew...Most large US multinationals are huge global tax dodgers and major abusers of tax havens” cictar.org/news/bloombe...

Thrilled to see SEIU driving this much needed and long overdue multinational tax reform in California!!! @cictar.bsky.social has been pushing this for years!

so municipalities and regulatory bodies can hire No attention in the EP Housing report for real estate multinationals @cictar.bsky.social exposed how they benefit Role of EIB and other public banks mentioned but again condionalities missing www.epsu.org/article/publ... @epsu.bsky.social

Terrific piece of particular interest to pension fund watchers

"CICTAR recommends that tax authorities in countries where Starbucks operates support centers carefully analyze payments made between these units and the subsidiary in Switzerland." @cictar.bsky.social @coffeewatch.bsky.social reporterbrasil.org.br/2026/02/star...

Icymi As @sbworkersunited.org continue the fight for collective agreement, higher pay and better conditions, new report @cictar.bsky.social exposes Starbuck's profit-shifting to Switserland leaving hardly any taxes in coffee producing countries undermining funding public services @epsu.bsky.social

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Drawing on CICTAR’s recent report on financing of water and sanitation in Brazil, The Ecologist explains how Britain’s water privatisation concept is exported to Brazil, leading to the same stories of polluted rivers, collapsing ecosystems and communities left adrift: cictar.org/news/ecologi...

New CICTAR report shows Starbucks shifts global coffee profits to Switzerland via an 18% mark‑up, moving an estimated US$1.3B over a decade. Meanwhile, little support reaches farmers. A clear case of profit extraction from the Global South.

@cictar.bsky.social Starbucks report lands in Brazil's largest newspaper! Time for coffee-producing countries to tax the profits Starbucks shifts to Switzerland and to push for global tax reforms!!! (paywall & Portuguese warning)

💥 News zum #Steuerdumping bei #Starbucks: in einem frischen Bericht zeigt @cictar.bsky.social mit neuen Zahlen, wie der Konzern Gewinne von den Kaffeeplantagen in #Kolumbien und #Tansania ins Handelsbüro nach #Lausanne verschiebt. 👇 www.alliancesud.ch/de/starbucks...

Starbucks’ shifts profits to Switzerland, leaving scant revenue for coffee-producing countries. Read all about it in the new CICTAR report: cictar.org/all-research...

This government-hired debt collected paid $0 in corporate tax – despite revenue of more than $100 million. Tell Jim Chalmers: No tax, no pay getup.to/2ndvZfMC8Y8iQ @cictar.bsky.social

Seriously! Time for govt's to stop outsourcing, especially to tax dodging corporations, particularly private equity owned or multinationals... @cictar.bsky.social @epsu.bsky.social @cpsu.org.au

EU Should Use Tax Transparency For Public Bids, Report Says @epsu.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social @taxobservatory.bsky.social www.law360.com/tax-authorit...

Stay tuned. Tomorrow morning we publish @cictar.bsky.social report -addressing aggressive tax avoidance behaviour through EU Public procurement legislation Examples of tech companies No public funds to tax dodgers @taxobservatory.bsky.social @corporateeurope.org @steph-sejourne.bsky.social

And the report of @cictar.bsky.social on using EU Procurement to address tax avoidance is out Some companies including US Big tech try to win public contracts, loving workers' and people's tax money, but leaving us poorer by avoiding to pay fair share of taxes EU's procurement rules can ... 1/

"federal government should subject those bidding for public contracts to higher levels of transparency" Jason Ward, CICTAR: cictar.org/news/guardia...

Telco Services Australia, generated more than $185m in 2024-25 but reported no taxable income while having a $90m-plus govt contract. Jason Ward (CICTAR) said the business appeared to be structured in ways “to have avoided reporting and tax obligations in Australia”. cictar.org/news/guardia...

tuned here as we publish a @cictar.bsky.social briefing soon on how such companies could be forced to be more transparent when applying for public funds EU commissioner @steph-sejourne.bsky.social will have a choice to deal with tax avoidance and contribute to fairness @taxobservatory.bsky.social

Union busting and tax dodging, both disgusting! @cictar.bsky.social cictar.org/all-research...

'this reform will be Lula's greatest legacy of fiscal justice in his three terms as president and will remove the country from the shameful list of countries that do not tax dividends.' CICTAR's Livi Gerbase on Brazil's new tax reform here: cictar.org/news/brazilt... @psiglobalunion.bsky.social

3/ A escassez de água causada por mineradoras no Equador, com @ecuarauz.bsky.social; Incentivos fiscais para empresas privatizarem o saneamento, com Livi Gerbase do @cictar.bsky.social e benefícios fiscais para o agronegócio, que desmata o Cerrado, com @flavioguetto

Trump’s protection racket for the world’s largest corporate tax dodgers continues, this makes the G7’s Pillar 2 exemptions for US MNCs even more absurd! @cictar.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

CICTAR's Jason Ward makes an appearance during ABC's Media Watch less than approving analysis of the 'Back Australia' campaign by major corporations (at 4.45). www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...

Public country by country reporting, it's coming soon... The world's best multinational tax transparency reporting requirement! (best for now...) @cictar.bsky.social www.law360.com/tax-authorit...

“It’s a bit rich for the executives to get so much money when the company, which was initially a public enterprise … [doesn’t] contribute tax revenue from its profits back to its home country,” CICTAR's Jason Ward quoted in the Guardian, on CSL's tax payments cictar.org/news/guardia...

'This is a phoney use of a non-profit status in order to create private wealth. It absolutely makes no sense' CICTAR's Jason Ward talks to Australian National Broadcaster, ABC about the proposed tax games of private healthcare company Healthscope: cictar.org/news/abc/hea...

"If you had loved ones in an aged care home that was owned by men convicted of torturing more than a million chickens, you’d surely want to know" CICTAR's Jason Ward explains why Australia's move to transparency on business ownership is a good thing: cictar.org/news/canberr...

Another great podcast from Canadian podcaster Millennial Moron. This time with CICTAR's Jason Ward. Together they look at the private equity style behaviour of Canadian pension funds, and take a dive into the detail of the scandal surrounding the French care company ORPEA. cictar.org/news/podcast...

How much profit does Starbucks make in the US State of Oregon and how much does it pay in taxes to the state? We don’t know. Find out WHY we don't know in the new podcast from @ocppnews.bsky.social with CICTAR's Jason Ward: cictar.org/news/podcast...

You may have heard of corporations using #OffshoreTaxHavens to avoid taxes, but what does that actually look like? The latest episode of Policy for the People breaks it down @itep.org, @jasonward-cictar.bsky.social, @cictar.bsky.social

'The partial privatisation of our electricity system has prevented growth... A state of manufactured scarcity has delivered rising energy bills...and huge dividends to shareholders' New paper from NZCTU, with CICTAR research support, on problems of energy privatization: cictar.org/news/nzctu/p...

“Generally most Australian companies do the right thing... Most of the abuse we see comes from the big multinationals, and big US multinationals in particular" CICTAR's Jason Ward in the Guardian, commenting on the latest Aus Tax Office 'Corporate Transparency Report': cictar.org/news/guardia...

From Brazil, the Union of Water, Sewage, and Environmental Workers in the State of Bahia (SINDAE-Bahia) teamed up with @cictar.bsky.social to show how the privatization of their sewer systems are enriching a Canada-based private corporation, an "asset manager" called Brookfield.

📣 The price of going green: Tax gaps in the Energy Transition What are the real fiscal costs of going green? This panel explores the real fiscal costs of the energy transition. #ClimateForChange2025 📅 13–14 Oct | 📍 UNICAMP & online 🔗 Register: bit.ly/4jbO2zp

"The Canadian government must not bow to corporate pressure — or President Donald Trump — and instead ensure that profits earned in Canada are taxed in Canada" CICTAR's Jason Ward on why Canada should follow Australia on tax transparency in Canada's National Observer: cictar.org/news/canadao...

The World Bank, and other development agencies are using 'development' finance to promote privatized healthcare. Bloomberg has uncovered clear evidence of the negative impacts on patients and workers. CICTAR, our comrades at KMPDU,PSI and many others demand change: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"The link on tax & climate is essential - we need to make sure that the government policies in spending & in tax are oriented towards #ClimateJustice & not just doing greenwashing." Livi Gerbase @cictar.bsky.social #ClimateForChange2025 this October in Brazil + online👉https://bit.ly/4jbO2zp

“It is clear that most large US multinationals would prefer to keep the scale and location of massive profit shifting out of the public eye” CICTAR's Jason Ward comments on the lobbying of Trump by US businesses to bully Australia into dropping tax transparency laws. cictar.org/news/afr/usl...

Amazing coverage in the Brazlian media of our recent report on privatized water and sanitation services, in partnership with local union, SINDAE: cictar.org/news/brazilm... @psiglobalunion.bsky.social

"paying large sums...to win a sanitation concession auction has led to cases of corruption and high fees...France banned this practice in 1995. In Brazil, not only are we not prohibiting it, we are encouraging it with public funds” Livi Gerbase (CICTAR) New report here: cictar.org/all-research...

“My judgment on this is that this company is absolutely set up to never make taxable profit,” CICTAR's Jason Ward comments in the Guardian on related part transactions and 'loss making' operations at Adani in Australia: cictar.org/news/guardia...

Talking tax on TV (squatting @ MUA - Sydney Branch) calling out Trump for attempting to run a protection racket for giant US tax dodging multinationals @cictar.bsky.social

"Trump is essentially running a protection racket for larger US multinationals that most people already know are the most aggressive in dodging their tax obligations on...the vast profits they make in Australia and around the world." CICTAR's Jason Ward on ABC: cictar.org/news/abc/tru...

[ #política: NÓS CONTRA ELES - E AS EMPRESAS DELES] Livi Gerbase explica: "Apesar de receberem bilhões em incentivos fiscais federais não sabemos quanto as empresas pagam de impostos, nem seus investimentos ou empregados. Precisamos q multinacionais contribuam com o Brasil e paguem seus impostos" 👇

"Despite receiving billions in federal tax incentives, we don’t know how much tax they pay in Brazil". CICTAR's Livi Gerbase quoted in Sumaúma's excellent report on the Brazilian tax exemptions on destructive global agribusiness. Written with support from CICTAR: cictar.org/news/sumauma...