COFFERS made it to the headlines of the Dutch newspaper Trouw. The new money laundering estimates made by the Utrecht COFFERS team in The Netherlands found it to be €16 billion. This accounts for 2.5% on average of the Dutch GDP in the last few years. “The danger for the Dutch economy is that criminals […]

On S aturday, March 9, 2019, COFFERS project coordinator Prof. Dr. Brigitte Unger was asked to comment by the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant on the money laundering scandal of Troika Bank. Regarding the alleged wrongdoing of some Dutch banks funneling billions of Euros through Russia using Lithuanian banks, Dr. Unger said, “It is a game of […]

On March 4 and 5, 2019, COFFERS project leader Brigitte Unger organized a workshop on tax morale and compliance, and welcomed at Utrecht University two well renowned professors in the field of tax evasion, economist James Alm and psychologist Erich Kirchler.  On the first day of this workshop, after an introduction to the project, the […]

On December 4 and 5, 2018, COFFERS project coordinator Brigitte Unger organized a workshop to tackle the pressing issue of tax gaps, and managed to invite EUROSTAT, DG TAXUD, and IBDF. During this workshop, “The 4-5 tiers of tax gaps” theory conceived by Richard Murphy was presented and different ways in which his model could […]

Leyla Ates and Burçak Bal Yalçin organized a seminar on the “International Automatic Exchange of Information in Tax Matters in collaboration with the Turkish Capital Markets Association (TCMA) on February 26, 2019. The TCMA is a professional organisation with public institution status that consists of 223 resident and non-resident members of financial institutions. The seminar […]

On March 6th, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) welcomed stakeholder inputs on key questions regarding the substance and design of these future policies, set to shape the global tax regime for years to come. In response, a group of academic political scientists, including several COFFERS researchers, sent a comment letter to the […]

Reform would be little more than additional VAT © Charlie Bibby/FT Martin Wolf is right that the world’s corporation tax systems need major reform (“The world needs to change the way it taxes companies”, Opinion, March 7). He is entirely incorrect about the required solution. Corporation tax has three purposes. One is to protect the […]

Thomas Rixen participated in a High Level Policy Seminar on “Taxation Governance in Global Markets: Challenges, Risks and Opportunities” that took place at the OECD on February 18 and 19, 2019 and was organized by Pascal Saint-Amans (Director, OECD, Center of Tax Policy and Administration), Jean Pisani-Ferry and George Papaconstantinou (both European University Institute, Florence)

Petr Janský took part in the European Parliament’s TAX3 committee public hearing on “The evaluation of the Tax Gap”. The video and other documents are available here

In the report “Effective Tax Rates of Multinational Enterprises in the EU” for the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament our colleague Petr Janský sheds new light on the taxes paid by multinational enterprises. German Süddeutsche Zeitung, Austrian Der Standard, French France 24 or Czech Euro.cz reported about the new research findings.